AstraZeneca Young Health Programme Impact Fellowship to Attend One Young World Summit 2025 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 17, 2025

Are you a passionate younger chief actively concerned in advocating for larger well being fairness inside your group? Are you main tasks inside a registered non-revenue organisation? Are you prepared to be part of a world community with different younger people who find themselves creating optimistic change for the longer term? Apply now for the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme Impact Fellowship 2025.

AstraZeneca is in search of passionate, pushed younger leaders to be part of their 2025 Young Health Programme (YHP) Impact Fellowship. This Fellowship focuses on supporting younger advocates to create actionable change relating to well being fairness of their communities by offering funding, studying and growth alternatives, and participation within the One Young World Summit.

AstraZeneca is in search of younger leaders from all corners of the world who’re dedicated to advocacy for well being fairness in not less than one of many following focus areas:

• Non-communicable ailments (NCD) prevention: Working to stop NCDs amongst younger folks by selling insurance policies that allow wholesome existence, with a selected deal with guaranteeing that efforts are inclusive and accessible to all. Relevant NCD danger issue areas embody vitamin, tobacco & alcohol management, bodily exercise and air high quality enchancment.
• Rare illness: Advocating for equitable entry to care and enabling coverage modifications for folks dwelling with uncommon ailments.

Benefits

• Full delegate entry to the One Young World Summit 2025 in Munich, Germany 3 – 6 November 2025.
• Return air journey type your home nation to Munich (flights in economic system solely). Flights will likely be organized by the OYW delegate providers staff.
• Private lodge lodging in Munich checking in on 2 November and testing on 7 November. Hotel lodging will likely be organized by the OYW delegate providers staff.
• Catering which incorporates:
  • Dinner on 2 November
  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner from 3-6 November
  • Breakfast on 7 November
• Reimbursement of bills incurred whereas travelling to and from Munich up to a most of £250.
• Reimbursement of the Germany customer visa application payment of roughly £75.
• Return switch from Munich International Airport to lodge by way of public transport.
• Access to AstraZeneca’s YHP Impact Fellowship. The Fellowship will present a mixture of dwell and self-taught studying and growth alternatives all year long to assist Fellows scale their impression. This contains, however shouldn’t be restricted to:
  • Access to Networks: Participation within the One Young World Summit 2025 and Ambassador Network and entry to a YHP Alumni group of different younger changemakers who’re all keen about youth well being. Selected people may also be part of AstraZeneca’s Young Health Programme Advisory Board which brings collectively passionate younger leaders to speed up political motion on performing early on NCDs and champion coverage options.
  • Access to Development: Structured studying and growth choices to allow you to scale your impression, together with each self-directed and dwell studying. This contains entry to the One Young World Academy, an award-successful MBA-Essentials programme, {and professional} coaching.
  • Access to Funding: Each chosen Fellow will obtain a grant of both US $10,000 or US $50,000 (if chosen because the Lead2030 Challenge winner for SDG3) from AstraZeneca, via their non-revenue organisation. Fellows are anticipated to use the grant to implement a mission centered on bettering youth well being inside their group.

Eligibility

• Aged 18 – 30.
• Proficiency in English (talking, studying, writing).
• Nationals of all international locations are eligible to apply for this scholarship.
• Ability to totally take part in-particular person on the One Young World Summit (2-7 November 2025) in Munich, Germany.
• Willingness to share insights, assist co-create commitments to motion, foster partnerships, and function ambassadors of AstraZeneca’s well being fairness and YHP work the place applicable.
• Access to the web and a tool (pc, telephone) that may permit them to take part in dwell, on-line Fellowship classes – this won’t be supplied to Fellows.
• Applicants should be founders or leaders of registered non-revenue organisations that meet the next standards:
  • Have been registered and operational for not less than 3 full years.
  • To be thought of to obtain a $10,000 grant: have had a complete reported earnings within the final monetary yr of greater than USD$10,000 and fewer than USD$1,000,000.
  • To be thought of to obtain a $50,000 grant: Have had a complete reported earnings within the final monetary yr of greater than USD$100,000 and fewer than USD$2,000,000.
• Are ‘funding-ready’ and in a position to present applicable documentation (in English) to AstraZeneca’s grant-making accomplice on the Charities Aid Foundation to confirm their organisation’s charitable standing, governance and monetary state of affairs. This course of normally takes 3-6 months to full and can start as soon as Fellows are chosen. If the required documentation shouldn’t be out there, it might impression the power of the organisation to obtain the grant and Fellowship could also be withdrawn. They purpose for all grants to be dispersed by October 2025, and tasks to begin between October 2025 and April 2026. All tasks should finish by December 2026.
• Operate in underserved communities.
• Applicants should be in a position to suggest a 6-12 month mission that:
  • Focuses on stopping NCDs amongst younger folks by selling insurance policies that allow wholesome existence and equitable entry to healthcare data and providers, with a selected deal with guaranteeing that efforts are inclusive and accessible to all.
  • Projects can embody influencing coverage change inside a rustic or group to profit younger folks dwelling with uncommon ailments or tackling the 5 main NCD danger elements / behavioural danger areas frequent amongst younger folks (tobacco use, bodily inactivity, dangerous use of alcohol, unhealthy diets and air air pollution) which contribute to NCDs (cardiovascular ailments, persistent respiratory ailments, most cancers, kind II diabetes).
  • Focuses on clear coverage targets with an in depth advocacy technique that’s primarily led by, and for the advantage of, younger folks.
  • Is inclusive and non-discriminatory in its method working with marginalised or weak younger folks.
  • Working with underserved communities.
  • Is measurable and is ready to show impression. Organisations should present an finish-of-yr and finish-of-grant report together with, however not restricted to, whole variety of younger folks reached instantly, insurance policies influenced/outcome, classes discovered and impression.
  • Begins after October 2025 and will likely be accomplished by December 2026.
• Projects that do any of the next are not eligible for funding:
  • Discriminate or primarily promote political or spiritual viewpoints to their beneficiaries.
  • Use the funds to make grants or monetary donations to different organisations or people.
  • Be primarily a medical course/s.
  • Provide bursaries, tuition, scholarships or charges for an present course.
  • Provide remedy, promote medicines, present medical recommendation or pay for medicines.
  • Benefit AstraZeneca’s industrial enterprise.
  • Last greater than 12 months.
  • Have already taken place or are deliberate to begin earlier than November 2025.
  • Be funded greater than 50% by one other supply, except for the AstraZeneca Grant.
• Selected people are anticipated to totally take part within the YHP Impact Fellowship and One Young World Summit. Any misrepresentation, or incapability to totally take part and full verification in a well timed method could jeopardise their Scholarship advantages and grant eligibility.
• If, after choice, the screening and verification course of determines that the organisations don’t meet the eligibility necessities as outlined above, they are going to be unable to obtain the Grant and the person’s participation within the YHP Impact Fellowship and OYW Summit could also be withdrawn.

Application

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For extra data, go to One Young World Summit.