Weekly round-up #67

Weekly round-up #67

We're delighted to announce that our new Network Assistant, Stuart Robinson, has started at VALIDATE this Monday. He'll be helping our Network Manager, Samantha Vermaak, with running the network, so do get in touch with either Sam or Stuart with any queries at validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.

We've also had plenty of new members joining VALIDATE over the last few weeks, so welcome to:

Investigators: Prof Clarisa Palatnik-de-Sousa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), and Dr Olivier Neyrolles (CNRS-IPBS, France).

Associates: Asst Prof Tarun Bhatt (Central University of Rajasthan, India), Dr Dirlei Nico (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Dr Omar Alcaraz (UNAM, Mexico), Dr Javier Sanchez-Villamil (University of Texas Medical Branch, USA), Dr Chidchamai Kewcharoenwong (Khon Kaen University, Thailand), Dr César Lópze-Camacho (University of Oxford, UK), and Dr Rebecca Harris (LSHTM, UK).

Affiliates: Justice Ngom Ngom (University of Douala, Cameroon), Jones Lamptey (Chongqing Medical University, China), Alice Sarno (FIOCRUZ, Brazil), and Richard Larbi (Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, Ghana).

Congratulations to Dr Robert Shey (University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Dr Lisa Stockdale (University of Oxford, UK), who both recently were awarded their PhDs and so moved from Affiliate to Associate membership.

You can find out about these new members' research on their biography pages via our member's online directory.

Our latest round of pump-priming funded projects was announced this week - huge congratulations to the awardees. You can read all about the funded projects and researchers here.

Our latest VALIDATE newsletter was released on 29 March and is available online too. It details everything we've been up to at VALIDATE in the last quarter, and how VALIDATE can help your research and career in 2019, so do let us know if you didn't receive your copy by email.

Funding:

Gates: Emerging Technologies for New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas - for proposals that apply an emerging technology for new and potentially transformative solutions in global health priority areas, including NTDs, TB, and vaccine development - closes 10 Apr 2019
TEG Postgraduate Training Fellowship in Medical Statistics for African Scientists - Post-graduate fellowship for sub-Saharan Africa statisticians/epidemiologists - closes 26 Apr 2019
CARTA PhD Fellowships 2019/2020 - closes 30 Apr 2019
Medical Research Foundation: Emerging Leaders Prize for AMR - Up to £200,000 for outstanding researchers - closes May 2019
Seeding Lab Instrumental Access fund - Equipment donations for LMICs (NB there are some costs involved) - closes 14 June / 30 Aug 2019
NRF South Africa doctoral funding - funding for doctoral research 2020 at South African institute - closes 31 Jul 2019

Find other funding opportunities on our external funding page.

Training Opportunities:

Royal Society: Pairing Scheme for Scientists to work with MPs - closing date 7 Apr 2019
TEG Postgraduate Training Fellowship in Medical Statistics for African Scientists - Post-graduate fellowship for sub-Saharan Africa statisticians/epidemiologists - closes 26 Apr 2019
Country Ambassador, RSTMH - voluntary role to ensure RSTMH are better connected with their members, supporters and networks outside of the UK - apply at any time, but RSTMH would like to get their first group set up by May 2019
Imperial College London Global Health Short Course - 24-28 June 2019
AAS call for mentors (no listed closing date)
RSTMH Global Assessors - voluntary role - assessing small grant and abstract applications - apply at any time
Editorial Advisor, Transactions of the RSTMH - voluntary role - apply at any time
Associate Editor, Transactions of the RSTMH - voluntary role - apply at any time
Editorial Advisor, International Health - voluntary role, apply at any time
Associate Editor, International Health - voluntary role, apply at any time

Visit our training opportunities page for further ideas for your career development.

Events

British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Joint Spring Meeting - 15-17 Apr 2019
UK-India Newton-Bhabha Fund Researcher Links Workshop - PHE-IISER workshop "Challenges of TB"; workshop in India runs from 16-19 Dec 2019; deadline for application 17 May 2019
VIIth Conference of the South African Immunology Society “Synergy in Immunology” - South Africa, 18-20 June 2019
10th NTD NGO Network (NNN) Conference "Our Vision Beyond 2020: Many Partners, One Voice" - Liverpool, UK, 17-19 Sep 2019
East African Research in Progress - for early career researchers to present their unpublished research in progress to peers & senior experts in all fields of tropical medicine & global health - Tanzania, 26-28 Sep 2019
TBScience2019 - pre-conference to 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health, devoted to basic and translational TB research - India, 29-30 Oct 2019

Visit our events page for all the events coming up in our field.

Job Opportunities:

Professor of Global Health, De Montfort University, UK - closes 3 May 2019

To view all the vacancies in our field visit our job webpage.