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Projects, opportunities and resources
Posts from the network since 2018: student projects, scholarship and grant calls, courses and modelling resources, and news. Older calls are kept for reference; check each funder's website for current deadlines.
Projects and proposals
- INVESTIGATING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE IMPLICATIONS DUE TO SMOKING, ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE · 2019
- Evaluation of the presence of Onchocerca volvulus infection in Black fly vectors in the Tunduru focus of Tanzania · 2019
- INVESTIGATING KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING RCH CLINIC · 2019
- IDENTIFYING CHILDREN WITH MALNUTRITION AND MOTHER'S KNOWLEDGE · 2019
- IDENTIFYING THE PRONS AND CONS ON HORMONAL CONTRACEPTIVES USE AMONG WOMEN · 2019
- Modelling Spatial distribution of Invasive plant Parthenium hysterophorus · 2019
- Entomological Surveillance of Onchocerciasis Transmission · 2018
- Onchocerciasis Entomological Surveillance and Modelling · 2018
- Climate Change and Entomological Surveillance of Vector-Borne Diseases During Industrialisation Era in Tanzania · 2018
- Prediction of Patterns Associated with Onchocerciasis Recrudescence · 2018
- Investigating use of ADS to identify temporal patterns associated with RVF epidemics · 2018
Scholarships, grants and jobs
- EDCTP-TDR Clinical Research and Development Fellowships · 2020
- TWAS - PhD Fellowships · 2019
- Call for Applications - DAAD Scholarships · 2019
- The Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND Call is Now Open! · 2019
- New fellowship program will bring African scientists to train at NIH · 2019
- MRC/DFID African Research Leader scheme 2019 · 2019
- ARPPIS-DAAD PhD scholarships for study at icipe · 2019
- PhD Fellowship in modelling the spread and control of African swine fever · 2019
- PhD Fellowship to quantify insect borne transmission of African swine fever virus · 2019
- MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS - INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN) · 2019
- EXPERIENCED CLINICAL PROJECT MANAGER WANTED · 2018
- Assistant Professor: Insect Vectors of Diseases of Public Health · 2018
- Assistant Professor: Quantitative Insect Ecology · 2018
- Postdoctoral Fellowships at NIMBioS · 2018
- ERC Starting Grants Call 2019 Open · 2018
- Assistant Professor – Urban Entomology · 2018
- Challenge-led Grants | Royal Society · 2018
- Early detection of infectious disease threats driven by climate change · 2018
- A/Professor Wildlife Disease Ecology · 2018
- A/Professor Vector-Borne Disease Ecology / Medical Entomology · 2018
- Propose Modeling and Simulation Tools To Improve HIV Prevention Research · 2018
- African Career Accelerator Awards · 2018
- Prestige Postdoctoral Fellowships in France · 2018
- Postdoc - Plant disease ecology · 2018
- Diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases · 2018
- $250k USD grant for young researchers - Letten Prize · 2018
- AAS £25M Award to Early Career Scientists · 2018
- Prize: Early Warning for Epidemics · 2018
- Insect Biologist · 2018
- Targeted Postdoctoral Fellowships at NIMBioS · 2018
- Mathematical modeller of infectious diseases in animals · 2018
- The African Postdoctoral Training Initiative · 2018
- Lecturer, Pest Management and Biosecurity · 2018
- Postdoctoral Position in Vector Biology · 2018
Courses and resources
- Machine-Learning-Tokyo/DL-workshop-series · 2019
- Great R packages by Sharon Machlis · 2018
- A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution · 2018
- Model-based Inference · 2018
- Introduction to R · 2018
- Online PhD course in Ecological Modelling · 2018
- Concepts in Parasitology” Course · 2018
- Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling · 2018
- Short Course on Ecological Modelling · 2018
- Do You Want to Develop your own models? · 2018
News and events
- COVID-19 Becomes Mosquito-borne: Imagining · 2020
- VBDModNet Joins UDSM-MCHAS · 2020
- First Human Trial of Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent Malaria Opens · 2020
- Entomological Surveillance of Onchocerciasis Transmission · 2018
- New Directions in Mosquito Control: A Real Buzzkill · 2018
- Volunteers for Mosquito-Borne Diseases Studies · 2018
- Professor Richard Hill - Thank you for donating to support VBDModNet · 2018
- 7th East African Health and Scientific Conference (EAHSC) · 2018
Publication summaries
- Climate Influence on Emerging Risk Areas for Rift Valley Fever Epidemics in Tanzania · 2018
- Simulation Modelling of Population Dynamics of Mosquito Vectors for Rift Valley Fever Virus in a Disease Epidemic Setting · 2018
- Climate Change Influences Potential Distribution of Infected Aedes aegypti Co-Occurrence with Dengue Epidemics Risk Areas in Tanzania · 2018
- Predicting distribution of Aedes aegypti and Culex pipiens complex, potential vectors of Rift Valley fever virus in relation to disease epidemics in East Africa · 2018
- The Risk of Dengue Virus Transmission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during an Epidemic Period of 2014 · 2018