Registration for CARTA Ph.D. Fellowships 2019/2020 is now on.
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) application out is out for interested applicant, is an initiative of eight African universities, four African research institutes, and select northern partners.
This program is a collaborative doctoral training program in public and population health. The exciting part is All African countries are Eligible to participate. This program runs for a maximum of four years.
The list of Universities and host countries can be seen below.
Participating in African Universities:
- Makerere University, Uganda.
- Moi University, Kenya.
- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.
- University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
- University of Malawi, Malawi.
- University of Nairobi, Kenya.
- University of Rwanda, Rwanda.
- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Participating Research Institutes:
- African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya.
- Agincourt Health and Population Unit, South Africa.
- Ifakara Health Institute (IHI), Tanzania
- KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya.
Non-African Partners:
- Brown University, USA.
- Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR), Canada.
- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Switzerland.
- Umeå University, Sweden.
- University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
- University of Warwick, UK.
- University of Bergen, Norway.
- Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Sweden.
- University of Chile
Requirement:
- You must have a Masters degree in a relevant field.
- Prior admission into a Ph.D. program is not required for the application, but awards are contingent on such admission being obtained at one of the participating African universities.
- Applicants for this program must be teaching or research staff at one of the participating African institutions and should be committed to contributing to building capacity at their institutions.
- Applicants’ Ph.D. research proposal must be related to public and population health.
- Fellowships are only open to people who have not yet registered for a Ph.D. or are in the very early stages (first year) of the Ph.D. program.
- Applicants must commit to participation in all four annual residential Joint Advanced Seminars (JASes), and to engage in inter-seminar activities designed to keep fellows actively involved and in continual communication with peers and mentors.
- Male applicants must be under the age of 40 years and female applicants under age 45 years by April 30, 2019.
How to Apply For CARTA PhD scholarships 2019/2020
- Contact the CARTA focal person) at your institution to explain your interest and obtain application materials. Application forms may also be downloaded from the CARTA website (www.cartafrica.org)
- You are expected to complete your application forms by April 30, 2019 to the Focal Persons at partner institutions WITH A COPY TO THE SECRETARIAT (carta_fellowship@aphrc.org )
- Institutional Selection: Between April 30 and May 15 the institutions select nominees for the full application to CARTA. Institutions must submit a completed University CARTA PhD Fellowships Applications Screening Form on May 15.
- Full application process;
Pre-JAS Assignments:
The pre-JAS assignments must be uploaded to the Pre-JAS portal before June 15 . The pre-JAS assignments have been developed and are revised every year. Revision entails developing a new numeracy task, obtaining a new set of papers for the critical review of a scientific article task (one qualitative and one quantitative) and ensuring that the plagiarism and ethics courses are available online.
Nominees complete the Pre-JAS part 1 assignments and submit a full application form between June 15 and July 15 . A summary of the tasks and the scores are provided below.
- A critical review of a scientific article (score 100)
- Numeracy task (score 100)
- Critical thinking task (score 100)
- Understanding plagiarism course (score 50)
- AMANET basic health research ethics course (score 150)
Proposal review:
Applicants have an opportunity to revise the proposals submitted for the institutional selection between June 15 to July 15 .
- Nominees submit their revised research proposals which must adhere to the CARTA format to the focal person, who will forward it to the CARTA secretariat.
- Nominees submit a reference support letter from the Head of Department to CARTA secretariat.
- Final fellowship decision, which is independent of the university application, will be communicated by CARTA secretariat by November 1, 2019.
Deadline : April 30, 2019
Key documents:
CARTA-Fellowship-Application-Form-2019
CARTA PhD Call 2019
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