World Health Orgranisation (WHO) Epidemiology Fellowship Programme 2025

Deadline: December 5, 2024

Applications for the World Health Orgranisation (WHO) Epidemiology Fellowship Programme 2025 at the moment are open. The Epidemiology Fellowship Programme within the EMR (Epi Fellows), is designed to construct the capability of younger epidemiologists from low- and middle-income international locations within the area underneath the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network Strategy. Fellows will likely be assigned to the WHO nation workplaces of their home international locations for a six-month interval. The initiative is collectively being carried out by WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) and WHO UHC/Health Systems (UHS) at WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.

The fellowship goals to reinforce their abilities, information, and understanding of nationwide, regional, and world outbreak administration by partaking them in WHO technical applications.

The programme has the next targets:

• Provide a framework for younger epidemiologists from low- and middle-income international locations within the EMR, designed to reinforce their academic expertise via sensible, hands-on assignments involving well being sector together with Ministry of Health and National Public well being Institutes or Centers for Disease Control.
• To present younger professionals with direct publicity to the work of WHO, an OPPORTUNITY to amass sensible expertise in WHO, by working underneath the direct supervision of skilled WHO employees.

Duties

Under the supervision of a technical professional within the respective space, fellows are assigned a venture primarily based on agreed phrases of references and according to their abilities set. These phrases of references usually embrace some or the entire following obligations:

• Review literature and conduct literature surveys.
• Undertake internet analysis and knowledge assortment and evaluation on particular topic space.
• Organize and analyze knowledge.
• Participate within the improvement of instruments and steerage paperwork.
• Assist in drafting, formatting and modifying coverage briefs, device kits, guides/manuals, hand-outs, brochures and reviews.
• Assist in organizing workshops, conferences, conferences, occasions.
• Participate in on-going departmental tasks.

Benefits

• Entitlements embrace month-to-month fellowship stipend and official journey to responsibility station.

Eligibility

• Only candidates from nationals of the next member states of the Eastern Mediterranean Region will likely be thought of: Afghanistan, Djibouti Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Sudan. 
• Candidates beneath 35 years outdated are eligible for the programme.
• Applicant ought to have a postgraduate diploma in an space of research relevance to public well being, outbreak administration and epidemiology.
• Fluency in English (studying, writing and talking).
• Knowledge of French or Arabic is an asset.
• Depending on the realm of curiosity, 2 years of the beneath expertise is required:
  • Experience in analysis and/or in drafting reviews
  • Experience within the topic space via tutorial work or analysis 
  • Field and/or growing nation expertise 
  • Experience with knowledge evaluation, statistical packages and curiosity within the design of graphical show and evaluation of well being data in a global comparative perspective, comparable to for well being system efficiency evaluation.
  • More particular expertise comparable to specialised pc programmes. 
  • In addition, fellows must be acquainted with generally used pc programmes, comparable to Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Knowledge of specialised pc programmes, for instance, statistical software program comparable to XLStat could also be a bonus

Application

The software deadline is December 5, 2024. Only candidates underneath critical consideration will likely be contacted.

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For extra data, go to WHO Fellowship.