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Education Opportunities


American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Program Dissertation and Postdoctoral Research Awards
The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to revitalize the humanities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda through fellowship competitions and meetings associated with them.
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Human Rights Advocates Program at Columbia University
The four-month residency at Columbia University program prepares proven human rights leaders from the Global South to participate in national and international policy debates on globalization by building their skills, knowledge, and contacts.
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2009 Sexuality Leadership Development Fellowship
The Sexuality Leadership Development Fellowship aims to facilitate the emergence of a new generation of leaders by providing exposure to cutting-edge conceptual, theoretical and programmatic issues in sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights.
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Annual Research Methods Course in Sexual and Reproductive Health & HIV
Specialised Intensive postgraduate training for clinicians, researchers and professionals working in sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.
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Margaret Sanger Centre International South Africa
MSCISA provides cutting edge skills-based training for improving national SRH programmes. The courses provide hands-on, practical instruction for health workers at all levels, programme managers, administrators and policy makers.
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Annual From Research to Practice: Training in Sexual Health Research
Research training programme addressing sexual health. One of the objectives is to strengthen the research capabilities of the participant and through this, the research capacity of their institution.
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Africa Gender Institute
Offers undergraduate and postgraduate to build intellectual capacity and establish an African resource dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners committed to the attainment of gender equity.
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Regional AIDS Training Network
RATN provides training and capacity development for STIs/HIV/AIDS programming in the Eastern and Southern Africa region.
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The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education
RFSU provides advanced training programmes to further the issue of sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people in policymaking and social programmes and to bring changes in the policy environment.
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Sexology SA
Offers a variety of training courses to promote sexual well being, health and happiness in our struggle against HIV & AIDS, abuse, oppression and discrimination.
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Annual Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
Intensive four-week summer programme, which focuses on the study of sexuality across cultures and is taught by an international faculty team.
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Annual NSRC Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society and Health
The NSRC Summer Institute at San Francisco State University is a three-week intensive program focused on sexuality.
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University College London. Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research
Offers research methods and evaluation courses GU Physicians and other Health care Workers within the field of Sexual Health wishing to improve their research skills.
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Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Cultures of Sexuality and Power)
Research programme to contextualise sex and sexuality in relation to intensified contests between men and women, the concurrent destabilisation of old orders of masculinity and newfound public assertiveness of homosexuality.
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Nordic Africa Institute Sexuality, Gender and Society in Africa
Sexuality, Gender and Society in Africa programme aims to develop spaces for critical discussion of sex and gender in Africa, connected to empirical studies and/or political practice, and informed by postcolonial, feminist and queer lines of thinking.
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Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality
Offers training programmes to postgraduate students and new career entrants in the Law, Gender and Sexuality field is an important and integral aspect of the Centre's objectives and activities.
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MPH in Sexuality and Health Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Sexual Health Track of te MPH programm provides public health students with the conceptual tools and practical skills necessary to identify, analyze, and address health issues connected to sexuality.
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Scholarships and Grants



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STARS Impact Awards

The award support organisations committed to achieving excellence in the provision of services to disadvantaged children and encourage the replication of effective approaches and practices.
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Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights

The award is bestowed annually to a leading practitioner in health and human rights and comes with a substantial financial reward to allow its recipients a measure of freedom to pursue their work in the important area of global health and human rights.
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African Women Public Service Fellowship

The award will support tuition, housing, travel to and from the United States and a small stipend to cover books and miscellaneous expenses.
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Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellowship

The fellowhip offers women's rights lawyers from Africa an opportunity to earn a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Georgetown University Law School focusing on international women’s human rights
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Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations

The Campbell Fellowship will support a female social scientist from a developing nation, either pre- or post-doctoral, whose work addresses women’s economic and social empowerment in that nation.
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Open Society Institute Grants

OSI awards grants, scholarships, and fellowships on a regular basis throughout the year. Applicants can determine their eligibility and view relevant initiatives and application guidelines.
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Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health

Grand Challenges in Global Health is a family of grants programs focused on one unifying purpose: To overcome persistent bottlenecks in creating new tools that can radically improve health in the developing world.
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Fellowship for Threatened Scholars

The fellowships support temporary academic positions at universities, colleges and other higher learning institutions in safe locations anywhere in the world.
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Fellowship for an MPH in the field of Social and Behaviour Change Communication

The fellowship will cover tuition, the costs of transport to Johannesburg for courses and student accommodation while in Johannesburg. A small stipend will be provided while in Johannesburg.
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Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti Research Competition for Sexual and Reproductive Health

The Ransome-Kuti Policy and Leadership Development Program will fund 1-2 grants of up to 2,300 USD each, to promote research and documentation in the areas of child survival, primary health care, sexual and reproductive health.
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African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF)

Fellowship program to support doctoral students at African universities whose theses address issues relating to heath systems strengthening in Africa.
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APHRC Fellowships on Sexuality and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Provides four-month residential sabbatical fellowships for senior African scholars to provide intellectual leadership in developing the conceptual and theoretical framework for the study of sexuality.
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San Francisco State University Studies in Human Sexuality Scholarships

Scholarships to support Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University
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Social Science Research Postdoctoral Fellowship on Sexuality and Social Policy

Postdoctoral fellowships to outstanding scholars and other professionals whose research in sexuality focuses on policy analysis, policy development and/or implementation that is relevant to local, state, or national concerns.
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Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) Student Research Grant

Grant of $1,000 to students who are doing human sexuality research.
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International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Scholarship Opportunities

Conference scholarships to individuals from Latin America; Central, South and South-East Asia; The Pacific; Eastern Europe; Africa and the Middle East who are working in sexuality related fields or studying human sexuality.
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Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program

The IFP provides opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide.
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Call for Application: CODESRIA Child and Youth Studies Institute 2007

The institute is designed to assist in building, sustaining and sustaining capacity in Africa in the analysis and understanding of all aspects of the child and youth question in Africa.
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ARSRC Visiting Fellows Programme 2007-2008

Residential fellowship to further the ARSRC's commitment to increase Africa-focused research and publications on sexuality, issues, as well as, build links between scholars and practitioners working in this area in Africa.
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