The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336, VAT Registration Number GB 592 9507 00, and is acknowledged by the UK authorities as a “Recognized body” which has been granted degree awarding powers.
The University’s Global Health Academy has been awarded 10 fully funded studentships across six online Masters programmes within the domain of Global Health.
Award
The scholarship includes full tuition fee and resources to enhance student participation, access and research skills. This includes participation in a summer school; contribution towards student costs of internet access & printing (journal articles, etc); and a contribution to MSc project costs (materials, travel, etc).
Eligibility
The scholarships will be awarded to a candidate who is accepted for admission on to an eligible programme and who is a citizen of and resident in one of the following developing Commonwealth countries:
- Bangladesh
- Botswana
- Cameroon
- Ghana
- India
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Rwanda
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
Eligible programmes:
- MSc Clinical Education
- MSc Family Medicine
- MSc Global Challenges
- MSc Global Health
- MSc Paediatric Emergency Medicine
- eMPH Public Health
Students enrolled on these eligible Masters programme become members of the Global Health Academy community which encourages both intra- and inter-disciplinary engagement and communication
The Global Health Academy initiative cuts across the traditional vertical health structures moving to novel integrated health systems training. Our aim is to promote a global community of practice where students can access multiple strands of knowledge from many different experts to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the 21st century.
For example, non-communicable diseases are changing the face of African, Asian and Latin American health and healthcare and require not just disease specialists but experts in logistics, in training and policy and in technologies especially, e- and m-health, in order to create stronger community health. Students taking these courses find them rewarding in the opportunity they present to engage with professionals from industry, medicine, policy and research.
How To Apply
Applicants who are eligible for these scholarships should apply for one of the six eligible programmes in the first instance and notify the programme director of their intention to apply for the scholarship. The programme director will then give you further information on how to apply. The closing date for scholarship applications is 12th Oct, 2017 at 2359 hours BST.
CONTACT LINKS
Clinical Education – Debbie Spence
Family Medicine – family.medicine@ed.ac.uk
Global Challenges – globalchallenges.health@ed.ac.uk
Global eHealth – global.ehealth@ed.ac.uk
Paediatric Emergency Medicine – Lisa Horsburgh
eMPH Public Health – mph.dl@ed.ac.uk