A curated listing of global health funding opportunities.
About
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
The Foundation supports projects and applied research that:
- Generate local or regional solutions to problems affecting the quality of the environment and human life;
- Advance local leadership and promote professional development in the conservation, agricultural, and health sciences;
- Develop the capacity of local organizations and coalitions; and
- Address challenges in the field.
The Foundation prefers to support projects that address under-funded issues and geographic areas.
The following are examples of the Foundation’s areas of interest within the fields of conservation, food, and health, and are not meant to be exclusive.
Conservation
Conservation grants promote environmental conservation through field research, projects, and advocacy that:
- Protect biodiversity and preserve natural resources.
- Help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.
- Build the scientific and technical capacity of local conservation organizations and promote local, regional, and international partnerships.
- Increase engagement between scientists, local communities and organizations, and decision-makers.
- Partner with indigenous communities and local people.
Food
Grants in the food and agriculture program area focus on research-based projects that build capacity for self-sufficiency and resilience to climate change, strengthen local food systems, and support healthy nutrition through projects that:
- Enhance food security.
- Develop and promote sustainable agricultural practices
- Build the capacity of small-scale farmers.
- Advance farmer research and research partnerships.
- Develop environmentally sound and affordable approaches to control pests and diseases affecting important local food crops.
- Promote indigenous food sovereignty and knowledge systems.
- Address challenges of uptake and scalability through new methods of extension, education, and technology transfer.
Health
The Foundation supports efforts that test new ideas and approaches that promote public health, with a special emphasis on reproductive health and family planning and their integration with other health promotion activities. It favors community-level disease prevention and health promotion projects and efforts that help strengthen regional and country public health systems over disease diagnosis, treatment, and care provided by clinics, hospitals, and humanitarian aid programs.
Activities that help increase capacity include applied research, program development, technical assistance, and training projects that:
- Promote reproductive health and family planning.
- Address issues related to mental and behavioral health.
- Address issues relating to pollution and environmental health.
- Increase the understanding of zoonotic and neglected tropical diseases.
- Address issues relating to nutrition and health.
Amount
There is no minimum or maximum grant size. It is anticipated that most grants will fall in the $25,000-$50,000 per year range.
Eligibility
The Foundation supports local, state, and regional organizations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East in the countries where the projects are based. It also supports organizations located in upper-income countries working with local partners in these areas. It does not support projects in post-Soviet states or Balkan states.
The Foundation will consider only one proposal from an organization in any calendar year.
About
The Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) at the University of Oxford, the Science for Africa Foundation, and the Mastercard Foundation have released a call for applications to establish networks of epidemic and pandemic sciences research excellence across Africa.
The Epidemic Science Leadership and Innovation Networks (EPSILONs) aim to nurture and promote world-class epidemic and pandemic sciences research and innovation in Africa.
The networks will be led by an outstanding African investigator based at an African research institution and will bring together multiple organisations in a consortium for up to six years.
While interdisciplinary applications are strongly encouraged, EPSILONs will focus on one or more of the following thematic research areas:
- Vaccinology / early-stage vaccine R&D
- Virology, with a focus on how genetic changes affect key viral behaviours
- Clinical research and clinical trials on epidemic- and pandemic-prone infections
- Epidemic and pandemic public health policy research
- Climate change, biodiversity, and pandemic prevention
- Advanced data assembly and analytics for threat assessment and mitigation
- Social and behavioural sciences.
Amount
Each consortium will be awarded core funding of up to USD $4 million.
About
The Trustees aim to award a number of Soulsby Fellowships annually through a competitive application process. Each Fellowship will be granted to an individual who has proposed an impactful project within the international field of “One Health”.
Applicants will understand the interplay between animal, human and environmental health in line with the OHHLEP definition of One Health. They may be medical or veterinary professionals. But they may equally be professionals in other relevant fields including ecology, social sciences, economics, etc.
Amount
Up to £12,000 in value to cover travel and subsistence expenses in carrying out the project.
