Deadline: August 12, 2024
Applications are open for the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Technical Fellowship 2024. UICC’s Technical Fellowships provide cancer professionals the chance to gain new knowledge, skills and techniques in cancer control through short learning visits of two weeks to two months’ duration. This specific fellowship opportunity was originally launched in 1976 and was called the International Cancer Research Technology Transfer awards (ICRETT) and has facilitated knowledge exchange for the last four decades.
Building on the experience of 2023 call, UICC will open a short, competitive call for applications with a strong emphasis on public health and the training of health professionals on cost-effective and evidence-based cancer control strategies and interventions relevant to and appropriate to the applicant’s context, and the wider health system.
Fellowships will be prioritised that focus on preventing cancer or detecting it early as well as those projects that ensure equitable access to affordable and effective treatment and the supportive and palliative care of cancer survivors. Fellowship topics can include cancer research, if it is implementation, translational or clinical research that leads directly to improved health and well-being of cancer patients.
Funding
- Two weeks – $2,200 USD
- Three weeks – $2,800 USD
- Four weeks – $3,400 USD
- Five weeks – $4,000 USD
- Six weeks – $4,600 USD
- Seven weeks – $5,200 USD
- Eight weeks – $5,800 USD
If selected, UICC will calculate the award amount based on the duration of the fellowship visit requested, the published average living costs for the host country and an estimation of the return economy class travel costs from the home country to the host country.
Eligibility
Open to Public health professionals including epidemiologists, health educators, social workers, nutritionists, administrators and other specialised professionals working in the field of cancer control; cancer researchers performing translational, clinical and/or implementation research; clinicians, nurses and pathologists.
- Applicants must hold a minimum of a master’s degree, while qualified medical doctors may be considered in the absence of a higher degree (i.e an MD) if they hold or are within a year of holding a board certification (or equivalent) in a cancer-related specialty, and registered nurses who have an RN qualification are also eligible to apply.
- An equivalent one-year’s training qualification in a specialty related to cancer post university degree can be accepted as an equivalent to a master’s degree, for example training as a cancer registrar.
- All candidates should have worked in the field of cancer for at least five years prior to applying.
- Medical and PhD Students are not eligible to apply.
Application
For more information, visit UICC Technical Fellowship.
