Health Systems Global (HSG) and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) are committed to suppor in collaboration with Health Policy and Planning, invite early-career women based in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and working on HPSR issues, who are interested to publish their HPSR research for the first time in the Global peer-reviewed journal but require guidance and support to submit a manuscript which has the potential to be published.

Prospective mentees must:

• Be early-career women willing to publish a paper relevant to the field of health policy or health systems research and related to the theme or any of the sub-themes of 6th Global Symposium of Health Systems Research;
• Be resident and working in an LMIC setting;
• Be able to develop the abstract and scientific paper in English;
• Not have any previous publications in a peer-reviewed journal with Global reach as a lead author;
• Require guidance through a one-to-one mentorship to prepare a high-quality, publishable manuscript for a peer-reviewed journal.

Interested applicants are requested to submit a short motivation letter, and an abstract of their completed research work (500 words max), which they intend to convert into a fully developed scientific paper for publishing in the journal. Abstracts and motivation letters must be submitted online by the deadline of September 6th, 2019.

For more information and to apply, please see HSG site and the Call-for-Mentees2019.