Weekly round-up #57

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Weekly round-up #57

 

Here at VALIDATE Christmas is nearly upon us and everything is slowing down ready for the new year; we wish everyone who celebrates it a Happy Christmas, and a Happy New Year! We look forward to what 2019 will hold for the Network and our members.

 

We would like to welcome some of our final new members of 2018:

 

Associates: Dr Victor Agah (Ebonyi State University, Nigeria)

 

Affiliates: Bernard Abeiku Sam (University of Debrecen, Hungary/University of Ghana, Ghana); Dr Albert Ng'ong'a (Dept of Health, County Government of Kisimu, Kenya); Inácio Mandomando (CISM, Mozambique); Dr Joshua Kamani (NVRI, Nigeria); Yanie Tayipto (EOCRU, Indonesia); and Hanif Shaikh (Kem Hospital Research Centre Pune, India)

 

And a special congraulations to Dr Nawamin Pinpathomrat, who has completed his PhD at the University of Oxford and succesfully applied to be upraded to an Associate!

 

Funding: 

  • MRC-KHIDI UK-Korea Partnering Awards - deadline 31 Jan 2019
  • VALIDATE Pump-priming grants - up to £50,000 for up to 12 months for projects leading to relevant and useful data for the field, or pilot data that will lead to larger grant applications. Cross-pathogen research, cross-discipline research, projects promoting the One Health agenda, in vivo research, translational research, collaborative projects led by and/or involving LMIC researchers, new collaborations between VALIDATE members, projects led by and/or including Early Career Researchers,and projects with industry involvement are particularly encouraged - deadline 12 Feb 2019
  • VALIDATE Training grants - up to £3,000 for Associate members to take advantage of training opportunities that will contribute to their professional development - deadline 12 Feb 2019
  • DAERA UK Postgraduate Studentships  - covers fees and maintenance support over 3 years for PhD study in the UK for British citizens/EU nationals - deadline 05 Mar 2019
  • MRC/DFID African Research Leader scheme - open to talented and enthusiastic African investigators working in all biomedical and health research areas within the MRC/DFID remit on global health, up to £750,000 over up to 5 years - deadline 09 Apr 2019

Take a look at other funding opportunities on our website.

 

Training Opportunities:

Our training opportunities page has information about all upcoming opportunities we have spotted.

 

Events

Further external events can be found on our website.

 

Job Opportunities: 

Our website has details about relevant vacancies and PhD opportunities.

 

Publications:

Our publications page lists relevant publications by our members and others.

 

On Twitter this week: watch a short video primer about vaccine hesitancy; read about the vaccine heroes who help to protect millions of people every year; take a look at the current state of global TB funding in Nature; there is a new series of 3 papers on TB transmission in HIV-endemic settings in The Lancet Infectious Diseases; find out more about Leishmaniasis and MSF activities to combat it; an artivle in the Deccan Herald highlights the need to do more to protect the rights of people with leprosy; don't forget to register for the LSHTM online course about Leishmaniasis control and elimination; get some advice from The Royal Society about how to make better decisions in groups; and read about the growing anti-vaccincation movement and the search to find a way to fight it.

We keep our feed @NetworkVALIDATE up to date daily with the latest information and news that we find - go and take a look!

 

The VALIDATE Team will be out of the office over the Christmas period from Dec 21st and back again on Jan 7th.

 

Published: 19 December 2018