Sub-Saharan African Consortium for Advanced Biostatistics Fellowships

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The DELTAS Africa SSACAB II Consortium is inviting full time applications for 37 MSc, 18 PhD & 7 Post-Doctoral fellowships in Biostatistics for the 2024 academic year. Fellowships are open to candidates with a strong background in Statistics, Mathematics, Demography, & other quantitative fields.

Further, competent candidates from health science fields, such as biomedical sciences, pharmacy, & medicine who may benefit from a biostatistics qualification, are also encouraged to apply. Eligible applicants should apply for a place at one of the Consortium Partner or Collaborating Institutions.

Eligibility:

  • MSc scholarships are open to candidates with a strong background in Statistics, Mathematics, Demography, and other quantitative fields. Additionally, the following are also encouraged to apply:
  • Competent candidates from the health science fields, such as biomedical sciences, pharmacy, and medicine who may benefit from a postgraduate course in biostatistics.
  • Candidates who have completed their masters’ coursework and require support with their research component.
  • Eligible applicants should have applied for a place at either the partner or collaborating institutions offering postgraduate biostatistics degree programs.
  • The scholarship is open to nationals of low and middle-income countries in the Sub-Saharan African region who are resident in the region as per World Bank definition.
  • Applicants should be under 35 years of age to qualify for the MSc program.
  • Applicants must meet the admission requirements of the respective universities offering the MSc degree before applying for the fellowship

Host Institutions:

  • Wits University
  • UMCU
  • Wits Global Change Institute (GCI)
  • University of Abomey- Calavi
  • Moi University
  • University of KwaZulu Natal
  • KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
  • University of Pretoria and South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • University Medical Center Utrecht

Benefits

The MSc scholarships will cover the following for selected fellows in the 2024 academic year:

  • Tuition fees and basic medical insurance.
  • A monthly stipend to cover accommodation and living expenses.
  • Reasonable support for the MSc research project and supervision.
  • Travel costs to and from the academic training institution and the host research institution

For more information: https://www.ssacab.co.za/Fellowships/Opportunities.aspx

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