Global Health Corps Sub-Saharan Africa Fellowship Program for Young Professionals 2024/2025 (Fully Funded)

GHC seeks highly qualified applicants with diverse skill sets and backgrounds for year-long fellowships. Fellows make significant contributions to their placement organizations, engage in robust leadership training, and become part of GHC’s global network.

Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort are now open! Apply by January 2nd, 2024, for priority consideration. Applications close on January 10th, 2024.

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Important Dates (2024-2025 Africa Fellowship)

Applications Open: December 5, 2023
Priority Applications Due: January 2, 2024
Applications Due: January 10, 2024

What is the Fellowship?

Welcome to your leadership journey. The GHC fellowship is an exciting opportunity to build skills and gain experience with a high-impact health organization, but it’s also much more than that. It’s a year that will catalyze your personal and professional growth as a leader, placing you within a global and diverse network of bright, young, and committed health equity champions. It is – we hope – the beginning of the rest of your career working towards equitable health systems.

Participate in Bespoke Training

The fellowship starts with one week of inspiring sessions with thought leaders, bonding with your cohort, and reflections on your role as a next-gen global health leader. Trainings, coaching, and mentorship continue year-round!

Learn as You Go

You will adapt and innovate as you learn the needs of your placement organization, and work to add value and advance health equity. There will be highs and lows, and new learnings every day.

Become Part of a Supportive, Dynamic Global Community

GHC fellows and alumni span borders and boundaries of all kinds but form a tight-knit network united in the belief that health is a human right. Fellows are placed in pairs so there is always someone to turn to.

Build Your Resilience

Transforming health systems is complex, difficult, and long-term work, and you have to bring your whole self. So cultivating resilience, self-care, and empathy as an emerging leader is a core component of our curriculum.

Ideal Applicants

We are looking for a diverse group of high-potential leaders from every sector and professional background who bring the skills necessary to address critical health systems gaps and who embody our key leadership practices:

Collaborative: Value inclusion and collaboration across sectors, cultures, and borders.
Committed to Learning: Willing to push yourself outside your comfort zone.
Inspiring and Mobilizing: Ready to strengthen and use your voice for meaningful social change.
Committed to Social Justice: Passionate about social justice in health.
Adaptive and Innovative: Excited by a design-thinking approach to building a better world.
Results-Driven: Motivated to bring about positive change in the global health equity movement.

Eligibility

By the start of the fellowship, fellows must:

Be 30 years of age or younger.
Hold a bachelor’s or undergraduate university degree.
Be proficient in English.
Be a citizen or legal permanent resident of the eligible countries.

Timeline

Applications Open: December 5, 2023
Priority Applications Due: January 2, 2024
Applications Due: January 10, 2024
Recommendation Forms Due: January 24, 2024
Selecting Our Next Cohort: Review applications January through February, conduct interviews in March and April, and make offers on a rolling basis starting in late April. The fellowship starts at our Training Institute in July 2024.