A curated listing of global health funding opportunities.
The NIHR Global Research Professorships scheme is open to researchers and methodologists from all professional backgrounds within health, public health and social care. Candidates must be able to demonstrate an outstanding research record of clinical and applied health, public health or care research. Their research must effectively translate to improving the health and welfare of people in low and middle income countries. Candidates must be nominated by their host institution - an internal coordinated bid is now open on IRAMS. Please complete the form on the IRAMS coordinated bids form if you are interested in attending the internal webinar (on 4 Sept) on this call or contact research@msd.ox.ac.uk for further information.
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The TORCH Global South Visiting Professorship Programme is a flagship scheme that supports Visiting Professors from the Global South for one academic term in Oxford. All Souls College will generously host the visiting academic, and TORCH will provide additional logistical support.
ELIGIBILITY
Proposed TORCH Global Visiting Professors should be holders of university or related posts in their country, and active in Humanities research areas. Visiting Professorships should ideally hold Assistant Professor or full Professor position, and are not normally offered to candidates with doctorates awarded in the last seven years. This opportunity is not available to individuals holding posts in Oxford or who are already resident in or near Oxford.
Apply for the TORCH Global South Visiting Professorship Programme
Innovators are invited to submit novel precision neuroscience and digital health approaches that both aim to advance health equity and transform mental healthcare in the United States and beyond (with particular interest in Brazil, India, and Kenya). Specific disease areas of interest include: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.
Full title: NIH Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Career Development Opportunities for Research on Cancer in Global Settings at the Center for Global Health at the National Cancer Institute
The purpose of this Notice is to inform potential applicants of NCI’s interest in receiving Career Development Award applications from early career scientists conducting global cancer research.
Background
In the United States, incidence rates for all cancer sites have decreased on average by 1.1% each year over the last 10 years, but significant disparities persist in cancer incidence and mortality among certain racial and ethnic minorities and immigrant communities. The primary drivers for some of these disparities – exposure to risk factors, gaps in early detection, presence of co-morbidities, poor access to treatment services, and social determinants of health – also underlie the high cancer-related morbidity and mortality seen in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), as defined by the World Bank. By 2030, 75% of the projected 21 million new cancer cases and 13 million annual cancer deaths worldwide will disproportionately occur in LMICs, where, in addition to the drivers noted above, genetic susceptibilities and cultural practices may also play a significant role in cancer risk. Cancer death rates are higher in these countries than for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. These statistics reflect key trends in LMICs, including aging populations, the epidemiologic transition to more non-communicable diseases than infectious diseases, and environmental and lifestyle changes. To address this growing burden, there is an urgent need to recruit a diverse workforce that is highly skilled and committed to generating context-specific evidence in LMICs that informs cancer prevention and control efforts. It is, therefore, important to support early career investigators committed to careers in global cancer research as they develop skills and competencies, work with mentors, and transition into independent research careers. These deliberate attempts are needed to strengthen research capacity, including the development of relevant skills to tackle the multifaceted nature of cancers and foster equity in global research collaborations.
Research Objectives
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Global Health (CGH) is interested in applications from individuals committed to an independent career in global cancer research who propose mentored research projects in topics relevant to the LMIC where the research will be conducted. NCI is also interested in applications from established investigators committed to global cancer research education in LMICs. Topics of interest include but are not limited to, studies in cancer biology and genetics, cancer epidemiology, research in cancer primary and secondary prevention, clinical and translational research, implementation science and health systems research, health disparities, health surveillance, and cancer informatics research, studies in integrative oncology and cancer survivorship as well as investigations that employ technology (including mHealth and eHealth) to address cancer control. As relevant, the proposed career development, research education, and/or mentoring project must be aligned with cancer control priorities in the LMIC.
Application and Submission Information
This notice applies to Application Due Dates on or after October 12, 2024, and subsequent Application Due Dates through the expiration date of this NOSI (January 8, 2027).
Applicants are strongly advised to check/verify the Application Due Date matrix listed in each of the notices of funding opportunity (NOFOs) listed below before applying.
Submit applications for this initiative using one of the following notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) or any reissues of these announcements through the expiration date of this notice.
NIHR's Research on Interventions for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programme is launching its 8th call that will support targeted research to develop and evaluate interventions to strengthen and improve prevention, management, and response to unintentional injuries and accidents arising from any cause in ODA-eligible countries. In this call, they are especially interested in interventions relevant to unintentional injuries and accidents occurring in relation to climate change and natural hazards.
The objective of the ODA (Official Development Assistance) Global Innovation Fellowships is to provide opportunities to UK-based early- and mid-career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to develop their skills, networks and careers in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions. Through the ODA Global Innovation Fellowships, researchers in the SHAPE community will be supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, so enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skills development. Career stage: Early-career, Mid-career
In order to participate and for the webinar to be structured as effectively as possible for you, we ask that you submit a short paragraph outlining your proposal and any questions that you may have, as well as indicate that the applicant and their partner organisation can attend the week before the webinar. To submit that information and register to attend the webinar please contact: international@thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Scheme overview
The objective of the ODA (Official Development Assistance) Global Innovation Fellowships is to provide opportunities to UK-based early- and mid-career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to develop their skills, networks and careers in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions. Through the ODA Global Innovation Fellowships, researchers in the SHAPE community will be supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, so enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skills development.