Eligibility
- An early career researcher (late PhD or early post-doc)
- Have a project which will help to launch their career in One Health
- Be a potential future leader in One Health
About
Wellcome plans two bioimaging funding activities:
- Addressing the lack of opportunities to access imaging facilities and training for researchers based in low-resource settings.
They aim to increase access to bioimaging facilities and training in bioimaging methodologies for researchers in low- and middle-income countries.
This activity, launching in January 2024, will see a series of funding calls delivered via a partnership with Global Bioimaging (GBI), a global consortium of imaging infrastructures. Their established network and understanding of the global bioimaging landscape will maximise reach and impact. - Developing novel technologies and methodologies to unlock discovery research in particular areas of interest.
Wellcome will also focus on enabling the development of novel tools and technology for bioimaging. We will deliver a two-phase directed funding call, launching in January 2024, with the aim of bringing together technology developers and users in collaborative frameworks to tackle some of the biggest methodological barriers currently holding up discovery research.
The initial phase will identify novel teams with bold and ambitious technology development programmes. We will fund these for a short period (12-18 months) to allow them to collect proof-of-principle data and/or expand their collaborative team. Some of the most promising teams will then be scaled up to fully funded programmes.
Having already invested in technologies imaging at the scale of atoms-cells, we will now focus on cells-tissues. This is where some of the most ambitious biological questions remain unanswered – in the fields of connectomics, cell atlasing and more broadly in the visualisation of dynamic and systems biology, for example.
They will also be interested in novel methodologies aimed at analysing complex imaging datasets.
About
This one-off funding call will support research teams to establish or validate correlates of protection across 11 diseases with the potential to cause substantial outbreaks or which have significant burden, and have no licenced vaccines. Having a range of reliable metrics to predict vaccine efficacy will support effective vaccine development, especially in low resource settings.
This call is divided into two strands, depending on the disease pathogens studied: Part A for bacterial/parasitic diseases or Part B for viral-related diseases.
Through Part A, Wellcome will fund research on correlates of protection to support the clinical development or licensure pathway of vaccines against the following diseases:
- Invasive non-typhoidal salmonella, (iNTS),
- Shigella,
- Paratyphi A,
- Extraintestinal pathogenic E coli (ExPec),
- Group A strep, or
- Schistosomiasis.
In addition to the above-mentioned diseases, Wellcome and CEPI will fund research through Part B to discover correlates of protection for diseases caused by the following viruses:
- Ebola virus (non-Zaire forms),
- Lassa virus,
- Marburg virus,
- Nipah virus
- Rift Valley Fever virus.
Amount
Up to £5 million.
Eligibility
Where your administering organisation is based: Anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).
ABOUT
This board funds applied health research that will address global health challenges and inequities. They do this via two funding pathways, for research and strategically important, original partnerships. They are looking to develop a portfolio of high-quality global research, which will be diverse, promote multidisciplinarity and strengthen global health research capacity. Stage one application opening date: 2 November 2023. Information webinar: 7 December 2023. Note that Partnership applications require a pre-application stage 6 weeks before the deadline.
Future funding round (for Research and for Partnerships applications) opens March 2024 with the stage 1 application deadline in June 2024.
AMOUNT
Proposals of all sizes, including large research projects up to approximately £2 million (research) and £1 million (partnerships) and small to medium-scale applications. They will fund projects lasting up to five years, although projects typically last three to four years.
ELIGIBILITY
Project leads based in LMIC or in the UK, working in partnership with LMIC investigators.
UKRI: Develop interdisciplinary research proposals to tackle epidemic threats. Deadline: 27 Feb 2024
ABOUT
Apply for seed funding to build interdisciplinary teams and develop research ideas to tackle epidemic diseases of humans, animals and plants. Your team will bring new perspectives crossing Councils’ remits to understand infectious disease threats.
Webinar on 15 November and two virtual networking events on 21 and 27 November.
AMOUNT
Up to £125k, for up to 9 months.
