Associated organisationsKing's College London · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · Queen Mary University of London · St George's, University of London · University College London · University of SussexEurope PMC affiliations are not treated as award recipients or mapped locations.
Funding£7.8M
PeriodSept 2017 — Sept 2022
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Five clinician-researchers each year will receive full funding and mentorship to pursue PhDs focused on the health problems of low- and middle-income countries. This matters because the world’s most pressing infectious diseases—HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases—disproportionately affect poor populations, yet too few clinical researchers from high-income countries dedicate their careers to these problems. The programme also covers maternal and child health, mental health, antimicrobial resistance, and non-communicable diseases, reflecting the full burden of disease in these settings. If the programme succeeds, it will create a pipeline of independent clinician-scientists who can lead research that directly improves diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in the countries that need it most. The partner institutions have committed over £1 million in additional support, signalling that the training infrastructure is already in place. The ultimate change is not in a single technology or drug, but in the human capacity to generate evidence where it is currently scarcest.
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Our goal is to train a cohort of academically outstanding clinicians committed to research careers focussing on the health problems of low and middle income countries, providing them with the skills and mentorship they need to become independent clinician scientists and future academic leaders. Our programme will be based in the Wellcome Trust Bloomsbury Centre for Global Health Research, a partnership between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University College London, Queen Mary University of London, Kings College London and St George’s, University of London established in 1995, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Our 99 potential supervisors cover the academic disciplines needed for global health research and a wide variety of clinical specialties. We are applying for 5 fellowships a year, and will focus on six themes in which our partner institutions have a strong track record of global health research and a history of successful collaboration: HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria; neglected tropical diseases; maternal and child health; mental health; antimicrobial resistance; and non-communicable diseases. Our partner institutions have committed a total of more than £1 million to support the programme and provide additional fellowships.
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