2019-20 Mansfield Aders and Avebury Memorial Fund Scholarship

About London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is renowned for its research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health. We have an annual research income of more than £140 million and are one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK.

About the Scholarship

Apply for the 2019-20 Mansfield Aders and Avebury Memorial Fund Scholarship in UK. This award is an amalgamation of two awards: the Mansfield Aders Scholarship and the Avebury Memorial Fund. Dr Walter Mansfield Aders, Economic Biologist to the Government of Zanzibar, died in 1934. A bequest to the School endowed a scholarship in medical entomology and parasitology, which was known as the ‘Mansfield Aders Scholarship’.

The Avebury Memorial Fund was a subscription fundraised to provide a memorial for Lord Avebury (1834-1913) who was the Vice Chancellor of the University of London from 1872 to 1880. The award was used for scholarships or research, especially in entomology.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is renowned for its research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health.

The School has an international presence and collaborative ethos and is uniquely placed to help shape health policy and translate research findings into tangible impact. They have 3,000 staff and more than 4,000 students in over 100 countries, all working with a collective purpose to improve health worldwide.

Their mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

Founded in 1899 at the London Docks, LSHTM is now based in Bloomsbury, where it has two main sites at Keppel Street and Tavistock Place. Today, our staff, students and alumni work in government, academia, international agencies and health services across the world.

The school has 3,000 staff working in over 100 countries, including at two MRC Units in The Gambia and Uganda which joined LSHTM in February 2018. Their outstanding, diverse and committed staff make an impact where it is most needed, deploying research in real time in response to crises, developing innovative programmes for major health threats, or training the next generations of public and global health leaders and researchers.

Location: United Kingdom

 Benefits

This full-time one-year studentship provides full tuition fees (at the UK/EU rate), including mandatory field trip fees.

 Eligibilities

This funding opportunity is open to all applicants who hold an offer of admission for 2019-20 entry for MSc Medical Parasitology or MSc Medical Entomology for Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and have been assessed as ‘Home’ for tuition fee purposes (shows on the Offer of Admission)

Deadline

Applications and all necessary supporting documents must be received by midnight (BST) on Monday 6 May 2019.

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