African Epidemic Service (AES) Fellowship Programme 2025 – Epidemiology Track – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the African Epidemic Service (AES) Fellowship Programme 2025. Africa CDC has developed a continental African Epidemic Service (AES), an elite workforce hosted and directed by the African Union. The African Epidemic Service has three tracks specifically, Epidemiology, Laboratory Leadership and Public well being informatics.

The African Epidemic Service – Epidemiology monitor is a two-yr competency primarily based utilized epidemiology coaching program that goals to strengthen the illness prevention and response capability of African Union member states. The first cohort of the AES – Epidemiology monitor commenced their coaching on August 2024 and they’re presently present process their area coaching of their respective host websites. The program is now accepting application for the Second cohort of the African Epidemic Service – Epidemiology monitor.

Programme Details

The fellowship embody a two yr coaching in utilized epidemiology, with three months in school coaching in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and 21 months of utilized coaching on a website hosted by an African Union Member State. The didactic coaching will likely be delivered in all African Union languages, whereas host website actions will likely be carried out within the language of the Member State.

Successful candidates will take part in experiential core studying of actions that embody, however not restricted to: information evaluation, surveillance system analysis, and outbreak investigation. The AES Epidemiology fellow may have the help of an professional supervisor. Fellows will likely be additionally matched with skilled public well being mentors who will present help all through the fellowship programme.

Benefits

• Africa CDC will present all studying and improvement supplies and meet all prices related to the fellowship, together with journey-associated prices (e.g., airfare, lodging, incidentals), stipends, {hardware}, and insurance coverage. Fellows will likely be supported to make sure that they’ve the related software program and adequate Internet connectivity for on-line studying.

Eligibility

Applicants for the Fellowship should:

• be residents of an African Union Member State;
• Be a youth as outlined by the African Union, i.e., a person below the age of 35.
• have been employed on the time of application in an African nation with permission from a authorities establishment to attend the 2 years coaching, with proper to return publish coaching;
• have a graduate diploma from an accredited faculty of human medication, veterinary medication, or different doctoral-degree coaching in nursing, environmental sciences, or different public well being area;
• possess an MPH or equal diploma with coursework in epidemiology or quantitative analysis strategies; and
• have no less than three years of current full-time public well being publish graduate expertise in an African nation;
• Have a purposeful data of the any of the African Union working languages and skill to learn and write technical medical and epidemiological texts.

Application

All functions should be submitted utilizing the web application kind. Incomplete functions is not going to be thought-about. All candidates should present the next data:

• A nationwide passport from an African Union Member State.
• An official letter of help with permission from a authorities establishment to attend the 2-yr coaching programme with the appropriate to return publish coaching.
• Letters of advice from two respected skilled referees.
• An official diploma and pupil copy transcripts of your bachelor’s diploma. (The official transcript will likely be requested out of your college upon acceptance to this program.)
• An official diploma and pupil copy transcripts of your grasp’s diploma. (The official transcript will likely be requested out of your college upon acceptance to this program.)
• Evidence of current full-time public well being publish graduate expertise in an African Country.
• Brief curriculum vitae (2 pages most).
• Motivation assertion (2 pages most), outlining your formal training, work expertise and why this program can be a superb match, and additional outlining how this coaching will influence your nation.
• Optional: Evidence of extra related {qualifications}.

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For extra data, go to African Epidemic Service (AES) Fellowship.