A curated listing of global health funding opportunities.
About
At the General Assembly, hosted by WHO in Geneva 3 to 4 December, the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) coalition of research funders launched a new funding mechanism, "Global Research Improving Pandemic Preparedness (GRIPP)". This initiative aims to improve collaboration between international research funders around the world, improving our research responses to future outbreaks, epidemics and wider health emergencies.
The first GRIPP call, focused on strengthening the clinical research ecosystem in LMICs to improve clinical trial good practices aligned with WHO guidance and GloPID-R Roadmap for Clinical Trial Coordination, will be launched in early 2025.
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Institut Pasteur, through the Calmette & Yersin program, is launching a call for applications for two postdoctoral fellowships.
The funding enables early career researchers to conduct a postdoctoral internship at an institute within the Institut Pasteur international network that is based in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC). Topics include research into infectious diseases and public health activities.
criteria
- The postdoctorate must be based at a member institutes of the Pasteur Network (except Institut Pasteur Paris), located in a LMIC, as part of a SPARK project.
- Applicants must propose an innovative research project in line with the scientific priorities of the host institute and the SPARK 2025 call
- Amount: 100,000 euros for a period of 24 months
- Deadline: 8 September 2025
Apply for Post Doctoral Grant Calmette and Yersin
The British Council Going Global Partnerships grants support capacity strengthening and collaboration activities that help develop research environment connections between the UK and Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan and Peru.
Funding can be used to establish new research environment links, or significantly develop existing links, between research groups, departments or institutions, with the potential for longer-term sustainability.
Each collaboration should support capacity strengthening in the partner institution, while stimulating longer-term interactions between the UK and the partner country.
Criteria
- The call accepts joint proposals from one lead UK institution and one lead partner country institution. The application must be submitted by the lead UK institution.
- Maximum award: £40,000
- Deadline: 9 September 2025, 23:59 BST
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The British Academy is inviting proposals for the next round of its International Interdisciplinary Research programme. Projects will be led by UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences working with international partners and wishing to develop interdisciplinary projects that range across all SHAPE and STEM disciplines on the theme of Transnational and Planetary Challenges.
The Academy will only accept applications that focus on one or more of transnational and planetary challenge domains - including on Global health, particularly the rising threat posed by pandemic disease and the linkages among human, animal, and environmental health (“One Health”). Other areas include earth system governance, digital and other transformative technologies, and outer space governance.
ELIGIBILITY
Early-career, Established researcher, Mid-career, Postdoctoral or equivalent research, Senior researcher
Amount
The total funding per award is up to £300,000 over 2 years.
Deadline
17 September 2025; 17:00 British Summer Time (BST)
The Writing Workshops seek to cultivate professional networks and mentorship and provide access for early-career researchers in developing countries to the academic requirements of journals, and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to publish in these journals. The British Academy is inviting proposals for Writing Workshops in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries.
- Maximum award: £30,000.
- Criteria: Funding must be used in the direct delivery of the workshops, and can cover travel and related expenses.
- Award length: 2 years
- Deadline: 17 September 2025, 17:00 UK time
The Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health program at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) provides innovative training, networking, and support to emerging leaders focused on improving brain health and reducing the impact of dementia in their local communities and on a global scale.
The program is for professionals working in the area of brain health and dementia from a wide range of disciplines, including the arts, sciences, economics, policy, medicine, journalism, community-based practice and more.
Criteria
- 12-month, full-time, paid fellowship based at GBHI at Trinity College Dublin or University of California, San Francisco
- Regional support and mentorship in the communities where the applicants hope to make an impact
- Closing date: 19 September 2025
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The British Council invite applications from the UK and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) institutions to submit joint research funding proposals up to £80,000 over 2 years. UK-KSA Research Collaboration grants will provide seed funding for collaborations about ‘resilient planet’ and ‘healthy people’.
Deadline: 24 September 2025
Criteria
Both UK and KSA applicants must be leading or established researchers. The application form should be submitted by the UK lead applicant.
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The International Exchanges Scheme is for scientists based in the UK who want to stimulate collaborations with leading scientists overseas through either a one-off visit or bilateral travel.
Closing date: 25 September 2025
AMOUNT
Maximum award: £12,000
ELIGIBILITY
Research must be within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.
The Polio Research Committee is calling for research proposals supporting the Polio Endgame Strategy 2022-2026. Research proposals supporting the strategic plan may be submitted to the Committee for review and funding. Preference will be given to proposals developed by GPEI partner agencies and their research collaborators. However, other institutions may also submit proposals if they address the research priorities.
The current priority of the Polio Research Committee is to generate new data or information in the following areas: vaccine schedule immunogenicity; surveillance; product development; epidemiology/virology; monitoring and evaluation; basic immunology and containment.
