Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program for Public Health Professionals

Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program for Public Health Professionals

The Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program is a continental workforce development program targeting national public health institutions and laboratories in the African Union Member States to improve the use of pathogen genomic data for outbreak detection and disease surveillance.

The fellowship is program is implemented in partnership with the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), and regional centers of excellence.

Objectives – Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program

Requirements

The program is 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 and be a citizen of the African Union Member States.
Fellowship Program:

The fellowship has two tracks – i) a wet-lab track focusing of end-to-end protocols for next-generation sequencing of pathogens; and ii) a dry-lab track with a focus on public health bioinformatics data analytics, interpretation, and reporting.

The fellowship program aims to support technical experts and future leaders in public health pathogen

genomics and bioinformatics in Africa.

Training led by continent-based educational and professional subject matter experts

Training at State-of-the-art facilities across the continent

Multilingual fellowship program

Potential candidates and host institutions:

CDC 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

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program for Public Health Professionals

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