ELIGIBILITY
You must be a researcher employed by a research organisation eligible to apply for UKRI funding.
ABOUT
Apply for funding for the early-stage development of an intervention that seeks to address a UK or global public health challenge.
AMOUNT
MRC will fund up to £150,000, for a maximum of 18 months.
Funds requested by UK research organisations will be funded at 80% of the full economic cost, in which case the full economic cost of your project can be up to £187,500. Overseas costs will be funded at 100% of the full economic cost.
ELIGIBILITY
Any researcher, including MRC institutes and units (including those in The Gambia and Uganda).
About
The purpose of this call is to promote multi-perspective research on how mobility and health are interlinked, influencing the general health, various health determinants and the well-being of local and mobile populations, and how the effects of mobility could be addressed in a sustainable way. Furthermore, projects on how ideas/concepts that influence Global Health move beyond borders and how they affect societies are welcome. The mobility of animals and goods, and what this means for the spread of animal and vector-borne diseases and their effects on human populations may also be investigated.
The applicants are not limited to, but could use the following sub-themes as inspiration to develop high-impact research projects:
- Projects to inform research priorities, policies and interventions aimed at addressing access to prevention, diagnostics, and challenges of continued care for non-communicable diseases, including mental health and infectious disease co-morbidities, among migrants for work, persons displaced due to conflict, disasters or climate change.
- Understand, in a One Health perspective, the role of mobility and international trade of goods, live animals and agricultural products for public health recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment as well as the ethical and systemic components and adaptation strategies.
Projects are encouraged to understand, develop and assess novel methods and approaches across different disciplines to benefit research into mobility including, for example, ethical aspects, data quality, cost, feasibility and participatory opportunities.
Amount
€50,000-€1,550,000
Eligibility
- The scientific background of the participating project team members is not restricted and should be based on the needs of the projects. The transdisciplinary nature of the project, e.g., between life sciences and social sciences, must be demonstrated in the application.
- The consortium must consist of one main applicant and 2 to 4 co-applicants.
- The number of co-applicants in LMICs must match (or exceed) those in HICs, meaning that minimum two co-applicants must be from research institutions located in LMICs.
- Due to statutory limitations, the foundations are restricted to the following:
- Volkswagen Foundation will only be able to award grants with the main applicant from a research institution in Germany.
- For Novo Nordisk Foundation, the geographical location of the main applicant is not restricted. However, at least one of the applicants should be from Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden).
- For Wellcome, the geographical location of the main applicant and co-applicants is restricted to the UK and Low-or-Middle Income countries.
- A significant part of the research must be performed locally in LMICs and include close collaboration with local communities, stakeholders, and other relevant actors.
Apply for Transdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility and Global Health
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Apply for funding to work with researchers in Japan in the field of engineering biology for novel therapies and diagnostics research. They are looking for internationally competitive, full-scale collaborative and innovative partnerships. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for MRC funding. You must submit a parallel joint application.
Amount
This initiative will provide funding for up to three collaborative research projects. In total, MRC will make up to £3 million available in support of the UK components. Approximately 158 million JPY, in total for the three year period per research project, will be provided by the AMED in support of the planned Japanese research.
MRC will fund eligible costs applicable to the UK research requested by the UK project lead.
MRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost and 100% of permitted exceptions, related to the UK research costs.
The Japan-based project lead and associated costs for Japan-based research will be funded by AMED.
Eligibility
For support under this funding opportunity, applicants and organisations must be eligible to apply for funding from their respective country’s funding agency.
The NIHR Global Advanced Fellowships are postdoctoral awards that provide funding and support to individuals with the potential, and on an upwards career path, to become future leaders in research within the NIHR’s remit in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and the UK. The Global Advanced Fellowship scheme will support any field of applied global health and care research for the direct and primary benefit of people living in one or more ODA-eligible country/ies.
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This supports global health research and the strengthening of research leadership across sub-Saharan Africa. Apply for funding to support exceptional early to mid-career African researchers to conduct excellent global health research across sub-Saharan Africa.
