The Malaria Capacity Development Consortium (MCDC) is a partnership between three northern partners (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; University of Copenhagen) and five African universities (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal; Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Moshi, Tanzania; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Malawi University, Blantyre, Malawi). The primary objective of this consortium is to improve capacity for research on malaria in Africa. MCDC currently supports 18 PhD students undertaking a PhD at one of the partners African universities and over 30 post-doctoral researchers working at many sites in Africa.MCDC is funded by both the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Further information about the consortium can be found on the MCDC website www.mcdconsortium.org

MCDC is now offering five scholarships (one from each country) for African researchers to undertake an MSc course in a subject relevant to the study of malaria. 

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