Nigeria Malaria Modelling Fellowship (MMF) 2025 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Nigeria Malaria Modelling Fellowship (MMF) 2025. The Nigeria Malaria Modelling Fellowship (MMF) is an initiative to construct the mathematical modelling capability of public well being professionals in Nigeria. The Fellowship will expose members to a complete curriculum that features core modelling content material, in-depth information of malaria epidemiology together with transmission dynamics, and adjunct modules essential to enhancing their careers and equipping them with in-demand modelling competence.

Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Fellowship is a collaborative effort between Corona Management Systems (CMS), National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The fellowship aims are

• To improve the variety of doctoral and put up-doctoral degree skilled mathematical modelers with malaria experience primarily based at Nigerian establishments by August 2025
• To improve the capability of the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) on modelling approaches as a instrument that may assist strategic planning and analysis by August 2025
• Increase the capability of the Nigeria Field Epidemiology Training Programme (NFETP) to offer modelling fellowship by August 2025.

Funding

• The MMF is absolutely funded, and fellows for this Cohort will get logistical help to attend in each bodily and on-line periods, with particular assist for feminine fellows with youngsters below 18 months.

Eligibility

• Only feminine candidates are inspired to apply.
• Master’s diploma or larger within the area of public well being, epidemiology (together with environmental, parasite, and veterinary epidemiology and associated research), biostatistics, bioinformatics, and utilized arithmetic.
• Specialised coaching in malaria and different infectious illness management programmes, particularly Residents and Graduates from accredited Field Epidemiology coaching programmes.
• Specialised coaching in quantitative knowledge evaluation is desired.
• A present affiliation to a Nigerian public establishment working in a single well being – human well being, animal well being, and surroundings.
• At least 3 years’ skilled expertise.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to speak successfully in verbal and written English.
• Demonstrable downside-fixing abilities and talent to work successfully with minimal supervision.

Desirable Experience

• Post-Docs and Junior Lecturers in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
• Public Health/Community Medicine Resident Doctors in Training.
• Data administration specialists from the Malaria programme, National Stop Transmission of Polio cohorts, Rapid Response Teams, or different emergency preparedness and response groups.
• Monitoring and Evaluation employees with experience in quantitative knowledge evaluation, working in Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) working throughout the one well being ecosystem.
• If profitable, earlier than enrolment, candidate’s establishments have to be prepared to formally launch the candidates for scheduled bodily coaching periods that may happen in FCT, Abuja.

Application

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For extra info, go to Nigeria Malaria Modelling Fellowship.