The AREF Excell Malaria Researcher & Leadership Development Programme 2026 for African Researchers (50,000 USD in project funding)

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Application Deadline:  fifteenth October, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 AREF Excell Malaria Researcher & Leadership Development Programme. AREF’s Excell malaria programme will allow 18 particular person researchers from three collaborating establishments to construct robust analysis careers, empower wonderful groups, win analysis funds, work collaboratively, have interaction with analysis customers – and so make a good larger influence on enhancing well being and saving lives. We will help companion establishments to embed structural modifications that can improve their long-term capacity to help rising well being analysis leaders, with as much as 50,000 USD over two years out there to help proposed capacity-building initiatives. 

Eligibility Requirements

• An worker of an African establishment with a big and particular function in Malaria analysis. 
• A nationwide of an African state 
• 2-8 full years of energetic post-PhD analysis expertise; or a clinician and not using a PhD with each an MD and analysis grasp’s and 4-8 years of energetic analysis expertise. 
• Not already having participated in earlier Excell programme.  
• AREF is eager to recruit gifted researchers specializing in malaria analysis from a broad vary of approaches, together with laboratory, medical, behavioural, social, public well being, well being techniques, and environmental and mathematical sciences. Their analysis have to be directed in direction of attaining higher well being outcomes in Africa and present alignment with their nationwide Malaria analysis technique, the place relevant. 

Programme define 

In the 2 years from January 2026 to January 2028, the programme will embrace: 

• Opening and shutting conferences  
• Project funding as much as 50,000 USD to embed coverage and follow 
• Three experiential workshops  
• Coaching and mentorship for institutional leads 
• Supplementary webinars and on-line assets 
• Monitoring and Evaluation of initiatives to incorporate baseline and end-of-programme assessments 
• Collaborative initiatives and networking 

For More Information:

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