Global Health Corps (GHC) invites young professionals from Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to apply for paid 13-month fellowships with health organizations in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.
Work on the Front Lines of Global Health and Develop Leadership Skills
GHC seeks highly qualified applicants with diverse skill sets and backgrounds for year-long fellowships. Fellows make significant contributions to their placement organizations, engage in robust leadership training, and become part of GHC’s global network.
Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort are now open! Apply by January 2nd, 2024, for priority consideration. Applications close on January 10th, 2024.
Important Dates (2024-2025 Africa Fellowship)
- Applications Open: December 5, 2023
- Priority Applications Due: January 2, 2024
- Applications Due: January 10, 2024
What is the Fellowship?
Welcome to your leadership journey. The GHC fellowship is an exciting opportunity to build skills and gain experience with a high-impact health organization, but it’s also much more than that. It’s a year that will catalyze your personal and professional growth as a leader, placing you within a global and diverse network of bright, young, and committed health equity champions. It is – we hope – the beginning of the rest of your career working towards equitable health systems.
Participate in Bespoke Training
The fellowship starts with one week of inspiring sessions with thought leaders, bonding with your cohort, and reflections on your role as a next-gen global health leader. Trainings, coaching, and mentorship continue year-round!
Learn as You Go
You will adapt and innovate as you learn the needs of your placement organization, and work to add value and advance health equity. There will be highs and lows, and new learnings every day.
Become Part of a Supportive, Dynamic Global Community
GHC fellows and alumni span borders and boundaries of all kinds but form a tight-knit network united in the belief that health is a human right. Fellows are placed in pairs so there is always someone to turn to.
Build Your Resilience
Transforming health systems is complex, difficult, and long-term work, and you have to bring your whole self. So cultivating resilience, self-care, and empathy as an emerging leader is a core component of our curriculum.
Ideal Applicants
We are looking for a diverse group of high-potential leaders from every sector and professional background who bring the skills necessary to address critical health systems gaps and who embody our key leadership practices:
- Collaborative: Value inclusion and collaboration across sectors, cultures, and borders.
- Committed to Learning: Willing to push yourself outside your comfort zone.
- Inspiring and Mobilizing: Ready to strengthen and use your voice for meaningful social change.
- Committed to Social Justice: Passionate about social justice in health.
- Adaptive and Innovative: Excited by a design-thinking approach to building a better world.
- Results-Driven: Motivated to bring about positive change in the global health equity movement.
Eligibility
By the start of the fellowship, fellows must:
- Be 30 years of age or younger.
- Hold a bachelor’s or undergraduate university degree.
- Be proficient in English.
- Be a citizen or legal permanent resident of the eligible countries.
Timeline
- Applications Open: December 5, 2023
- Priority Applications Due: January 2, 2024
- Applications Due: January 10, 2024
- Recommendation Forms Due: January 24, 2024
- Selecting Our Next Cohort: Review applications January through February, conduct interviews in March and April, and make offers on a rolling basis starting in late April. The fellowship starts at our Training Institute in July 2024.
Create an account below or by clicking here and log in to start an application. You will need to use a computer (not a tablet or smartphone) with one of the web browsers listed on this page.
For more information, including video tutorials for completing the application, check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page for the Africa fellowship. To preview the application questions and prepare your answers without logging in, see our Africa fellowship application preview. All application submissions are done online – we do not accept applications by email.
Be sure to add applyinfo@ghcorps.org and no-reply@email.zenginehq.com to your contacts list so our status update emails don’t go to your spam folder!
Info session:
To learn more about the fellowship directly from GHC alumni, fellows, and staff, register for our info-session on December 13th: https://lnkd.in/dv_KRCuf