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Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the Sabin Vaccine Institute launches an 8 day-long training programme “Reporting on Immunisation and Vaccination”.
The form is for English-language course which will run from 30th of November to 9th of December. If you are interested in Russian-language course (from 7th to 16th of December) - please follow this link (https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5405703/).
The programme will be covering a wide scope of immunisation-related topics: the role of vaccines in public health, new and emerging issues particularly around COVID-19 vaccines, and the responsibility of media in educating the public about misinformation on vaccines and immunization.
The programme consists of 4 days of online training, followed by 4 days of one-to-one online mentoring for all participants. £250 story grants and ongoing mentoring for 8 weeks will be available to selected applicants following the course.
Applicants who are interested in issues related to health reporting and the current issues on immunisation are encouraged to apply, as well as specialist health reporters. Applicants should have a minimum of two years’ professional experience and a good level of spoken and written English to apply to the English-language course, or a good level of spoken and written Russian to apply to the Russian-language course. The applicants must live and work in one of the countries of South Caucasus or Moldova.
The deadline is November 22. Successful applicants will be notified by November 25. Thomson Reuters Foundation does not comment the selection results.
To apply for the programme please complete this form.
You will be able to save your application and continue it later, by clicking the link at the top of the next page.
If you have issues with application form submitting, please contact Emine Ziyatdinova: emine.ziyatdinova@thomsonreuters.com.