Fully Funded Master Scholarship in Public Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine offers the Jeroen Ensink Memorial Fund Scholarship for the 2019-20 MSc Public Health for Development programme.

Jeroen Ensink was a Senior Lecturer in Public Health Engineering at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a Course Director for the MSc Public Health for Development between 2009 and 2015. Following his death on 29 December 2015, the School established a Memorial Fund in his name to support students from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia who are committed to improving public health in low- or middle- income countries and wish to undertake the MSc Public Health for Development programme.

Eligibility Criteria

1. Applicants must have been accepted onto the 2019-20 MSc Public Health for Development course.
2. Applicants must have demonstrated a commitment to WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).
3. Applicants must be a citizen of one of the following sub-Saharan African or South Asian countries: Afghanistan; Angola; Bangladesh; Benin; Botswana; Bhutan; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Central African Republic; Chad; Comoros; Republic of Congo; Democratic Republic of Congo; Djibouti; Equatorial Guinea; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; India; Ivory Coast; Kenya; Lesotho; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Maldives; Mali; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mozambique; Namibia; Nepal; Niger; Nigeria; Pakistan; Rwanda; São Tomé and Príncipe; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Sudan; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe.
4. Preference will be given to those applicants with experience or interest in the area of water, sanitation, hygiene and public health.
5. Applicants must meet the School’s minimum English Language Proficiency Requirements if shortlisted for this funding.

A Full Scholarship Covers

1. full-time overseas tuition fees for 2019-20 (including the mandatory field trip fee).
2. flights from the student’s home country to the United Kingdom, and return on expiry of the scholarship (to be booked by the Scholarships team in Registry).
3. a tax free stipend (living allowance) of GBP 16,950.

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