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 can occasionally assist in identifying appropriate
sources as well.
Program funds for stipends and travel grants will
be adjusted to individual circumstances and the availability
of other support.
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 15, 2008.
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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