Africa CDC Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Fellowship 2026 for mid-career African public health professionals (Fully Funded)

Application Deadline: 31 March 2026

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 Africa CDC Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Fellowship. Combating the a number of public health threats throughout the African continent requires adequately educated and outfitted workforce. The Africa Health Security and Sovereignty (AHSS) Agenda has known as for self-sustaining health safety program that features workforce improvement. The name is in alignment with the imaginative and prescient of the African Union (AU) and its want to construct capability in public health via medium- and long-term coaching in recognized areas of want.

The institution of the six-month Africa CDC Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) fellowship supplies a pathway for creating a cadre of expert workforce that’s able to initiating and main emergency administration packages that embrace well timed detection and response to emergencies each time they happen. African public health professionals who’re working inside authorities establishments are strongly inspired to apply.

The PHEM Fellowship will goal mid-career African public health professionals with expertise managing PHEOCs or main emergency preparedness and response packages drawn from African Union member states. The Fellows shall be taken via a standardized coaching, structured mentorship, fingers on expertise, and technical help program leveraging on the PHEM Fellowship design of the US-CDC. During the coaching, Fellows will obtain specialised coaching in public health emergency administration features and
operations, take part in study excursions, work inside Africa CDC EOC, take part in public health workout routines and responses and obtain steerage from international specialists in emergency administration. Upon completion and return to home international locations, Fellows shall be anticipated to facilitate the growth of public health emergency administration packages inside their home international locations and sufficiently capacitated to take up management and advisory roles in public health emergency administration packages.

Fellowship Structure:
The PHEM fellowship is a 6-month residential program requiring full-time dedication from chosen Fellows. The third cohort will span two coaching websites: the Africa CDC Headquarters in Ethiopia and the Southern Regional Collaborative Centre in Zambia. The program begins with fourteen weeks of in-person courses, the place Fellows are paired with skilled mentors to reinforce their studying. This is adopted by two weeks of study excursions, with every Fellow visiting one PHEOC inside Africa and one exterior it. Afterward, Fellows will have interaction in a four-week area placement in PHEOCs and emergency response settings. The program concludes with 4 weeks for venture completion, evaluations, and commencement.

Target Audience:
The fellowship is designed for mid-level public health professionals with expertise in managing public health emergency operations centres or main emergency preparedness and response packages of their international locations.

Selection Criteria

Applicants should:

• Be residents of an African Union Member State;
• Age Limit: Only professionals who shall be 50 years previous or youthful by July 31, 2026, might apply;
• possess a postgraduate diploma in public health or associated area; have related skilled expertise in any area associated to public health together with however not restricted to PHEOC operations, one health, drugs, finance, logistics and provide chain, health economics, health coverage, animal health or environmental health;
• Be a full-time government-employed civil servant working in public health at a public establishment in Africa.
• be capable to display potentials to implement public health emergency administration packages that may positively influence their international locations upon return.

Selection shall be carried out by an impartial committee comprising of consultants from the African Union Commission and Africa CDC, and technical companions.

Site allocation is solely on the discretion of Africa CDC.

funding

• Africa CDC will present all studying and improvement supplies and meet all prices related to fellowship, together with journey, month-to-month allowance and insurance coverage through the residential placements.

Important Note:

• Candidates from much less represented international locations inside the African Union are strongly inspired to apply. These international locations embrace Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sahrawi Democratic Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, South Africa, South Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, and Zambia.

Important Dates:

• Deadline for Applications: 31 March 2026
• Successful candidates shall be knowledgeable by May 2026
• The fellowship will begin in June 2026

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Africa CDC Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Fellowship