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Valuing Our Stories

The Faculty of Health Sciences is embarking on a project called Valuing Our Stories. Part of this journey is to locate stories in the broader story of the University of Cape Town, and especially in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
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Best Publication awards

Celebrating the FHS Best Publication Awardees

Six researchers from the Faculty of Health Sciences were awarded the Best Publication Award at the faculty’s Research Forum which took place at the Neurosciences Institute on 17 October 2024.

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Professor Sithombo Maqungo

UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Sithombo Maqungo

28 November 2024
(Ends 28 November 2024)
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Professor Sithombo Maqungo will present his inaugural lecture titled “Been there, fixed that, presented there and published that. Is this all there is to the life of an academic trauma surgeon?” on 28 November 2024.
28 November 2024
(Ends 28 November 2024)
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Health Sciences Notice board

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  • Funding Opportunity Announcement:  Wellcome Trust Awards 

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    The Wellcome Trust seeks to fund researchers addressing important questions relating to life, health, and wellbeing, with creative approaches that push boundaries. Applications are requested from researchers through innovative projects, that will deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health, and wellbeing.  

    Two grant schemes are available: 

    • Early-Career Awards scheme, for researchers ready to develop their research identity 
    • Career Development Awards scheme, for researchers with the potential to be international research leaders 

    Research proposals may be in any discipline - including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health - as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the Wellcome Trust’s funding remit.   

    Award details:   

    • Early-Career Awards scheme:  
      • Grants are available for up to five years and applicants may request salary and up to £400,000 for research expenses. 
    • Career Development Awards scheme:  
      • Grants are available for up to eight years and applicants may request salary (if required) and the resources required for their research programme. 

    Funder deadlines (3 deadlines per year): 

    • Early-Career Award: 15 February, 21 May & 01 October 2024 
    • Career Development Award: 11 April, 25 July & 26 November 2024 

    Please find the full call for the Early-Career Award opportunity here, and for the Career Development Award opportunity here. 

  • Call for applications: Master of Public Health Bursary - Empilisweni Centre

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    Deadline for submission: Rolling deadline in 2024

    Empilisweni Centre aims to strengthen capacity in clinical services and implementation science in South Africa through training and mentoring emerging researchers focussed on cancer prevention and control.

    The Centre will offer up to two scholarships to support new or enrolled students in the Masters In Public Health (MPH) programme. They seek highly motivated students with public health interests in either cancer control, health systems research, health economics, epidemiology, socio-behavioural and implementation science, to join their interdisciplinary research group. The candidate should have expressed interest in public sector service, health service or implementation research, or related areas.

    For more information, please read the full announcement here.

  • NIH: Halting Tuberculosis Transmission [R01 Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-AI-24-049)] 

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    NIH: Halting Tuberculosis Transmission [R01 Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-AI-24-049)]  

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks applications for Halting Tuberculosis (TB) Transmission; R01 Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-AI-24-049). The purpose of this funding opportunity is to understand the critical drivers of TB transmission at the individual and population levels in high-burden settings; to develop effective methods to measure rates of TB transmission that rely on an increased understanding of the biomedical basis of transmission and related risk factors; and assess potential interventions, including low-cost and low-tech options, to prevent TB transmission and detect infectious TB.  

    Award details:  

    $750,000 in direct costs per year, for up to 5 years 

    Eligibility:  

    Researchers with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Principal Investigator 

    Download the pdf outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval   

    Funder deadline:  

    04 December 2024