Chevening Healthcare, Health Policy, and Health Reform Fellowship 2026-2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Chevening Healthcare, Health Policy, and Health Reform Fellowship 2026-2027. The British Embassy and British Consulates-General in China work intently with a lot of key Chinese establishments and prime UK universities to help the skilled improvement of mid-profession fellows in key thematic sectors all through distinct analysis fellowship programmes.

The Chevening Healthcare, Health Policy, and Health Reform Fellowship is hosted on the University of Oxford. The fellowship is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Programme Structure

The goal of this six-month fellowship is to supply mid-profession professionals the OPPORTUNITY to spend time on the University of Oxford as a visiting fellow, researching an agreed subject in well being and associated social coverage that aligns with the UK authorities’s Global Health Framework. Fellows are suggested that their study ought to profit instantly from their time in Oxford and will contribute strongly to dialogue across the ongoing well being and social coverage reform in China.

Fellows are anticipated to finish a paper of as much as 10,000 phrases in English. Research matters ought to align with the three key targets outlined within the Global Health Framework or any of the next matters that help UK and China key collaboration areas in well being coverage:

• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the ‘One Health’ strategy
• Infectious illness surveillance, prevention, and management
• Accelerating the lifecycle of the event of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics for brand spanking new and rising illnesses
• Climate change and well being
• Ageing populations and ‘healthy ageing’
• Non-communicable illnesses

During their time in Oxford, fellows are hosted by the Department for Continuing Education. They obtain each tutorial and pastoral help from the Oxford college, and shall be entitled to attend open lectures, seminars, and different tutorial actions on the identical foundation as different visiting fellows.

Benefits

• Full programme charges for Oxford Visiting Scholar Status*.
• Living bills at some stage in the fellowship.
• Return economic system airfare from China to the UK.
• Allowance package deal for analysis-associated actions.
• Access to a programme of cultural occasions and actions organised by the FCDO and the Chevening Secretariat.

* Should any Visiting Fellow want to enrol or take part in a course, exercise, or convention exterior of what’s obtainable to Visiting Fellows, they are going to be individually answerable for any and all associated charges/prices.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Chevening Health Fellowship, it’s essential to:

• Agree to stick to all related tips and expectations for the programme.
• Be a citizen of China, at the moment dwell within the nation, and intend to return to China on the finish of the interval of study.
• Hold a postgraduate (PG) degree qualification (or equal skilled coaching or expertise in a related space) on the time of application.
• Significant and significant skilled expertise of 5 plus years of employment, or at the moment enrolled PhD candidate (PhD should not be with a UK/EU or USA college).
• Applicants who’ve beforehand obtained monetary profit from an HMG-funded scholarship or fellowship are eligible to apply after a interval of 5 years following the completion of their first HMG-funded award and are required to exhibit their profession development from that time.
• Not maintain twin nationality the place one nationality is British (aside from for nationals exempt from this requirement listed within the Chevening Guidance for Applicants).
• Not be an worker, a former worker, or relative* of an worker of His Majesty’s Government, or have been throughout the final two years from the opening of Chevening purposes (together with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, or a sponsoring UK college.
• Employees, former workers, or kinfolk of an worker of Chevening Partner organisations are eligible to apply, but when the employment passed off throughout the final two years, you can not obtain a Chevening Partner Award from the organisation from which you’re employed, beforehand labored, or are affiliated with via kinfolk.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Chevening Fellowship.