Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) PhD Fellowship 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) PhD Fellowship 2026. As part of its improvements, CARTA provides a collaborative doctoral coaching program in public and inhabitants well being. This program was developed in response to the good challenges confronted by Africa’s establishments of upper schooling in coaching and retaining the following technology of teachers in the area. Specifically, CARTA goals to help PhD candidates who will develop into future analysis leaders inside and past their establishments.

In 2026, CARTA will provide 22 awards to profitable candidates. The multi-disciplinary CARTA PhD fellowship is open to workers members of CARTA African associate establishments, in any self-discipline, who’re in conducting their PhD analysis on matters related to the broad fields of public and inhabitants well being.

Benefits

The fellowship will provide the next types of help:

• A sequence of structured coaching packages to capacitate the fellows in navigating their doctoral journey.
• A laptop computer.
• A modest stipend for 28 months solely.
• Research funds (a most of $10,500 might be allotted relying on accessible price range) to help the fellows in implementing their proposed analysis undertaking and interesting the related stakeholders and group.

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a Master’s diploma in a related discipline.
• Applicants for this program MUST be bona fide instructing or analysis workers at one of many taking part African establishments. Respective establishments would want to:
  • Commit to proceed paying fellows’ salaries (or equal) as school members.
  • Provide a supportive work setting that enables fellows the pliability to totally take part in CARTA-organized actions and to deal with their PhD research.
  • Commit to waiving the fellows’ charges after they register for their PhD at their establishment of employment. Fellows are inspired to hunt supplemental funding to cowl extra prices of their doctoral program.
• Applicants needs to be dedicated to contributing in direction of strengthening capability at their establishments.
• Applicants’ PhD analysis proposals should be associated to public and inhabitants well being.
• Fellowships are solely open to people who haven’t but registered for a PhD or are in the very early phases (first yr) of the PhD program and have but to outline their analysis proposal. Fellows whose analysis proposal is already permitted, looking for help to finish a PhD or safe a further PhD, are NOT eligible to apply.
• Prior admission right into a PhD program is just not required for application, however awards are contingent on such admission being obtained at one of many taking part African universities inside the first 12 months of the fellowship.
• Applicants should decide to participation in the residential Joint Advanced Seminars (JAS) and interact in inter-seminar actions designed to maintain fellows actively engaged and in continuous communication with friends and mentors.
• Men should be beneath the age of 40 years to be eligible, and ladies beneath the age of 45 years.

Eligible Institutions

Applicants from the establishments listed beneath are eligible to apply:

• African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
• Agincourt Health and Population Unit, South Africa
• Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania
• Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi and Associates (by means of Kamuzu)
• Makerere University, Uganda
• Moi University, Kenya
• Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
• University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• University of Nairobi, Kenya
• University of Rwanda, Rwanda
• University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Application

• Contact the CARTA focal particular person at your establishment to debate your curiosity and procure application supplies.
• At this level, candidates are anticipated to submit their application types and reference letters by August 20, 2025, at 23:59 hours EAT, by way of the REDCap system. You can entry the application here. Note: Applicants ought to deal with acquiring the required paperwork and securing institutional help; analysis proposals could also be additional revised and refined in the course of the full application.
• CARTA associate establishments will nominate candidates who might be invited for the complete application course of.
• Only those that are nominated by their establishments might be invited to submit a full application which should be acquired by September 21, 2025, by means of the application system (solely shared with invited candidates).

The full application consists of:

• A full analysis proposal
• Updated CV
• Letter of help from their establishment committing to change the workloads for the fellows to allow them to totally take part in CARTA-organized actions pertaining to their PhD program and to waive the fellows’ charges if they’re registered on the establishment the place they’re employed.
• Three timed duties:
  • Critical overview of a scientific article
  • Numeracy activity
  • Critical considering activity
• Two free on-line programs:
  • Understanding plagiarism course
  • Basic Health Research Ethics course

For extra info, go to CARTA PhD Fellowship.