Africa Health Communications Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 24, 2025

Are you a journalist, researcher, public well being knowledgeable, or educational keen about bettering well being communication in Africa? Applications are open for the Africa Health Communications Fellowship 2025.

This fellowship is designed for professionals who wish to improve their expertise and drive significant change in public well being via efficient communications. Apply to be part of a community of changemakers devoted to strengthening well being communication throughout the continent.

The dissemination of well being info in Africa faces important challenges as a result of gaps in well being reporting expertise and the efficient communication of well being analysis. Recognising the pivotal function that communications performs in public well being consciousness and the interpretation of well being analysis into public information, fraycollege, is internet hosting a novel fellowship programme for journalists and well being consultants to reinvigorate the protection of well being and growth tales in Africa.

The 9-month fellowship will assist two collaborative cohorts comprising well being journalists and well being sector consultants providing entry to bespoke coaching workshops, sources and grant assist geared toward bettering the standard of well being reporting in Africa.

Benefits

• A sequence of well being communications workshops delivered nearly.
• E-course on well being reporting/communication.
• In-person convention in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Data stipend.
• Story manufacturing grant.

Eligibility

• Open to Health journalists, consultants from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Ethiopia;
• Journalists ought to have some expertise in reporting on well being points and ideally work for a publication or media home;
• A ‘health expert’ might be a scientist, researcher, public well being official, coverage maker, neighborhood well being employee, educational, civil society campaigner or activist.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Africa Health Communications Fellowship.