Submission of proposals
The deadline for submission of proposals for the next round of review is 10 October 2025 .
Submissions should be sent to polioresearch@who.int and include the completed application form,
Please read the detailed guidelines on how to prepare a proposal for submission to the Polio Research Committee.
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Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness award scheme is intended to support postgraduate students and early-career researchers to present or co-present a paper in the field of the sociology of health and illness at an appropriate international conference outside the United Kingdom, by providing funding for registration, standard accommodation and travel costs.
Closing date: 31 October 2025
AMOUNT
Maximum award: £1,000
ELIGIBILITY
Applications will be considered from postgraduate students registered for a Masters degree or MPhil/PhD in a UK University, including students who are full-time or part-time and students who are not UK or EU citizens, and early-career researchers at a UK University within three years of the award of their PhD (regardless of where their PhD was awarded).
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Funding for projects that robustly test the real-world effectiveness and assess implementation strategies of scalable transformative early interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people.
The team must include expertise in mental health, lived experience, clinical trials, statistics, health economics and implementation science and must include implementation partners.
At least one implementation partner must be included as a co-applicant. Implementation partners can include individuals from national or local government agencies, healthcare providers, education providers, non-government organisations, community groups or international organisations.
The team must also include either a lead applicant or co-applicant based in each country where the research will take place.
Deadline: 11 November 2025
AMOUNT
This award is structured in two phases:
- This first phase will provide teams with £200,000 to build their teams and develop their detailed proposal for their research study over 12 months. The research must take place in the UK or a low- and middle-income country. The proposal must capture multiple outcomes that are relevant to people with lived experience and implementing partners, including mental health outcomes, functional outcomes and full economic evaluation.
- All funded teams from the Foundation Phase will be invited to apply for the Impact Phase. Wellcome expect the award amount for the Impact Phase to be between £5 million and £8 million and the duration to be up to 5 years.
ELIGIBILITY
Applications are welcome from anywhere in the world (except mainland China) and from any relevant discipline.
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Apply for funding to generate critical data that builds confidence in developing a new or repurposed medicine, medical device, diagnostic test, or other medical intervention.
The concept for the product should be backed by prior funding. Projects should focus on one high-risk step, not multiple, to ensure efficient management. This step must address the crucial missing evidence needed to rapidly de-risk onward development or determine failure.
criteria
- Award range: £50,000 - £300,000
- Deadline: 12 November 2025, 4pm UK time
- Eligibility: you must be based at a research organisation eligible for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding
Apply for the MRC Gap fund for early-stage development of new healthcare interventions
About
Funding to develop and test novel therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics.You can apply for academically-led translational projects that aim to either:
- improve prevention, diagnosis, prognosis or treatment of significant health needs;
- develop research tools that increase the efficiency of developing interventions.
Criteria
- Total fund: £11,000,000
- Deadline: 19 November 2025, 4:00pm UK time
- Criteria: employment at a research organisation eligible for MRC funding.
Apply to the MRC: Developmental Pathway Funding scheme
This is a new ODA-funded opportunity to contract a high-quality research partnership to collaborate with the UK Health Security Agency to deliver the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST).
The UK-PHRST works to address the threat posed by infectious disease outbreaks in LMICs through an integrated triple remit incorporating outbreak response, research, and capacity-building. The primary aim of the Research Partnership is to deliver an interdisciplinary programme of planned and responsive research that aims to support and improve public health responses to infectious disease outbreaks in the world’s poorest countries while generating evidence for best practice in outbreak response, facilitating its uptake into public health policy, and supporting continuous learning to improve future UK-PHRST deployments.
Criteria
The application must make a clear case for how the research will be of primary benefit to the development challenges of LMICs and how outcomes will promote health and welfare. The lead applicant must be employed by a research active higher education institution (HEI) based in the UK and there must be at least one co-applicant employed by a research active HEI or research institute based in an ODA-eligible country.
Amount
Funding is a single award of up to £18 million (£3.6 million per year) for five years.
Deadline
13:00 GMT, 27 November 2025
About
This year’s programme will reflect the field’s growing complexity and dynamic response to the global health challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It will highlight surveillance innovations, novel therapeutics, pioneering anti-AMR strategies, advances in point-of-care technologies and diagnostics, the variety of non-susceptibility phenotypes, and lessons learned from non-bacterial microorganisms. The role of big data and emerging technologies in driving insights and accelerating progress across these areas will also be a key theme.
This conference will be a hybrid meeting – with onsite or virtual attendance. In addition to invited talks from global leaders, the programme will include short oral presentations selected from abstracts, posters, poster pitch talks and networking opportunities.
criteria
- Priority will be given to PhD students/trainees from LMICs, or those from underrepresented/minority groups. Other early career researchers will be considered if funds allow.
- Deadline for bursary application: 1 December 2025.