Apply Now: Global Health Corps Fellowship Program 2024/2025 for Young Professionals (Fully Funded)
Global Health Corps(GHC) recruits and selects highly qualified applicants with diverse skill sets and backgrounds to be placed in high-impact organizations for a year-long fellowship. During their fellowship year, fellows make significant contributions to their placement organizations and the communities they serve. They also engage in robust leadership training and integrate into GHC’s global network.
Eligibility Criteria
By the start of the fellowship, fellows must:
- Be 30 years of age or younger.
- Hold a bachelor’s or undergraduate university degree.
- Be proficient in English.
- Be a citizen or legal permanent resident of Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, or Zimbabwe.
Ideal Applicant
The ideal applicant is an applicant who meets the requirements below;
Collaborative: You value inclusion and collaboration across sectors, cultures, and borders of all kinds. You are ready to listen to and embrace others’ perspectives, even when they are different from your own.
Committed to learning: You are willing to push yourself outside your comfort zone often (while practicing self-care). You are ready to approach a personally transformative year with integrity, humility, and self-reflection.
Inspiring and mobilizing: You are ready to strengthen and use your voice — the most powerful tool for change that you have — in order to engage others, create space for critical conversation, and effect meaningful social change in global health.
Committed to social justice: You are passionate about social justice in health and have both the patience and the motivation to engage in the hard, complex work of building just health systems.
Adaptive and innovative: You are excited by a design-thinking approach to building a better world, creatively embracing problems and ready to embrace failure as learning.
Results-driven: You bring your best self and are motivated to do the day-to-day work needed to bring about positive change in the global health equity movement.
Fellowship Countries
Citizens and legal permanent residents of all 13 eligible countries can apply for up to three total roles in any of our four operating countries.
Malawian citizens are eligible to apply for national roles in Malawi (M-Nat) as well as international roles in Rwanda (R-Int), Uganda (G-Int), and Zambia (Z-Int).
Rwandan citizens are eligible to apply for national roles in Rwanda (R-Nat) as well as international roles in Malawi (M-Int), Uganda (G-Int), and Zambia (Z-Int).
Ugandan citizens are eligible to apply for national roles in Uganda (G-Nat) as well as international roles in Malawi (M-Int), Rwanda (R-Int), and Zambia (Z-Int).
Zambian citizens are eligible to apply for national roles in Zambia (Z-Nat) as well as international roles in Malawi (M-Int), Rwanda (R-Int), and Uganda (G-Int).
Citizens or legal permanent residents of Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Zimbabwe are eligible to apply for international roles in any of our four placement countries – Malawi (M-Int), Rwanda (R-Int), Uganda (G-Int) and Zambia (Z-Int).
Benefits of Global Health Corps Fellowship Program
Selected applicants will be provided with;
- Housing or a housing allowance;
- Health insurance; and,
- Payment for travel to/from the placement site as well as GHC training and retreats for the duration of the fellowship.
Timeline for Global Health Corps Fellowship Program 2024/2025
- Applications open December 5, 2023
- Applications close at 5 pm GMT/6 pm WAT/7 pm CAT/8 pm EAT. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as you can.
Recommendation Forms Due by January 24, 2024
- GHC requires one recommendation form submitted directly by your reference by January 24, 2024, at 12:00 PM (noon) EST / 7:00 PM CAT / 8:00 PM EAT. We can’t consider your application without it!
Selecting Our Next COHORT
GHC reviews applications from January through February, conducts interviews in March and April, and makes offers on a rolling basis starting in late April. The fellowship starts at our Training Institute in July 2024.
How to Apply for Global Health Corps Fellowship Program 2024/2025
Interested participants should apply online via the fellowship application portal here before the application deadline.
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