AMIU 2022 Health Journalism Scholarship for African Students

Amref International University (AMIU) in partnership with Twitter offers full scholarships to Health journalists to do a short course on Health Journalism and Communication at AMIU.

The course fee is KES 80,000/USD 800 and the programme will be offered virtually tsuccessful applicants. The aim of the course is to enhance knowledge, build skills and nurture competencies of journalists, Public Relations Officers and health managers on all aspects related to health reporting.

• Table of Content
• About Amref International University (AMIU)
• Health Journalism Scholarship
• Aim and Benefits of Health Journalism Scholarship
• Requirements for Health Journalism Scholarship Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Amref International University (AMIU)

Amref International University (AMIU) was established in 2017 as a Premier Pan African University of health sciences fully owned by Amref health Africa. AMIU is founded on the experience and intellect of Amref Health Africa, which is reputed with over 60 years of quality and innovative public and community health interventions in over 30 countries in Africa. With this work, the need to train health workers in communities was evident and the response was short tenure training courses by the Amref Training Centre (AITC) and later the Directorate of Capacity Building (DCB), the predecessor of AMI... continue reading

Health Journalism Scholarship

Aim and Benefits of Health Journalism Scholarship

Scholarship is fully funded.

Requirements for Health Journalism Scholarship Qualification

To be considered for this scholarship, the following criteria must be met:

• Completion of Application. The applicant must complete the entire application required, including providing all documentation requested in the application or otherwise requested.
• Submission of documentation. The applicants are required to submit their resume and links or attachments of health related stories to [email protected]
• Geographical restrictions. Must be a practicing African health journalist reporting on health and medical issues across Africa.
• Deadline. The application must be received by 31st August 2022. Only complete applications with all required supporting materials that are received by the published deadline will be considered by the Scholarship Application Evaluation team.
• Eligibility. Each Scholarship recipient shall meet all eligibility requirements described above.
• Scoring. Applicants will be scored based on the quality of the content provided and their work as health journalist in their respective countries.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Once the scholarship evaluation team has selected and approved the list of successful candidates, the list will be submitted to Amref International University.
• All applicants will receive written communication informing them of the outcome of their application, as well with information on the registration procedure.
• Applicants who are awarded this scholarship will have one week from the date of notification to accept the award. If documentation is not submitted before the deadline, the scholarship offer will be withdrawn.

For more details, visit AMIU website.