Towards Universal Health Coverage - promoting and responding to Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health
Johannesburg / Pretoria, South Africa, 18-22 September 2017
Application deadline: 30 June 2017
Under the British Council Researcher Links scheme offered by the Newton Fund, the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa); Imperial College London (United Kingdom) and Aga Khan University (Kenya), will be hosting a workshop on Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health
Criteria: Participants must have a research or academic position (a permanent post, research contract, or fellowship etc.) at a recognised research institution either in the UK, South Africa or Kenya.
More information: https://www.britishcouncil.org.za/call-participants-research-links-workshop
Application form: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/events/events/uhc-mncah to be completed and sent to newtonapp@hsrc.ac.za.
Eligibility Criteria:
- · Participants must be early career researchers: Early career researchers are defined as an individual who has been awarded his or her PhD not more than 10 years prior to the workshop, or is currently near completing their PhD. Allowances can be made for career breaks.
- · If a researcher does not hold a PhD, but has research experience equivalent to a PhD holder and works in a field where a PhD is not a pre-requisite for established research activity, they can still be considered eligible.
- · They are equivalent to the ‘Recognised Researcher’ and sometimes ‘Experienced Researcher’ categories in the EU framework for researchers’ careers. http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/Towards_a_European_Fr...
- · Participants must have a research or academic position (a permanent post, research contract, or fellowship etc.) at a recognised research institution either in the UK, South Africa or Kenya.
- · Please note that participants are expected to attend and contribute to all sessions of the workshop.
All travel, subsistence and accommodation costs will be covered.