Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards

Applications may be in any of the following categories: Scholarships for Master, Doctoral (PhD) degrees of up to 3 years, One year research on a split-site basis, One year taught masters courses, Distance Learning Scholarships, Academic Fellowships, Professional Fellowships. Click here for more details

Research fellowships & grants

CODESRIA Higher Education Leadership Programme: Advanced Research Fellowships, 2012 Deadline: 15th September, 2012 TDR Clinical Research & Development Fellowships TDR's Empowerment grant and training activities aim to develop strong leadership in health research and decision making, so that high quality institutional and national systems can identify and manage research priorities. All applications must be received by 24th September 2012 at the latest. A scholarship for African scientist The application deadline is Saturday 29 September 2012

Dowload Valuable E-books for free

Download e-books for free at bookboon in the following major fields: management and business studies, science, biology and biochemistry, engineering, environment, law, ICT etc

Conferences: Call for papers

2nd Global Symposium on HSR: 

Registration deadline fast approaching

Registration deadline: August 31st, 2012

When: October 31 - November 3rd, 2012 - Beijing, China

Global Maternal Health Conference 2013

Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 (GMHC2013) is a technical conference for scientists, researchers, and policy-makers to network, share knowledge, and build on progress toward eradicating preventable maternal mortality and morbidity by improving the quality of maternal health care. The conference is co-sponsored by Management and Development for Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the Maternal Health Task Force at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA.

Abstract should be submitted online by 31st September 2012

When: January 15-17, 2013 - Tanzania

Global Conference on Health Promotion 2013

World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland The Conference will assess achievements and aims for health promotion globally from Ottawa to Nairobi. It aims to address what works and how, identifying options for action, available processes, mechanisms and tools

When: June 10-14, 2013 - Finland

Open Access Africa 2012

BioMed Central - The conference will bring together researchers, librarians, university administrators, funders and other decision-makers to discuss open access publishing in an African context.

When: November 4th -5th, 2012 - Cape Town, South Africa

GETHealth Global Education and Technology Health Summit

John Hopkins University Center for Clinical Global Health Education, along with the World Health Organization (WHO) Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, the WHO Global Health Workforce Alliance, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the mHealth Alliance, US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Fogarty International Center, US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

When: October 2-3, 2012 - New York City, USA

21st IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion

The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) and Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth)

When: 25th to 29th August 2013 - Pattaya, Thailand Deadline for abstracts submission: December 20th, 2012

Research fellowships and funding opportunities

Postdoctoral Research fellowships for CHESAI - (IDRC funded project) UCT and UWC

Deadline: October 15th, 2012

Call for Proposals - Safe and Inclusive Cities: Reducing Urban Violence, Poverty, and Inequalities

International Development Research Centre

Deadline: August 26, 2012

Call - 3ie's Systematic Review Call 5

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation in partnership with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Deadline: August 31, 2012

Call for letters of interest - Population health vulnerabilities to vector-borne diseases: Increasing resilience under climate change conditions in Africa

TDR - Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases

Deadline: September 10, 2012

IDRC Research Awards

International Development Research Centre

Deadline: September 12, 2012

Content offered by HINARI at MUHAS

The HINARI AGORA and OARE partners agreed last year to provide a mid-year notice to registered institutions indicating which publishers’ content would be available in their country, area or territory in the upcoming calendar year. We are happy to provide you that information at the following URL:

http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/country_offer.php?country=102&institution=4

Please be aware that while the vast majority of our partner publishers have confirmed their offer for this year; there are a few that have not yet confirmed that they will make no changes in the coming year. We kindly invite you to check back at this URL if you need verification of the publisher offer later this year.  The link will provide the latest information we have received from the publishers.

Other latest news:

• In mid-July, HINARI, AGORA and OARE launched their new portals. Six languages are now available, including Arabic and Russian.  These new interfaces simplify access to journals, books, subjects, languages, publishers, PubMed or CAB Abstracts plus the various databases, article searching options and reference sources. 
• The complete list of Books is also available.
•  One significant feature has been added to our portals. Now you can export the complete list of journals from the option ‘View complete list of journals’, selecting ‘All Items’ tab. This is particularly useful for those institutions using Discovery Tools or adding journal links in their library catalogues.
•  Distance Learning Courses in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese are available through ITOCA and Medical Library Association Moodle servers. The courses are a series of PDF files and a Word exercises document. After the evaluation, a certificate is extended. 
• For those involved in Research4Life training, there is a new training module titled ‘Research4Life Programmes Comparison’.  It is an overview of HINARI, AGORA and OARE.  The three websites have similar key access points with the significant differences being the databases that are searched to identify articles.

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