Applied Epidemiology & EECID short courses
Applications for the following short courses from the ITM Department of Biomedical Sciences are now open:
- Short Course: “Applied Epidemiology”
Participants should already have strong experience in: "Data analysis in R", "Basic statistics (hypothesis testing, significance)" and "Concepts of diagnostic tool performance (sensitivity, specificity)".
Timeline: 21/09/2026 - 09/10/2026 (F2F at ITM, Belgium)
For additional info, admission requirements and registration: https://www.itg.be/en/study/courses/applied-epidemiology/2026
Registration deadline: 31/05/2026
DGD Scholarships: detailed info: https://www.itg.be/en/study/scholarships-to-study-at-itm
With the financial support of the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGD), the Institute of Tropical Medicine is able to offer scholarships to applicants from developing countries.
Please note that admission to a programme or short course does not guarantee a scholarship or other financial support.
You can apply for the DGD scholarship, whilst applying for the Programme/Course.
The admission requirements of the DGD scholarships:
- Admission to the course
- You’re less than 46 years old at the end of the course or at graduation
- Citizens from any low or middle-income country (LMIC) can apply. Applicants need to be both citizen of and actually living in a LMIC as defined in the OECD-DAC list of LMICs. A majority of scholarships, but not all, will be awarded to citizens from the countries defined as priority countries for DGD. The DGD priority country list includes: Benin, Bolivia, Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cuba, DRC, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South-Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe.
2) Short Course“Ecology, Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases (EECID)”:
Timeline: 28/09/2026 - 29/01/2027 (Online)
For additional info, admission requirements and registration: https://www.itg.be/en/study/courses/ecology-epidemiology-and-control-of-infectious-diseases/
Registration deadline: 01/08/2026
Available Scholarships: None