Weekly round-up #270
Training Grants Round 15 Now Open
VALIDATE is pleased to announce that the 15th round of our Training Grants is now open. Early Career Researcher Associate members, this is your chance to enhance your professional development with grants of up to £3500. These grants offer valuable support for various training opportunities, including attending courses or workshops, and participating in laboratory exchanges. By taking advantage of these opportunities, you can further your career and expand your knowledge in your chosen field, so don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity! Visit our website to find out more information and submit your application: www.validate-network.org/training-grants.
- AREF-MRC Towards Leadership Programme - Support to empower talented, emerging scientists in Africa to compete successfully for UKRI MRC and other major funding opportunities in global health research - ongoing scheme
- NIH Global Infectious Disease Research Training Grants (GID) - Program addressing research training needs related to infectious diseases that are predominantly endemic in or impact upon people living in developing countries - 3 August 2023
Find a full list of all relevant external funding on our external funding page.
Training Opportunities and Events:
- Asset Africa: Proposal Writing & Fund-Raising Masterclass, Heron Portico Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, 19 June 2023
- Future Africa: Africa Science Leadership Programme, University of Pretoria, deadline 15 July 2023
- BSI - Command-line omics, Linux and Python, Online, 7 August 2023
- World Vaccine Congress Europe, Fira de Barcelona, Montjuïc, 17-19 October 2023
- Essential Grant Writing Skills Programme, Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), online 9-13 Oct & 27-29 Nov 2023
- CEO - Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), The Gambia
You can find up-to-date and relevant career opportunities are on our jobs page.
- Memory B-cells are enriched in the blood of patients with acute Buruli ulcer disease: a prospective observational study - JK Adjei et al, BMC Infectious Diseases
- Tuberculosis control in the face of emerging infectious diseases: Highlights from the 7th South African Tuberculosis Conference - VALIDATE member SY Ma'aruf et al, Public Health Challenges
Check out our Publications Page for members' publications and email VALIDATE@ndm.ox.ac.uk if you want us to include a paper.
Highlights on Twitter this week:
The WHO launched a TB research tracker online platform, AcademicChatter flagged a list of useful websites to access publications that are behind paywalls, while The Global Health Network announced their 1,000 Challenge, to enable nurses, midwives and community health workers in low-resource settings to lead research studies. Nature discussed how to achieve gender equality in science, BSI called for focus group members for public engagement, and AcademicChatter gave 10 tips on asking for help in academia and talked about how to handle negative feedback. The 2nd global survey of postdoc researchers is underway, so do share your experiences with Nature, and Madhu Pai publicized his list of 300 excellent global health books for us all to get stuck into reading!
Keep up to date with all the relevant news and opportunities by following @NetworkVALIDATE on Twitter..
Published: 14 June 2023