Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program 2023

The Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program 2023 is currently accepting applications. In order to enhance the use of pathogen genomic data for epidemic identification and disease tracking, the Fellowship is a regional workforce development initiative that targets national public health organizations and labs in the member states of the African Union.
Regional centers of expertise and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) collaborate to execute the fellowship program. The internship has two tracks: a drylab track with an emphasis on public health bioinformatics data analytics, analysis, and reporting; and a wet-lab track with a focus on end-to-end methods for next-generation sequencing of pathogens.

The fellowship program has the following objectives:

• To train pathogen genomics and bioinformatics workforce to improve outbreak detection,
  investigation & disease surveillance in Africa.
• To contribute to strengthening the prevention, preparedness, surveillance, and control of
  infectious diseases while supporting the implementation of Africa’s New Public Health
  Order.
• To contribute to knowledge and technology transfers and capacity building within and
  between African Union Member States.

Eligibility:

• Open to National public health institutes (NPHIs) and National Reference Laboratories
  (NRLs) personnel who wish to gain experience in NGS sequencing or analyzing pathogen
  genomic sequence data.
• Applicants should have a minimum of BSc degree.
• Be a citizen of the African Union Member States.

Potential candidates and host institutions:

• They are anticipating at least 25 fellows for the 2023 cohort
• 15 host institutions across Africa. Applicants should provide evidence of the host
  institution’s agreement to accept the fellow for the duration of the fellowship period.
• Africa CDC and ASLM will support fellows to identify host institutions.
• Only complete applications shall be evaluated by an independent selection committee and
  the outcome communicated to the applicants

Application:

All interested participants should fill in the online application form based on the selected
languages:
Application form – English
Application form – French

Click here to apply