Requirements

Who can apply

• You must have completed a doctorate (PhD, DPhil, DPH, MD, DVM or similar) in a field related to agriculture, nutrition or health.

• You must be active in research, education or engagement linking two or more of these fields before the fellowship starts.

• You can be of any nationality and can have earned your doctorate anywhere.

Project and mentor requirements

• Your project must evaluate the impact of a programme, policy or intervention related to agriculture, nutrition and health.

• It must focus on demand for healthy diets, or on food supply, loss and waste. It must also address climate and the environment, or equity and gender (or both).

• You need two mentors: a Research Mentor from your current or past employer or academic institution, and a Policy Mentor from the public-sector organisation where you will do your placement.

• The Policy Mentor must be physically located in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.

• Your project should build on your own earlier policy analysis, programme evaluation or impact assessment work.

• You may submit only one full proposal.

Especially encouraged

• Applicants who want to build careers, or already work, at a research institute or university in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.

• Citizens of low- and middle-income countries. The programme also aims for equal representation of all genders.

Other conditions

• Fellows arrange and pay their own taxes, insurance and other fees.

• Fellows and their institutions are responsible for any visas or work permits. ANH Academy and Tufts cannot sponsor visas.