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A fellowship opportunity is currently available with the Operational Research & Program Effectiveness Team (ORPET) in the Emergency Response and Recovery Branch (ERRB) of the Center for Global Health (CGH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

CGH leverages its core strengths to advance four overarching global health goals:
1) improving the health and well-being of people around the world
2) improving capabilities for preparing for and responding to infectious diseases and emerging health threats 3) building country public health capacity
4) maximizing organizational capacity.

This project focuses on building CDC’s capacity for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programs. The selected participant will develop and support projects that integrate SRH in complex humanitarian emergencies, including material, neonatal, child health and gender-based violence.

The uOttawa-GLUK-UWISON Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Health Research is a one-year research
award,intended to actively support junior researchers who have the passion, commitment, and leadership capacity to use research to address urgent global health challenges. Fellowships must be tailored
to an approved health systems or community health research focus.
The award will support a postdoctoral fellow for 11 months of mentored training on-site at either
University of Ottawa (uOttawa; Ottawa, Canada), The UWI School of Nursing, Mona (UWISON; Kingston,
Jamaica) or Great Lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK; Kisumu, Kenya), along with one-month participation in
the international research internship at either UWISON or GLUK.
For 2015, at least three awards will be available:
• one fellow will be based at the uOttawa with Dr. Nancy Edwards;
• one fellow at UWISON with Dr. Eulalia Kahwa;
Focus must be on chronic non-communicable diseases;
• one fellow to be based at GLUK with Dr. Dan Kaseje. Preference given to East African applicants.

The Department Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, within the Institute of Infection and Global Health, invites applications for a position as a Clinical Research Fellow or a Clinical Research Nurse depending on qualifications and experience. You will be based in the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, Malawi until 30 September 2015 initially.

For both posts you must be registered within the UK and be eligible for registration as a physician or nurse with the Malawi Medical Council.