GHC’s Africa Fellowship 2024-25

GHC recruits and selects highly qualified applicants with diverse skill sets and backgrounds to be placed in high-impact organizations for a year-long fellowship. During their fellowship year, fellows make significant contributions to their placement organizations and the communities they serve. They also engage in robust leadership training and integrate into GHC’s global network.

What is the fellowship?

• 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 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 the curriculum.

Cost Covered

• GHC fellows receive a living stipend that varies based on location. The stipend takes into consideration the local economic indicators, and set at a level appropriate for a professional trainee for that location.
• In addition, fellows are provided with:
  • Housing or a housing allowance;
  • Health insurance; and,
  • Payment for travel to/from the placement site as well as GHC training and retreats for the duration of the fellowship.
• All fellows may also apply during their fellowship year for professional development funds of up to $600 USD. Upon successful completion of the fellowship year, all fellows receive a completion award of $1,500 USD.

Ideal Applicants

• They 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 the key leadership practices:
  • Collaborative.
    • You value inclusion and collaboration across sectors, cultures, and borders of all kinds. You are ready to listen to and embrace others’ perspectives, even when they are different from your own.
  • Committed to learning.
    • You are willing to push yourself outside your comfort zone often (while practicing self-care). You are ready to approach a personally transformative year with integrity, humility, and self-reflection.
  • Inspiring and mobilizing.
    • You are ready to strengthen and use your voice — the most powerful tool for change that you have — in order to engage others, create space for critical conversation, and effect meaningful social change in global health.
  • Committed to social justice.
    • You are passionate about social justice in health and have both the patience and the motivation to engage in the hard, complex work of building just health systems.
  • Adaptive and innovative.
    • You are excited by a design-thinking approach to building a better world, creatively embracing problems and ready to embrace failure as learning.
  • Results-driven.
    • You bring your best self and are motivated to do the day-to-day work needed to bring about positive change in the global health equity movement.

Eligibility Criteria

• 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 Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, or Zimbabwe.

For more information, visit Global Health Corps.