Applications for the 2nd cohort of the fully funded Africa CDC AES fellowship are now open!
Aplication Deadline: 31 March 2025
Applications for the 2nd cohort of the fully funded Africa CDC AES fellowship are now open!
Overview
Africa CDC is building Africa’s public health workforce through the AES fellowship, a two-year applied epidemiology program to strengthen disease prevention and response across the continent. Open to public health professionals from African Union Member States, this African Epidemic Service (AES) – Epidemiology Track Fellowship program offers hands-on experience tackling real-world health challenges.
Background
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is an autonomous technical Agency established by the African Union (AU) to enhance the capacity, capabilities, and partnerships of Africa’s public health institutions. Its primary goal is to control prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats and outbreaks by employing science, policy, and data-driven interventions and programs effectively and efficiently.
In this regard, Africa CDC has developed a continental African Epidemic Service (AES), an elite workforce hosted and directed by the African Union. The African Epidemic Service has three tracks namely, Epidemiology, Laboratory Leadership and Public health informatics. The African Epidemic Service – Epidemiology track is a two-year competency based applied epidemiology training program that aims to strengthen the disease prevention and response capacity of African Union member states.
The AES fellowship program targets qualified applicants from Africa Union Member states drawn from public health discipline, with an interest in practicing applied Epidemiology. AES Fellows will be selected from a wide variety of disciplines including Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, Environmental Health, Occupational Health as well as other associated disciplines under public health. Successful applicants are leaders who aspire to master applied epidemiology and are willing to accept assignments in a wide range of public health topics across the 55 African Union Member States.
The first cohort of 10 distinguished fellows have been on boarded as part of the AES – Epidemiology track. Following the completion of their didactic trainings, the inaugural fellows have been deployed to their respective host sites. As per the Academic Calander of the program the call for application of the second cohort of the African Epidemic Service – Epidemiology track is now open.
Financing
Africa CDC will provide all learning and development materials and meet all costs associated with the fellowship, including travel-related costs (e.g., airfare, lodging, incidentals), stipends, hardware, and
insurance. Fellows will be supported to ensure that they have the relevant software and sufficient Internet connectivity for online learning.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants for the African Epidemic Service – Epidemiology track Fellowship must:
- be citizens of an African Union Member State;
- Be a youth as defined by the African Union, i.e., an individual under the age of 35.
- have been employed at the time of application in an African country with permission from a
government institution to attend the two years training, with right to return post training; - have a graduate degree from an accredited school of human medicine, veterinary medicine,
or other doctoral-level training in nursing, environmental sciences, or other public health field; - possess an MPH or equivalent degree with coursework in epidemiology or quantitative research methods; and
- have at least three years of recent full-time public health post graduate experience in an African
country; - Have a functional knowledge of the any of the African Union working languages and ability to
read and write technical medical and epidemiological texts
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