Scholarship Program

IAHPC believes that palliative care workers, in addition to being health care providers, may also be effective agents of change in their own countries and settings.

The goal of the Scholarship Program is to provide financial assistance to palliative care professionals to attend national events that will enable them to improve palliative care in their settings. These should ultimately lead to better and adequate policies and/or institutional norms, increased access to palliative care, as well as access to essential medicines for pain relief and palliative care.

This is an ongoing program, so there are no deadlines for applications unless stated. However, applications should be submitted to the IAHPC no later than 3 months in advance of the expected starting date of the activity. Scholarships will be announced in Pallinews and Special Announcements.

The Scholarship Program provides support to participate in national conferences, workshops, congresses, and events sponsored by the corresponding national palliative care association. This program does not provide funding for tuition of formal degree programs or clinical placements or international events.

For an applicant to receive a Scholarship, the national event must be listed in the IAHPC Calendar of Events. If the event is not listed, please direct the event organizers to add the event to the calendar. Listing the event in the IAHPC calendar is free.

To apply for a scholarship applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Be current IAHPC members. If you wish to apply and are not an IAHPC member, join online.
• The applicant's membership expiration date should be after the final date of the event.
• The national association sponsoring the event must be an institutional member.

Preference will be given to applicants who:

• Have an accepted abstract for poster / oral presentation. The IAHPC will contact the Event Contact Person to verify your abstract has been accepted to present a poster or oral presentation.
• Have been IAHPC active members for two or more consecutive years.
• Are dedicated full-time to palliative care in their current work.
• Have not received grants from IAHPC in the past 3 years.
• Are living in Low- or Middle-income countries, as per the World Bank income classification data.
• Graduated less than 10 years ago from university.

All applicants need to describe long term goals which lead to improvements in any or all of the following areas: service provision; education; availability of and access to medicines; and public policy.

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