Application Instructions and Materials

Applicants should have completed graduate degrees and demonstrated potential leadership capacity in their home countries. They are expected to show strong promise and appropriate preparation (including facility in English) to enable them to benefit from a period at Harvard. Further, they are expected to have made, or intend to make, a commitment to a career in health for which participation in the Program will be of significant value. Applications may come from any relevant discipline or profession (e.g., medicine, law, public health, economics, management, and social sciences).

Applicants should take the initiative to identify and obtain potential sources of funding for the Fellowship. The Takemi Program does not provide funding, but can occasionally assist in identifying appropriate sources.

Required Application Materials:

Application information sheet
Curriculum vitae
Publications list
Short publication sample
Proposal of research and writing to be undertaken during the Fellowship
Three letters of reference

The proposal should not exceed five typewritten pages and should include a clear statement of objectives, significance or relevance, data sources, and methodology. The proposal should discuss how the Fellowship at Harvard will contribute to strengthening the capabilities of the applicants country.

Applications and proposals must be received by March 1, 2010. Applicants will be notified of the Program's decision in early May. Fellows are expected to begin their appointments on September 1 of each year, for ten months.

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