The Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa) is offering a Master’s in Clinical Trials fellowship opportunity to students coming from African institutions. As part of its commitment to support regional capacity for therapeutic development, the Center has developed this Master’s program in Clinical Trials. The program is the first of its kind in Ethiopia and the Region, is designed for the training of experts who are actively contributing to the clinical trials process in Africa. The program’s overall aim is to prepare competent individuals who would work in pharmaceutical industries, regulatory agencies and other research centres, with the primary objective of assisting with the designing, execution and reporting of clinical trials pertaining to drugs, diagnostics, behavioural interventions and medical devices commensurate with Good Clinical Practice, legal, ethical, and regulatory requirements. The MSc program duration is 18 months or 96 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) consisting of 59 ECTS general and specialized subject area modules, 2 ECTS seminar works, 5 ECTS attachments, and 30 ECTS MSc research project works. Lectures will be held at the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, while students will have hands-on teaching-learning at different research projects of the College and the Center as well as partner institutions. The fellowship will start in September 2018.
Eligibility criteria:
To be eligible for the fellowship, the candidate must have a Bachelor Degree in healthcare or life sciences, such as pharmacy, public health, nursing, biology, doctorate degree in medicine or equivalent, doctor of dental medicine, and doctor of veterinary medicine. Those with Bachelor of Statistics are also eligible. It is desirable for applicants to have one or two years of service after last graduation with relevant program to have the exposure to real-life challenges prior to joining the program. Applicants need to meet also the general requirements laid down by the School of Graduate Studies, Addis Ababa University. All institutions within Africa are eligible to apply for the program, but the priority is given to institutions that are active partners of CDT Africa.
Successful applicants will receive the fellowship that covers registration tuition fees. In addition to a modest funding to support research projects of all students. Also, students will have a dormitory within Addis Ababa University and a net stipend of 10,000 Ethiopian birr.
About Centre for Innovative Drug Development
The Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa) is a semi-autonomous, a World Bank supported centre of excellence for education and research at the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The main aim of CDT-Africa is to serve as a platform for equitable access to interventions (medications, vaccines, diagnostics and complex interventions) and bring about sustainable development in Africa through high-quality capacity development for innovative therapeutic discovery.
