Call for Applications

TDR Postgraduate Scholarship in Implementation Research

Academic Year 2025-2027

Extended Deadline for Application : 30 April 2025 

Description

Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for a place in the following full-time postgraduate programme, with a focus on implementation research (IR) for the 2025-2027 Academic Year.

Funding for these full scholarships is from TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, based at the World Health Organization in Geneva. Only applicants from low- and middle-income countries of WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions are eligible.

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We would like to inform you that the announcement of the selection results for the TDR’s Implementation Science Leadership Fellowship Programme for Public Health Impact – 2025/2026 has been POSTPONED.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and understanding. The updated announcement schedule will be shared soon through IR-TDR FK-KMK UGM’s official channels.

Thank you for your enthusiasm and participation!

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Call for Applications

TDR’s Implementation Science Leadership Fellowship Programme for Public Health Impact – 2025/2026

Deadline for applications:  14 January 2025 at 17:00 (CET)

DESCRIPTION

The Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which supports TDR’s Postgraduate Training Scheme and Regional Training Centres, invites qualified candidates to apply for the Implementation Science (IS) Leadership Fellowship Programme for Public Health Impact for the academic year 2025/2026.

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TDR Students from 3rd batch (Kinley Gyem-Bhutan) and 4 th batch (Pham Huong Giang-Vietnam) was participated in the Faculty Fair talk show in Graha Sabha Pramana UGM which held on 31 November – 1 December 2019.

Full video of Faculty Fair, please click below :

It is privilege to have students from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Timor Lester and Indonesia, to take parts as international students on this postgraduate program supported by the World Health Organization-Tropical Disease Research (WHO-TDR). The total students of this batch is 15 students.

Universitas Gadjah Mada in collaboration with WHO TDR has been initiating Graduate Program on Public Health-Special Program of Implementation Research on Tropical Diseases since December 2015. The program curricullum is designed with Public Health syllabus as its core and Tropical Medicine for its elective topics. This idea of this program was to enhance future researchers capacity in designing and conducting implementation research, particularly on tropical disease which are still common in South East Asia region. The program curricullum consist if participatory teaching methods such mini lecture, case study, field visit and course project.

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 The Global Conference on Implementation Science and Scale up was held in Bangladesh from 29^th June to 1^st July 2019. The conference showcased the role of Implementation Science in promoting a culture of evidence based health and other social development programmes, policies and practices. There was a TDR Postgraduate Scheme Networking meeting session on 2^nd July, 2019 at Center of Excellence for Science of Implementation and Scale-Up (CoE-SISU), BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University.

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Ezra Valido

Randeep Kumar

Ashmin Bhattarai

Tilak Nath 2

Tilak Nath

Prativa Karki

Basant Joshi

• Tilak Chandra Nath (Batch 1)
• got promoted to “Sr. Assistant professor” and also join as “Administrative Member” of The Faculty of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Science, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh.
• Awarded “University Award of Excellence” on last 15 February 2018
• Ph.D at Chungbuk National University, South Korea

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