“Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize / Fondation Pierre Fabre” excellence scholarship to train healthcare professionals from the Global South

13/03/2024

As part of its ongoing efforts to provide training and improve access to healthcare among vulnerable populations, the Fondation Pierre Fabre funds an excellence scholarship. It aims to support training in global health for healthcare professionals from the Global South, to lead scientific research work in the field of women’s health.

Applications are open from March 18 to April 15, 2024.

Since 2023, the Fondation Pierre Fabre has been funding an annual scholarship for a student of the Bordeaux School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Development (ISPED) who comes from the Global South. The Fondation Pierre Fabre has been a partner of the Noble Peace Price laureate Denis Mukwege since 2018 within the framework of programs for the care of victims of gender-based sexual violence.

Beatrice Garrette, Managing Director of the Fondation Pierre Fabre, explains: “Through this Dr. Denis Mukwege / Fondation Pierre Fabre scholarship, we are striving to improve medical and scientific expertise in the Global South, in keeping with the Foundation’s mission to improve access to healthcare among vulnerable populations and its commitment to combating gender-based sexual violence.”

Dr. Denis Mukwege adds: “However we’ve been brought up, there’s something in us that is profoundly human and urges us to reach out to others.”

This scholarship is open to healthcare professionals (doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, nurses, midwives) from French-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa and south-east Asia who wish to follow the Global Health in the Global South Master’s program at ISPED and conduct research on the topic of women’s health in their home country. Research subjects relating to the prevention and management of gender-based sexual violence will be given special consideration.

Financial support for one year

The scholarship funded by the Fondation Pierre Fabre is intended to cover registration fees, travel and living expenses during the 7 months of in-person training in Bordeaux, and then throughout the 5 months of research in the laureate’s home country.

This new scholarship supplements the “Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine / ANRS | Emerging Infectious Diseases” excellence scholarships, which have existed for 10 years already and, based on the same principle, provide funding every year to healthcare professionals from the Global South looking to enroll in the Global Health in the Global South Master’s program run by ISPED and conduct research on infectious diseases in their home country.

The two excellence scholarships, “Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize/ Fondation Pierre Fabre” and “Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine / ANRS | Emerging Infectious Disease” will be awarded by a joint selection committee made up of around fifteen international experts, and will be co-chaired by the two Nobel Prize winners who lend their name to the scholarships.

You can find more information about the selection process on the ISPED website