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, intermediate and senior 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.

Applications for Principal Research Fellowships are considered by the Principal Research Fellowship Interview Committee, which is convened twice a year.

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

29-30 March 2012
21-22 June 2012

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

Members

Professor Matthias Egger (Chair)
Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland

Professor Moses Bockarie
Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Professor J Kennedy Cruickshank
King’s College London

Professor Hazel Dockrell
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor David Dunne
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge

Professor Caroline Fall
School of Medicine, University of Southampton

Professor Gagandeep Kang
Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Professor Peter Mugyenyi
Joint Clinical Research Centre, Kampala, Uganda

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

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

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

Dr Danny Altmann
Head of Department (Pathogens, Immunology and Population Health), Wellcome Trust

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