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Health
Nigeria carries a heavy disease burden; maternal and child outcomes and preventable deaths remain far too high for a country with deep clinical and public health research capacity.
Much of that research does not reach practice. The gap is not only knowledge — it is systems that translate evidence into how care is delivered, tracked, and extended.
What we support
We support postgraduate projects that can become working systems — tools that turn clinical data, epidemiological research, and institutional knowledge into practical improvements in care. Projects need identifiable users, a specific system to build, and a deployment path feasible within months. Support covers project development costs, tuition, technical and product direction, and deployment support through the program cycle.
Focus areas
We are particularly interested in projects in these areas, though we will consider any serious proposal with a viable system to build:
- Translating clinical outcomes, epidemiological research, or diagnostic data into usable tools
- Systems that improve how patients are triaged, how conditions are tracked, or how outcomes are measured
- Primary healthcare delivery — extending care through community health workers and lightweight systems
- Resource allocation tools for under-resourced facilities
- Tools deployable through lightweight channels — mobile, SMS, low-bandwidth dashboards
- Health workforce support — tools for clinicians, health workers, and administrators
What a strong project looks like
Strong health projects define a specific problem and a specific set of users — clinicians in a particular facility type, health workers in a defined community context, administrators managing a specific resource. The system to build is bounded and deployable, not a general health platform.
The strongest projects take existing clinical or epidemiological data that already exists within a Nigerian teaching hospital, medical school, or public health programme and turn it into something that improves a real decision — rather than requiring new data collection before any value can be delivered.
Who should apply
Postgraduate students in medicine, public health, nursing, epidemiology, health policy, medical sociology, or related fields. Prior research experience, clinical exposure, or demonstrated engagement with Nigerian health systems and their users is a strong positive signal.