The Ethiopian Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research (CPR – Ethiopia) awards research grants and fellowships from time to time to early career scientists with novel hypotheses for prevention and early detection. That funding is our contribution to training and capacity building, and each call is announced when it opens.
The terms of an award
The terms of an award — its value, its duration, who counts as an early career scientist for this purpose, what a grant may be spent on, how applications are assessed — are set out with the call. The grants and fellowships page carries the same position for a general audience.
Where a proposal is reviewed
The Scientific Research Committee advises the Board of Directors on our research and on the funding of that research. The same committee reviews research projects to ensure that ethical standards are met and that the confidentiality of participants’ information is protected. The International Advisory Board — a network of academic experts and clinicians appointed for expertise in a field relevant to cancer control research — provides high-level advice on an individual project basis. The governance page sets out both functions.
The subject matter the awards are aimed at
Awards are described as being for novel hypotheses in prevention and early detection, which is the ground our research units work on: behaviour and screening participation, cancer health services, outcomes and cost, and tobacco control.
For a researcher deciding where a question would be new, that ground includes cervical screening coverage, whose most recent national estimate is for 2019; the household cost of cancer care, and the share of cancer-affected households facing catastrophic expenditure; and patient-reported outcomes and patients’ experience of services, which are collected directly from patients rather than from routine systems, so both can be measured without a national registry behind them.
Tobacco is a fourth. Ethiopia’s 2024 national adult tobacco survey was fielded and presented at a forum in Addis Ababa in April 2025, and it measured second-hand smoke exposure, quit attempts and public knowledge alongside prevalence. Deposited NCD survey microdata is catalogued in the WHO NCD Microdata Repository (opens in a new tab), which is global and unfiltered, so search it by country.
Ethiopia’s health workforce in 2024
Ethiopia’s health workforce indicators for 2024 record 20,593 medical doctors (opens in a new tab) (indicator HWF_0002), or 1.56 per 10,000 population (HWF_0001); 143,270 nursing and midwifery personnel (HWF_0007), or 10.85 per 10,000 (HWF_0006); 15,615 medical and pathology laboratory scientists; and 12,074 laboratory technicians. Among medical doctors in 2023, 24.3% were women.
Radiotherapy capacity was last recorded in 2021, at 0.09 units per million population (WHO Global Health Observatory, indicator DEVICES22).
Getting in touch
Researchers proposing joint work, and anyone with a question about the awards, can write to cancer.prev.ethio@gmail.com or telephone +251 92 012 4183. The collaborate page sets out what we research and where a proposal goes.