Wellcome International Master's Fellowships in Health: Funding for LMIC Students

This fellowship pays for Master's level training for people from low- and middle-income countries. Wellcome offers it to help you build research skills in a health subject. The award covers a taught Master's course plus a research project, and the research must address a health priority in a low- or middle-income country.

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This is a Master's degree programme in a health-related subject, and you can take it at any university in the world.

You carry out the research project at an eligible organisation. The project must sit within Wellcome's science remit and focus on a health priority in a low- or middle-income country.

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Nationals of a low- or middle-income country

The fellowship is worth £120,000. That figure includes salary, studentship stipend, fees and research expenses. It normally runs for 30 months: 12 months of taught Master's course and 18 months of research project.

You can apply for a Master's Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine if you:

• are a national of a low- or middle-income country

• your proposed research focuses on a health priority in a low- or middle-income country

• you have sponsorship from an eligible host organisation in a low- or middle-income country apart from mainland China.

You must also:

• hold a clinical or non-clinical undergraduate degree in a relevant subject

• be at an early stage in your career with limited research experience (but you must have demonstrated interest in, or aptitude for, research).

Applications are currently closed.

You submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker (WTGT). Applications are considered twice a year. The deadline for the next application rounds are 13 April 2021 and 24 August 2021. These are the last rounds of funding.

Visit the official website (link found below) to access the application form and for detailed information on how to apply for this scholarship.