A 6-week seminar programme by Effective Altruism South Africa and Effective Altruism Nigeria based on the program by Health Progress Hub
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At a Glance
Duration | 6 weeks, June – Aug 2026 |
Time commitment | 4 hours per week |
Location | Online |
Application deadline | Sunday, 21 June 2026 |
Cost | Free |
Who should apply | Students and early-career professionals interested in global health, policy, or advocacy |
Certificate | Awarded upon completion |
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Setting the Stage
About the Programme
Over the past century, we have made remarkable progress in global health - eliminating smallpox, developing vaccines that saved millions of lives, improving nutrition, and removing lead from petrol. Yet enormous challenges persist, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Preventable diseases still claim millions of lives annually. Micronutrient deficiencies affect hundreds of millions of children. Diarrhoea kills hundreds of thousands of children each year. One in two children in LMICs suffers from lead exposure.
We often have the tools to address these problems. Progress remains slow because the global health ecosystem faces critical gaps: insufficient funding for proven interventions, limited advocacy for neglected diseases, and fragmented coordination between organisations. Making real progress requires more people who combine deep concern for these challenges with clear, evidence-based thinking about solutions.
The Global Health Introductory Fellowship is a structured introduction to global health through the lens of policy and advocacy. Over six weeks of seminar discussions, you will explore how global health actually changes: how evidence becomes policy, what makes advocacy work, and why some interventions succeed while others fail. The programme focuses on building your analytical toolkit for understanding complex health problems - it is a starting point, not a destination.
We focus on policy because well-designed policies can create population-level change - a single regulatory change can improve health outcomes for millions. The cross-cutting skills you develop here (understanding disease burden, evaluating evidence, navigating policy processes, and translating research into action) apply across cause areas, from antimicrobial resistance to micronutrient deficiencies.