Advertiser's description (via ANH Academy):
About ANH Academy Science-Policy Fellowships
The Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy was formed as part of the Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme. Running over two phases from 2015-2024, IMMANA has accelerated progress on tools, data, and capacity needed to guide evidence-based policy in agriculture-food systems, nutrition, and health.
New ANH Academy initiatives build on a decade of fostering a growing global interdisciplinary community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the intersections of agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health. We now pivot towards a programme focused on accelerating policy change for nutrition, while ensuring planetary health and equity. This includes generating, translating and facilitating the uptake of evidence to guide policy change towards improved outcomes, as well as promoting global capability sharing and strengthening networks and collaborations that foster interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral action.
Goal of Science-Policy Fellowships
The new ANH Academy Science-Policy Fellowships will be situated within a wider goal to accelerate actions towards equitable and just food systems for nutrition and health, whilst confronting climate change and protecting nature, through interdisciplinary research, capability sharing and collaboration. The Science-Policy Fellows will have an explicit focus on facilitating food systems and nutrition-related policy change through generating, translating and positioning actionable evidence.
For 2025-26, ANH Academy will award three career development Fellowships to strengthen a Fellow’s ability to:
- Support evidence-based decisions, using results of recently conducted scientifically valid impact assessments, program evaluations, or other policy analyses;
- Build skills and experience in translating and positioning scientific evidence to guide policies and programs that increase the use of healthy diets or reduce loss and waste.
Priority topics for ANH Academy Science-Policy Fellowships
We seek research proposals that provide actionable, robust evidence about the impacts of food systems interventions or policies to improve nutrition or nutrition-related health in Africa and South Asia, concerning one or both of the following topics:
- demand creation for healthy foods, including actions that affect access, affordability, and food choice among available options; and
- food loss and waste, including actions that affect how food flows from production to end-use, and the disposal or non-food use of all crop and livestock products not eaten by people.
Each project should also address one or both of the following cross-cutting themes:
- climate change and the environment, including actions towards more resilient food systems meeting human and planetary health needs at all times and places;
- actions on equity and gender for transformation towards more inclusive food systems meeting health needs for all people, at all stages of the life course.
Program information
This Fellowship offers a competitive stipend to support full-time work and travel, totaling £52,600 for the Fellowship year. Successful applicants may have just completed policy-related research for their doctorate, postdoctoral training or later career stages, and may undertake the Fellowship project while on leave from other responsibilities or as a bridge to their next position. High quality proposals will specify how the project will drive use of recent policy analyses, program evaluations or impact assessments within the Fellowship year, and how building the applicant's policy-related skills will be useful for their future career. The components of a full proposal and specific assessment criteria are further detailed in this document.
Successful proposals will build directly on the candidate’s recent research about one or more policies and programs that have or could be implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, and include the Fellow’s placement in a policy organization for a significant fraction of the year. Proposals include specifying the role of a Policy Mentor typically a senior official in that organization who can ensure relevance of the work for decision making, as well as a Research Mentor, typically a senior scholar familiar with the candidate’s work who can ensure its scientific validity. Policy placements could include formal advisory roles or informal relationships, depending on the organization’s decision-making processes and the kind of policy action to be informed by the project.
Eligibility
Eligible candidates may come from any country or background, with an earned doctorate in any field related to agriculture, nutrition, or health (PhD, DPhil, DPH, MD, DVM or similar degree). We particularly welcome early-career applicants and citizens of LMICs as well as individuals with research or faculty appointments in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.
Please use the FAQs in the Call for Applications as a guide to verify your eligibility and evaluate if your proposal might be a good fit for our aims.
Key dates
- The deadline to submit full proposals is Friday, 14 February 2025.
- Letters of support from Mentors and the hosting Policy Organisation are due on Friday, 28 February 2025.
- Applicants will be notified of their acceptance or rejection no later than 15 April 2025
- Fellowships can begin at any time between June 1st and December 1st 2025.
How to apply
- The full application submission form is here.
- The Call for Applications is here.
- Email anhfellowships@tufts.edu with inquiries or if your encounter difficulties applying.
