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NIHR Global Health Research Groups: Call 4
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The NIHR's fourth Global Health Research call for Groups. UK universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications, working in equitable partnerships with researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) eligible to recieve Official Development Assistance (ODA), to develop their ambitions to deliver world-class applied global health research to address under-funded or under-researched global health areas specific to those countries. The partnerships support both identified training and capacity needs for academy research and programme support functions in low resource settings. Together these provide an important, sustainable platform for future research and resilience in those countries. Global Health Reseach Group funding is available to research groups either new to delivering applied health research globally or that wish to expand an existing partnership. Through this call, awards up to £3 million over a period of up to four years are available to NIHR Global Health Research Groups.
NIHR Global Health Research Units: Call 2
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The NIHR's second Global Health Research call for Units. UK universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications, working in equitable partnerships with researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), to develop their ambitions to deliver world-class applied global health research to address under-funded or under-researched global health areas specific to those countries. Global Health Research Units are defined as a well-established research partnership or network of universities and research institutes in LMICs and the UK: 1. With an existing track-record of delivering internationally recognised applied global health research addressing unmet health needs in ODA-eligible countries; 2. Who wish to consolidate and expand this work, supporting and developing thematic research and capacity strengthening networks, through regional and global hubs; 3. Who will deliver a large scale, ambitious programme of applied health research through a range of trials and studies; 4. Who are able to leverage the strength of the existing partnership consortium to improve practice and inform policy based on scientific evidence; 5. Who will set up and deliver a substantial and sustainable programme of capacity and capability strengthening at individual and institutional level.
NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR has identified health policy and systems research (HPSR) as a strategic global health research priority. Through a process of stakeholder consultation, NIHR aims to develop a portfolio of activities that will support health policy and systems research for the direct and primary benefit of people in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research Consortia
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research (Global HPSR) programme funds health policy and systems research that is directly and primarily of benefit to people in low and middle income countries (LMICs), and to improve access to appropriate and affordable health services aligned with the aims of Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goal 3. The Global HPSR Consortia call supports broad ambitious programmes of health policy and systems research and capacity strengthening delivered through a consortium of partners. UK and LMIC universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications including two joint lead applicants, at least one of whom must be employed by a LMIC institution.
NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research Projects: Call 1
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research (Global HPSR) programme funds health policy and systems research that is directly and primarily of benefit to people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to improve access to appropriate and affordable health services aligned with the aims of Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goal 3. Global HPSR Projects Call 1 supports applied health policy and systems research projects. UK and LMIC universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications including either a sole LMIC Lead Applicant, or two Joint Lead Applicants from either a LMIC or the UK, at least one of whom must be employed by a LMIC institution.
NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation: Call 1
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s first Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) call. RIGHT funds cutting-edge interdisciplinary applied health research in key areas in in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where a strategic and targeted investment can result in a transformative impact. RIGHT Call 1 addresses research in three key areas: epilepsy, infection-related cancers and severe stigmatising skin diseases. UK universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications including a co-applicant or joint lead applicant from an LMIC relevant to the research proposal. Research must be focused on improving the health and welfare of people in LMICs.
NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation: Call 3
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)'s third Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) call. RIGHT funds cutting-edge interdisciplinary applied health research in key areas in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where a strategic and targeted investment can result in a transformative impact. RIGHT Call 3 supports equitable partnerships between LMIC and UK researchers to generate new research knowledge and evidence on interventions to improve outcomes for those affected by multimorbidity in ODA-eligible countries. UK universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications including a co-applicant or joint lead applicant from an LMIC relevant to the research proposal. Research must be focused on improving the health and welfare of people in LMICs.
WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research Partnership
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR works in partnership with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR), a hosted partnership of the World Health Organization (WHO), to fund the generation and use of health policy and systems research as a means to strengthen the health systems of Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase II
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR provided funding to the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) which aims to support collaborative research that accelerates the clinical development of new or improved interventions to prevent or treat poverty related diseases as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa. The NIHR has supported research calls as part of the 2016, 2017 and 2018 workplans, in addition to programme management activities associated with enhancing the wider programme.
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase III
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR provides funding to the Global Health European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership 3 (Global Health EDCTP3) Joint Undertaking which works to deliver new solutions to reduce the burden of poverty-related infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and to strengthen research capacities to prepare and respond to re-emerging infectious diseases. Global Health EDCTP3 builds on EDCTP Phase 2, which NIHR has been contributing to since 2016 (GB-GOV-10-EDCTP2). As EDCTP transitions to Global Health EDCTP3, calls under the new work packages will support further clinical research and training in sub-Saharan Africa.
Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) coordinates and supports research activities that address the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases, on a global scale. The GACD is the first collaboration of major research funding agencies to specifically address chronic non-communicable diseases.
Joint Global Health Trials Initiative
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). This programme is administered by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), which reports activities under the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). NIHR disburses funds to MRC, which makes onwards disbursements to awardees. The aim of this programme is to generate new knowledge to contribute to improving health in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Priority will be given to proposals most likely to yield implementable results and designed to address the major causes of mortality or morbidity in LMICs.
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Early Career Grants Scheme
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s funding to the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) Early Career Grants Scheme supports early career researchers in low and middle income countries (LMICs) to develop their research skills and expertise. This partnership contributes to the NIHR Global Health Research priority to strengthen research capacity in LMICs.
NIHR-MRC Global Maternal and Neonatal Health Call 1 (2019)
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). This programme is administered by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), which reports activities under the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). NIHR disburses funds to MRC, which makes onwards disbursements to awardees. The purpose of the call is to address the burden of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in low and middle income countries (LMICs), by funding high-quality proposals across the spectrum of basic to applied research
Grand Challenges Canada - Being a mental health initiative
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). This initiative is administered by Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) and funded in partnership with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Fondation Botnar, the Science for Africa Foundation and United for Global Mental Health. The initiative funds research and innovation in 13 priority ODA-eligible countries to influence change in programming, research and policies relating to young people’s mental wellbeing.
NIHR Academy Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Activity Plan
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The NIHR Academy Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Activity Plan outlines activities the NIHR Academy will provide to support research capacity strengthening in the Global Health Research (GHR) Programmes (Units, Groups, Centres, Health Policy & Systems Research programmes and the Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation programme).The aim is for the NIHR Academy to add value, support and build on the NIHR Official Development Assistance (ODA) investment in global health research programmes through specific demand-led events and community development together with awards and career development activities that help strengthen research capacity.
NIHR-Wellcome Global Health Research Partnership
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
This partnership between the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and Wellcome funds global health researchers who focus on health priorities in low- and middle-income countries.
NIHR Global Advanced Fellowships: Call 1
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s first Global Advanced Fellowships call. The NIHR Global Advanced Fellowships scheme funds and supports postdoctoral researchers with the potential to become future leaders in applied global health research in low- and middle-income countries and the UK. This scheme awards funding of up to £750,000 over 2 to 5 years to support a research project, salary costs, personal training and development, and wider institutional capacity strengthening.
UK Vaccine Network (UKVN) - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) - Vaccine Technology Development
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
This is an Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded UKaid project from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)’s UK Vaccine Network (UKVN) which supports the development of vaccines and vaccine technology for infectious diseases with the potential to cause an epidemic in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on areas of market failure. UKVN has identified a range of human diseases with epidemic potential in LMICs for which the development of vaccines is a priority. UKVN funded the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to deliver a programme of seven projects that will advance vaccine development for diseases of epidemic potential for the benefit of people in LMICs. The projects cover a range of pathogens, which have been identified as being a priority area of investment due to lack of current vaccine availability and likelihood of epidemic threat. The projects are primarily focused on enabling activities, such as preclinical model or assay development, to support the development of vaccine candidates for priority pathogens, including through increasing the range of settings where vaccine development and evaluation can take place without a need for higher-containment facilities, which will support future work in LMICs. This project was not put out to an open, competitive tender process because UKHSA is an executive agency of DHSC with a mandate to deliver on pandemic preparedness and therefore exempt from the tender process as it is within DHSC’s body of expertise.
UK Vaccine Network (UKVN) - Innovate UK - Vaccine Development for Diseases with Epidemic Potential Competition
UK - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
This is an Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded UKaid project from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)’s UK Vaccine Network (UKVN) which supports the development of vaccines and vaccine technology for infectious diseases with the potential to cause an epidemic in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on areas of market failure. UKVN has identified a range of human diseases with epidemic potential in LMICs for which the development of vaccines is a priority. UKVN is funding Innovate UK to run the Vaccine Development for Diseases with Epidemic Potential competition. The competition aims to support projects seeking to develop vaccines, vaccine platform technologies and manufacturing technologies that will enable an effective, rapid response during future outbreaks of diseases of epidemic potential in LMICs. The projects include work that has progressed from earlier UKVN-Innovate UK competitions, including the Vaccines for Epidemic Diseases: Readiness for Clinical Development and Regulatory Submission Competition, Innovate Vaccine Development Competition 2017-2020, Innovate Preclinical Vaccine Development Competition 2017-2021, and Innovate Clinical Vaccine Development Competition 2018-2021. The successive funding allows for successful previous projects to receive follow on funding and progress vaccine candidates down the developmental pipeline. This project was not put out to an open, competitive tender process because, as a non-departmental public body of the UK government, Innovate UK is uniquely positioned to manage research calls.
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