Apply for a Postdoctoral Global Health Fellowship!
Applications are due at midnight on Monday February 28, 2011.
Overview: The fellowship provides six months of funding for PhD or MD postdocs from disciplines traditionally not involved in "global health". Funded projects must be related to drug-resistance in Brazil, India, South Africa, or another emerging economy country.
Award: Grants of up to $35,000 will be available to pay the postdoctoral fellow's salary and benefits for up to six months, their international travel, and lab supplies. Salary levels are per NIH guidelines, but may be supplemented by other funds (e.g. R01, P01, etc). The international travel component for each project is expected to last at least one month.
How to Apply: Applicants are required to develop and submit a one-page research proposal with the guidance of their faculty advisors. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of faculty members, and awards will be announced by March 15, 2011. To apply, email the following to cend@berkeley.edu by midnight on February 28, 2011:
- Research Proposal (1 page limit; no budget required): Project description and background, specific aims, methods, relevance to drug resistance
- Letter of Recommendation: This should come from the UC Berkeley or UCSF faculty advisor. Faculty advisors are encouraged in their letters to identify a trainee at the foreign collaborating institution who will benefit from the fellowship's investment in laboratory infrastructure and supplies.
- Curriculum Vitae: Limited to 2 pages.
- Travel Dates: Provide estimated dates for the postdoc's international travel, which must last one month or more.
Eligibility: Postdoctoral fellows in the life sciences, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, math and information sciences, public health, medicine, social sciences and other disciplines are eligible for the fellowship. Fellows must be co-mentored by one faculty advisor at UC Berkeley or UCSF and a second advisor at a foreign collaborating institution. The proposed project can be a pilot study to develop new collaborations, an assessment of drug resistance challenges or risk factors, development of a diagnostic technology, validation of new drug targets, modeling the spread of drug resistant infections, genomics and genetics of drug resistant pathogens, economic impacts of drug resistance, etc.
Review Criteria: Reviewers will score proposals based on scientific merit and the relevance of the project to the field of drug-resistance research. Proposals should clearly identify the postdoc's role in the project (as distinguished from the roles of faculty advisors or other members of the lab/group), the specific objectives for time spent abroad, the deliverables expected by the end of the fellowship, and any work to be completed at UC Berkeley (as opposed to work carried out abroad). Priority will be given to postdocs working with two or more faculty members from different disciplines and/or schools at UCB/UCSF, in addition to the advisor at the collaborating institution abroad.
The UC Berkeley Framework postdoctoral program is administered by:
Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND)