IDM-Africa Fellowship Programme 2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 30, 2026

Applications are open for the IDM-Africa Fellowship Programme 2027. IDM-Africa invites functions from early- and mid-profession scientists in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for its annual Fellowship Programme in infectious-illness modelling. The Fellowship helps scientists who have already got foundational coaching and sensible expertise in infectious-illness modelling to develop an utilized, coverage-related modelling challenge utilizing their very own information.

Fellows will obtain structured mentorship from main modellers, infectious-illness specialists and coverage specialists at associate establishments. The associate websites are The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) at Makerere University; University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB) and Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) with their corresponding coaching websites being The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Kampala-Uganda (ACE-Uganda); The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Bamako-Mali (ACE-B); and The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD).

Fellowship Structure

Each Fellowship runs for 12 months:

• One month of in-individual placement on the chosen host establishment (ACE-Uganda or ACE-B), with intensive mentor-guided challenge improvement.
• Eleven months of on-line mentorship, together with a minimum of one mentor-mentee session each two weeks, peer-studying actions, month-to-month progress reporting, and quarterly assessment conferences.

By the top of the Fellowship, every Fellow shall be anticipated to:

• Complete a documented and validated infectious-illness mannequin, together with reproducible code in R, Python or equal software program.
• Submit a remaining challenge report back to the IDM-Africa coordinating centre at IDI.
• Submit a manuscript as lead writer to a peer-reviewed open-entry journal.
• Produce a coverage temporary as lead writer speaking the relevance of the modelling outcomes to policymakers.
• Submit common bi-weekly progress updates and quarterly efficiency reviews by way of the IDI iBRIDGE system / Virtual Communities of Learning (VCL) platform.
• Attend the month-to-month peer-fellow conferences.
• Present progress throughout quarterly Fellowship assessment conferences.
• Present analysis findings at a workshop or regional scientific convention and on the annual IDM-Africa coverage translation workshop.
• Complete all agreed mentorship, reporting and deliverable necessities to obtain a certificates of completion.

Eligibility

• Be affiliated with an establishment situated in sub-Saharan Africa and inside the EDCTP Association.
• Be resident in, or keen to relocate to, an eligible sub-Saharan African nation for the Fellowship placement.
• Hold a grasp’s diploma in a quantitative self-discipline – similar to arithmetic, physics, information science or statistics or a well being-associated discipline, along with brief-time period coaching in infectious-illness modelling. Candidates holding or pursuing a PhD in these disciplines are additionally eligible to apply.
• Have sensible expertise in infectious-illness modelling, together with having led a considerable element of a modelling-associated challenge, significantly the mathematical-modelling element.
• Be proficient in a minimum of one modelling platform or programming language, similar to R, Python or MATLAB, and be capable of handle datasets, formulate fashions, run simulations and interpret outcomes.
• Demonstrate a transparent dedication to a profession in infectious-illness modelling and its application to public-well being challenges.
• Be keen and capable of work in interdisciplinary groups, together with with epidemiologists, public-well being officers, modellers and policymakers.
• Be obtainable for the total one-month in-individual placement and the next 11 months of on-line mentorship.
• Commit to finishing the agreed Fellowship outputs.
• Applicants affiliated with associate establishments, together with establishments at IDI/Makerere University in Uganda or ACE-B/USTTB in Mali, are NOT eligible.

Application

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For extra info, go to IDM-Africa Fellowship.