WANIDA Master’s & PhD Fellowships 2020/2021

Deadline: December 5, 2020

Applications are open for the WANIDA Master’s & PhD Fellowships 2020/2021. In response to the ACE Partner call under the World Bank African Centres of Excellence (ACE) Impact project, seven ACEs have jointly established the West African Network of Infectious Diseases ACEs (WANIDA).

WANIDA was established to facilitate interactions, collaborations and networking among the infectious diseases ACEs, other health-related ACEs and non-ACE institutions in the sub-region, with an aim to address the inadequacies of existing health systems across Africa for responding to significant public health threats.

WANIDA seeks to promote greater cooperation between the participating institutions to pursue high quality research and excellence in training, with focus on the etiology of febrile illnesses across West Africa, and developing mechanisms for sharing research resources and technical expertise.

Fellowship Details

In line with its training mandate, the West African Network of Infectious Diseases ACEs (WANIDA) is accepting fellowship applications under the ACEPartner project for regional students enrolled in Master’s and PhD programmes at the following African Centres of Excellence (ACE):

• West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
• Africa Centre of Excellence for Mycotoxin and Food Safety (ACEMFS), Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria.
• Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University Nigeria, Ede, Nigeria.
• Africa Centre of Excellence for Neglected Tropical Diseases and Forensic Biology (ACENTDFB), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
• Africa Centre of Excellence for Population Health and Policy (ACEPHAP), Bayero University Kano, Kano, Nigeria.
• Centre d’Excellence Africain en Innovations Biotechnologiques pour l’Élimination des Maladies à Transmission Vectorielle (ITECH-MTV), Université Nazi Boni, Burkina Faso.
• Centre d’Excellence Africain – Prévention et Contrôle des Maladies Transmissibles (CEA-PCMT) Université Gamal Abdel Nasser, Conakry, Guinée.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

• Be an African national enrolled as a regional student (non-national) in one of the above-listed ACEs in the 2020/2021 academic year.
• Be interested in working on one of the following priority disease areas: COVID-19, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola, Mycobacterial infections, neglected tropical diseases, food-borne pathogens.

Application

Applicants are required to include as part of their applications:

• Completed application form.
• Summary of research proposal including plans for partnership(s) with other ACE(s), budget and timelines (maximum 2 pages).
• Letter of motivation (maximum 1 page).
• Endorsement from current supervisor and ACE Centre Leader.
• Curriculum Vitae (maximum 2 pages).
• Proof of registration in current academic year or letter of admission.
• Official transcript from most recent degree.

Interested applicants may download application forms in English and in French and may send their completed application documents in one PDF file to [email protected].

For more information, visit WANIDA Fellowship.