Scholarship
Coordination of Scholarship Programme
Coordination and awarding of scholarship grants from partner development
agencies is one of the functions of the Network Office. For 2013-2014, TROPMED Network Office awarded a total of 19 scholarships to the regular degree programmes
offered in the three Regional Centres of the Network. The distribution of these scholarships by academic degree program and by recipient country is shown in Tables 1 & 2.
Table 1: Distribution of scholarships by academic degree program, 2013-2014
| Degree Programme | No. of scholars |
|---|---|
| Diploma in Applied Parasitology & Entomology (DAPE) | 5 |
| Diploma in Medical Microbiology (DMM) | 6 |
| Master of Science in Tropical Medicine | 3 |
| M.Sc. in Epidemiology | 1 |
| PhD in Tropical Medicine | 1 |
| PhD in Clinical Tropical Medicine | 3 |
| TOTAL | 19 |
Table 2: Distribution of scholarshipsto the degree programmes by recipient
country, 2013-2014
| Countries | No. of scholars |
|---|---|
| Cambodia | 1 |
| Malaysia
|
5 |
| Myanmar | 6 |
| Philippines | 1 |
| Thailand | 5 |
| Vietnam | 1 |
| TOTAL | 19 |
Provision of Fellowship to Short Courses
In addition to coordinating the scholarships to degree programmes, twenty two (22) fellowships to a number of short courses offered in the TROPMED Centres were provided by the Network Office to health professionals from the Member Countries. The distribution of fellowships by country is shown in Table 3.
Table 3: Distribution of Fellowships awarded by the Network Office by recipient
countries, 2013-2014
| Countries/Centres | No. |
|---|---|
| Brunei | 1 |
| Cambodia | 2 |
| Indonesia | 1 |
| Lao PDR | 3 |
| Malaysia | 4 |
| Philippines | 4 |
| Thailand | 5 |
| Vietnam | 2 |
| TOTAL | 22 |
Student/Staff Exchange Project
A student/staff exchange project was piloted among the three Regional Centres of TROPMED Network coordinated and supported by the Network Office. This was in preparation for the forthcoming ASEAN Economic Community and testing the processes and the logistical requirements involved in student mobility in the region for the first year of operation, 2 students/staff from each Centre will be posted to the other TROPMED Centres for six weeks. At this stage of the pilot testing of the project, credit unit for the course was still given by the sending Centre/Institution. To date one PhD student from TROPMED Thailand and two material students from TROPMED Philippines completed their 6 weeks postings.
- Awarding Ceremony for DAAD Scholarships for Studies in Thailand, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, 3rd December 2015