SSPH+ PhD Program Public Health Sciences – the GlobalP3HS flagship

Funded by Marie-Skłodowska-Curie COFUND, SSPH+ launched three calls to competitively recruit 50 PhD students from abroad (see GlobalP3HS website). From more than 342 valid applications, the international jury scored 147 candidates as eligible (score 8-10). With the start of the SSPH+ jubilee year, 50 candidates were successful in finding a matching SSPH+ Faculty member to supervise and co-fund the PhD. The SSPH+ faculty will be supported with approximately 3,6 million Swiss francs of co-funding for these 42-months fellowships. All fellows profit from the SSPH+ Inter-university Graduate Campus.

Fondation Botnar funds change makers: Three additional stipends

Given the long list of eligible GlobalP3HS candidates, Basel based Fondation Botnar agreed to fund a further three students among a selection of six who proposed public health research rooted in the global South and with a focus on child and adolescent health.

Distribution of GlobalP3HS students across universities

Distribution of GlobalP3HS students across nationalities

GlobalP3HS for global capacity building

SSPH+ promoted the “sandwich model” for its PhD Fellowship program. The model is tailored to academic capacity building in the low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). It funds only students from LMICs who conduct their research on questions relevant to LMICs and in partnerships between the Swiss host institution and an academic LMIC partner. Students spend a substantial period of their PhD studies in the focal LMIC. This PhD program lays the foundation to become academic public health leaders in the country. In total, 21 of the GlobalP3HS students won their stipend under the “sandwich model”.