The University of Toronto 2026/2027 Mastercard Foundation Doctor of Public Health Scholarships (Fully Funded) – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: October 10, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026/2027 University of Toronto Mastercard Foundation Doctor of Public Health Scholarships. The Africa Health Collaborative is happy to announce the beginning of the 2026-2027 Mastercard Foundation graduate scholarship recruitment on the University of Toronto. This doctoral scholarship alternative is open to latest alumni and graduating college students at  Africa Health Collaborative partner universities. These graduate scholarships will likely be awarded to people who’ve demonstrated educational excellence in related health-related disciplines and a private dedication to going again and giving again to their home nations.

Eligibility Requirements:

Applicants MUST meet the next 5 eligibility standards:

• Be a citizen and at present residing in a Sub-Saharan African nation.
• Have graduated from a accomplice establishment of the Africa Health Collaborative (listed here) and haven’t but began graduate research on the doctoral degree.
• Demonstrate educational excellence and management qualities throughout his/her undergraduate and grasp’s years.
• Be academically admissible to the sponsored graduate program listed above.
• Demonstrate a need and dedication to return home for the final two years of this system to contribute to the continued financial development and social improvement in Africa.

Benefits

• This complete scholarship presents full monetary assist for tuition, journey bills, housing, meals, books, and different bills for the length of the skilled program. In addition to monetary assist, students will likely be supplied with a complete assist community to make sure educational success.
• Furthermore, every scholar can have the chance to have interaction in orientation classes, which is able to be sure that they’re totally engaged from the very starting of their graduate research, and which is able to ease their transition to life as a graduate pupil within the metropolis of Toronto, and to their preparedness for return to their home nation.

Graduate Program
Up to three Mastercard Foundation Doctoral scholarships will likely be awarded for the 2026-2027 educational 12 months for the next graduate program: Doctor of Public Health.

When making ready your application, please make sure you meet all this system necessities. Keep in thoughts that your motivation for pursuing this subject, alongside along with your profession objectives and dedication to contributing to Africa’s future, will play a key function in figuring out your eligibility for the scholarship.

How to Apply:

Step One
Prospective candidates should first seek the advice of the admission necessities for the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program of study. If you meet the tutorial necessities of this program, please observe by to step two.

Step Two

Register and attend one of the three digital data classes and the (elective) Q&A session. Please be aware that to be eligible for the Mastercard Foundation Doctor of Public Health Scholarship and have your application thought-about, attendance at one (1) info session is necessary:

Info Session 1:

September third at 10-11 am EST | 2-3 pm GMT I 4-5 pm CAT I 5-6 pm EAT

Register

Info Session 2:

September eleventh at 8 -9:30 am EST I 12-1:30 pm GMT I 2-3:30 pm GMT I 3-4:30 pm EAT

Register

Info Session 3:

September twenty fifth at 9-10:30 am EST I 1-2:30 pm GMT I 3-4:30 pm GMT I 4-5:30 pm EAT

Register

Q&A Session

October 1st at 10-11 am EST | 2-3 pm GMT I 4-5 pm CAT I 5-6 pm EAT

Register

Step Three

Complete the Mastercard Foundation Doctoral Scholarship application. The hyperlink to the application type will likely be shared on the upcoming data classes. Deadline for submission of the finished application is October 10, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST (Toronto time). If your application for the Mastercard Foundation scholarship meets all standards and is authorized by the Scholarship Admission Committee, you’ll obtain an e-mail to maneuver ahead to step three. These notifications to profitable candidates will likely be made by November 1, 2025.

Step Four
If you might be shortlisted for the Mastercard Foundation Doctoral Scholarship, you may be invited to finish a program application to the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program from the University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, which is due by November 22, 2025. The Dalla Lana School of Public Health will inform you as to the particular necessities of their division and give you subsequent dates for the submission of supplementary info. This is a web-based course of that can require you to add paperwork to your application. Please observe the directions when you obtain them.

Please direct any inquiries to the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health: [email protected]

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Visit the Official Webpage of the University of Toronto Mastercard Foundation Doctor of Public Health Scholarships.