Programme Thesis
The EHPS LMIC Conference Grants fund attendance at the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) conference for individuals from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), aiming to promote rigorous health psychology science and foster international collaboration and career development. The grant exists to reduce financial barriers and enable LMIC-based researchers and practitioners to participate in and contribute to the EHPS community.
Selection Criteria
- Applicant must be from an eligible LMIC country (per ISI list; Nigeria is eligible).
- Application must be submitted electronically to grants@ehps.net.
- Review by committee including Grants Officer, Synergy reviewer, and CREATE reviewer.
- Criteria likely include: relevance to health psychology, scientific merit, potential for career development and networking, and clarity of proposed conference participation.
- Awardees must commit to writing a collective conference report for European Health Psychologist and a 300-500-word individual short report on career/networking impact.
Past Winners / Cohort Profiles
No specific past winners are listed on the page. Based on the programme's focus, past winners are likely early-career researchers, practitioners, or students from LMICs working in health psychology, public health, or digital health, who demonstrate strong potential to benefit from conference attendance and contribute to the EHPS community.
Ideal Candidate Fingerprint
The ideal applicant is a health psychology researcher or practitioner from an LMIC with a clear plan to attend the EHPS conference, present work or network with collaborators, and who can articulate how the experience will advance their research and career. They should have a strong academic background and a commitment to disseminating their learnings through the required reports.
Recommended Framing
For Eniola Olutogun, the strongest angle is to frame the venture's work as a digital health intervention addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in LMICs, specifically Nigeria, which aligns with health psychology's focus on behavior change and health promotion. The grant should be positioned as a means to attend the EHPS conference to learn about implementation science and behavioral strategies to improve adoption of AI-driven diagnostics in low-resource settings, thereby enhancing the venture's impact. This directly ties the venture's computational biology innovation to the health psychology mission of the grant.
Watch Out
The grant is specifically for conference attendance, not for venture development or research funding. The applicant's work is primarily computational biology and AI, not traditional health psychology, which may be seen as a poor fit unless the application explicitly connects to health behavior and LMIC health challenges. Additionally, the venture is pre-incorporation and pre-revenue, which may not be a concern for this grant, but the applicant must demonstrate a clear career development benefit from attending the conference.
Research History
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