This is the first call for this ODA strand of the programme, offering opportunities for ODA Global Innovation Fellowship award-holders to embed themselves with a partner organisation. The partner organisation must be based in any of the following countries: Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and any country from this list of Least Developed Countries. Applications that are not considered ODA-eligible will not be taken forward through the assessment process.
This programme is part of the £337m International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), which is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity. It puts research and innovation at the heart of the UK’s international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with peers around the world on the major themes of our time. It is managed by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) and delivered by a consortium of the UK’s leading research and innovation bodies. In the context of this call, funding from the International Science Partnerships Fund is funded by ODA therefore applications for this funding must be ODA-eligible.
Applications are invited in any of the following areas:
- Environment, sustainability and nature
- Transformative technologies
- Health and wellbeing
- Cities and urbanisation
- Global order, geopolitics and international affairs
Successful candidates will be selected on the basis of the quality and interest of the activity or range of activities and outputs proposed in the application. Award-holders will be expected to play a role in promoting the approaches and methods that are the focus of their award, and consider the potential for engagement between academic and non-academic environments. Eligible activities and outputs can involve, but are not limited to:
- Evidence notes – reports, notes and responses to key challenges/approaches for developing connections with policy leaders or innovators
- Data analysis – identifying and analysing datasets that may be relevant to enhancing understanding and framing new solutions
- Case studies – exploring practical or policy-orientated solutions, engagement between academic and non-academic environments and the wider benefits to individuals/communities/regions
- Briefings/blogs/podcasts/videos and other outputs to reach a variety of audiences and environments, including policymakers (where relevant)
- Conferences/workshops/webinars/toolkits and other training opportunities which enable knowledge exchange
Scheme opens date: 13 June 2024
Application deadline: 6 November 2024
Starting period of award: ODA Global Innovation Fellowships are expected to commence by September 2025. An earlier start date of March or April 2025 may be possible, in this case the applicant will need to explain how they will plan and manage their relocation on this faster timeline.
Level of award: These Fellowships are offered as awards for up to £150,000 for 12 months in duration (with Full Economic Costing at 80%).
For full information on the ODA Global Innovation Fellowships Scheme, please view our scheme notes.
NIHR are looking for applications to the annual Global Health Research (GHR) – Researcher-led programmes funding opportunity, launched in July 2024. GHR – Researcher-led funds research that aims to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable people in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Research must address evidence needs that are locally identified and prioritised, and must promote health equity, aligning with the aims of Sustainable Development Goal 3. Applications can span from broad, ambitious programmes of research to projects with a narrower scope.
GHR – Researcher-led replaces the previously run GHR Units and Groups Programmes and commissions research through 3 programme bands.
This is a two-stage funding opportunity.
Researcher-led bands 1 to 3: 29 August NIHR webinar about the scheme available to view here
The Networking Grants scheme allows researchers from across disciplines and countries, working with researchers based in the UK, to hold networking events, forge new links and generate innovative transdisciplinary research ideas.
Apply for funding for internationally collaborative projects to understand the ecological, evolutionary and social drivers of infectious disease transmission in animals, humans and plants, using a quantitative or mathematical approach combined with qualitative principles.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for funding from UKRI or Defra and collaborate with a partner from the US. You can also have partners from China and Israel to form tri or quadrilateral collaborations.
The full economic cost of your project can be up to £1 million, funding available for up to four years.
The Medical Research Council invites outline applications for its research grants under the applied global health research programme. They are looking to develop a portfolio of high-quality global research which will be diverse, promote multidisciplinarity and strengthen global health research capacity. They encourage applications from project leads based in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and UK, working in equitable partnership with LMIC researchers. This call is repeated once a year. Stage one application opening date: 20 August 2024 9:00am.
This call will fund research to evaluate and further develop scalable digital interventions to advance early intervention in depression, anxiety and psychosis. Teams must have the research expertise required to drive the proposed research, an organisation which can take the intervention to scale (whether a company or not-for-profit) and lived experience experts. This call is open to interventions designed to lead to reductions in symptom(s) and/or functional impairments related to anxiety, depression or psychosis. We expect teams to already have a minimum viable product and feasibility data for their intervention.
The Global Health Research Professorship award is NIHR’s flagship career development award. It aims to fund research leaders to promote effective translation of research and to strengthen research leadership at the highest academic levels.
The Global Health Research Professorship programme supports outstanding academics to work at professorial level. The programme funds researchers undertaking research that aims to specifically and primarily benefit people in LMICs eligible for Official Development Assistance (ODA).
The award provides an extensive support package alongside the professorship, to include support posts, research costs and a leadership and development programme.
The scheme is open to all health, public health and social care research and methodology professions. Applicants must be nominated by their host institution, so see details of obligatory internal coordinated bid.
This award will fund projects to advance understanding of how heat impacts anxiety, depression, and psychosis in the most impacted groups globally through biological, psychological, and/or social mechanisms. Teams must bring together mental health and climate expertise as well as additional expertise as relevant. Consistent with the Wellcome approach to mental health research, it is expected that research teams to include relevant lived experience of mental health problems, unless there is a strong justification for not doing so. Researchers can be based in institutions anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China and countries that are the target of international sanctions).