Public Health and Tropical Medicine Interview Committee

The Wellcome Trust recognises the need to nurture and build research capacity in public health and tropical medicine and has set up a specialist committee, the Public Health and Tropical Medicine Interview Committee (PHATIC), to interview fellowship candidates in these areas.

The PHATIC interviews candidates at training and intermediate levels, including:

UK/EEA candidates carrying out public health research in the UK
developing country and UK/EEA candidates carrying out public health or tropical medicine research that includes a significant clinical or fieldwork component in a developing country.

Remit

The PHATIC remit covers research on infectious and non-communicable diseases (either human or animal) of relevance to local, national or global health. This includes:

demographic, social science and health economic studies
epidemiological, field and community based studies
health care systems and policy research
measurement of infectious and chronic disease burden
population studies
clinical trials and case control studies
studies of disease mechanisms in the natural host
determinants of disease susceptibility and resistance
immunity or resistance in natural hosts or vectors.

This can include laboratory-based molecular analysis of field or clinical samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using animal model studies, will not normally be considered by this Interview Committee. UK/EEA fellowship candidates whose projects fall outside of the PHATIC remit, including those focused solely on in vitro and animal model studies will be interviewed by the Basic Science Interview Committee or the Clinical Interview Committee. Applications will be considered by the most appropriate interview committee.

The terms of reference for this Committee are the Standard Terms of Reference for Interview Committees.

Meeting dates

25-27 November 2013
12-14 March 2014
18-20 June 2014

Fellowship applications are accepted subject to the deadline details on the relevant web pages.

Members

Professor Stephen Tollman (Chair)
School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Professor Maureen Coetzee
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Professor Tumani Corrah
Medical Research Council, The Gambia Unit

Professor J Kennedy Cruickshank
King’s College London

Professor Hazel Dockrell
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Caroline Fall
School of Medicine, University of Southampton

Professor Diana Gibb
Medical Research Council, Clinical Trials Unit

Professor Gagandeep Kang
Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Professor Melanie Newport
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex

Professor Stephen Rogerson
Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor Graham Thornicroft
Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London

Professor Peter Winstanley
University of Warwick

Staff members

Dr Karen Noble (Secretary)
Pathogens, Immunology and Population Health Team Manager, Wellcome Trust

Dr Jimmy Whitworth
Head of International Activities, Wellcome Trust

Note: The membership of individual Interview Committees will be drawn from this list and additional external scientific experts may be in attendance.