PhD funding opportunity for South African citizens or permanent residents who are students or graduates in medicine, dentistry, or nursing. This funding opportunity is designed to offer flexible and realistic options to clinicians who want to pursue their PhD studies. Funding may be used to provide protected research time from clinical training or clinical service obligations to support PhD studies undertaken in parallel with clinical activities. The use of funds is strictly for research training, i.e., obtaining a PhD.

The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to attract PhD and Masters candidates within the following research fields, which will be given preference: Biostatistics, Bioethics, Bioinformatics, Data Science, Digital Health, Demography, Epidemiology, Environmental Public Health, Evolutionary Virology, Implementation and Translational Science, Health Economics, Genomics, Immunology and Structural Biology.

Funding opportunity for emerging researchers who are at the late stages of their PhDs (last 12-months). The funds can be used for dedicated time to spend on their research activities, pay for work relief, or any justifiable intervention. This Request for Applications particularly encourages applications from SAMRC staff and affiliated postgraduate students for whom completion of their PhD degrees has been directly impacted by the US funding cuts. Such applications may be considered for funding beyond 12 months.

Together with the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is inviting investigators to submit applications with a focus on implementation research, addressing strategies for strengthening of health systems to improve equity in high quality care and health outcomes and reduce the prevalence and impact of non-communicable diseases.

This RFA is an open call for researchers engaged in health research from all recognised South African research institutions for the establishment of new SAMRC Extramural Research Units (EMUs). These new EMUs should provide scientific leadership in key research areas and conduct research where important research questions cannot easily be addressed through short-term grants.

The Human Frontier Science Program Organization, in collaboration with its South African members, the South African Medical Research Council and the National Research Foundation, invites applications for the following HFSP funding opportunities for 2026: HFSP Research Grants; HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowships; HFSP Awardees Meeting