Overview

The nutrition fellowships provided by the Nestlé Nutrition Institute enable young health professionals from developing countries to access postgraduate training through leading institutions. Since 1981, more than 500 doctors and scientists have benefited from our fellowships and clinical grants.

Details

The Nestle Nutrition Institute offers grants for research skills trainings which can help in performing research in the fields of mother and child health and nutrition. We offer these fellowship grants to health professionals from anywhere in the world* applying for post-graduate research training. The duration of the training can last up to 12 months. All institutions offering a training programme in the area of Maternal and/or Child Health and Nutrition are eligible to be a host institution.

What is this Fellowship Grant for?

To attend a training program on research skills and knowledge.Such program could include, but is not limited to: learning a specific laboratory technique, statistics, nutrition, etc.

Location: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Africa

Opportunity is About: Medicine, Nursing & Psychology

Candidates should be from Vietnam and >100 other countries

Description of Ideal Candidate:

• Fellowships are available for post graduate qualifications only.
• Fellow has to be affiliated with an academic/clinical institution
• Potential candidates should submit an application describing their interest in participating in the NNI Research training Fellowship.

Deadline: Always Active

Cost/funding for participants:

Fully Funded

The NNI grant up to 40’000 CHF can be used to pay course registration fees, round trip travel to the host institution, lodging and living expenses and health insurance coverage for the duration of the course. The amount of 40’000 CHF applies for the longer length projects (12 months). A proportion of this amount will be paid to shorter duration projects. The NNI grant will be given to the Host Institution which will disburse it to the fellow. In no case will any money be given directly from the NNI to the fellow.

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