Researchers should be supported by an enthusiastic local research environment and by a UK-based partner as part of a partnership between the African and UK institutions. The MRC aims to attract and retain exceptionally talented ‘rising star’ individuals who will lead high quality research on key global health issues pertinent to sub-Saharan Africa.
AMOUNT
Awards will provide support for up to five years and the requested amount should not exceed £750,000 in total.
ELIGIBILITY
You can apply for this funding opportunity if you are a researcher based at an eligible African research organisation with sufficient research capacity to manage and deliver research. For full eligibility details see the funders website.
Applications from women are encouraged. Candidates wishing to combine their research with domestic responsibilities may seek the award on a part-time basis. The terms and conditions of the award make allowances for maternity or paternity leave. Allowance will also be made to those researchers whose career has been affected, either by a late start or by interruption, for personal or family reasons.
ABOUT
BA Global Professorships provide mid-career to senior scholars – active in any discipline within the social sciences and the humanities and based in any country overseas – with the opportunity to work in the UK for four years.
Eligibility
Mid-career to senior scholars. Any discipline within Social Sciences and Humanities.
ABOUT
This annual grant offers early career researchers and global health professionals based anywhere in the world the opportunity to apply for funding in a topic related to tropical medicine and global health. In 2024 the RSTMH propose to fund 225 Early Career Grants, their highest number yet.*** This opportunity will be available soon. The next call is expected to open in January 2024. This information is subject to change. ***
AMOUNT
Up to £5,000 over 1 year (including VAT).
ELIGIBILITY
Early career researchers and global health professionals based anywhere in the world, who have not had research funding in their own name before.
Apply to the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: Early Career Grants Programme
About
The University of Oxford, as part of its VALIDATE Network, invites applications for its fellowships. These aim to accelerate vaccine research and development for three groups of complex neglected intracellular pathogens that cause significant mortality and morbidity throughout the world, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs): Mycobacteria (causing tuberculosis, leprosy and other diseases), Leishmania (causing leishmaniasis) and Burkholderia pseudomallei (causing melioidosis). A second, important aim of the VALIDATE Network is to facilitate career progression for its members, particularly Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and (recognising career progression inequity) researchers from LMICs and researchers identifying as female and/or non-binary.
The VALIDATE Fellowships will fund two years’ independent scientific research, with the aim of producing initial/pilot data and a funding and experience track record that can be used by the Fellow to go on to obtain independent external funding and launch their career as a Principal Investigator and/or Group Leader.
This call is repeated every 3 years.
AMOUNT
Maximum total budget is:
- For LMIC-based members: £100,000
- For HIC-based members: £150,000 (acknowledging higher salary costs)
Fellowships should run for 24 months.
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must:
- Be an Associate member of VALIDATE
- Not have received a prior VALIDATE Fellowship
Any aspect of research that will accelerate development of an efficacious vaccine for our focus pathogens is eligible, including biological, physical and social sciences, and humanities. VALIDATE offer additional support to LMIC applications – see the VALIDATE website for details.
ABOUT
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.
AMOUNT
Accommodation and Senior Common Room membership through the support provided by All Souls College, and a generous allowance to cover travel, maintenance and research expenses.
ELIGIBILITY
Holders of university or related posts in their country, and active in Humanities research areas. Not normally offered to candidates with doctorates awarded in the last seven years. 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
ABOUT
The awards provide up to £25,000 over one year to support collaborations between researchers in other countries and the UK, and to hold networking events aimed at strengthening global research capacity. See Stream 2 details for partnerships with DAC-listed countries.
Stream 1: UK/Developed country networks
This funding stream is for researchers looking to build a network with the UK from a selection of developed countries that have been identified for support by the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF).
Applicants from the US, Canada, South Korea, India, Japan, Israel and Switzerland have been identified as a priority for the scheme. However, applications are also welcomed from Singapore, China, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, France and Netherlands.
Stream 2: UK/DAC-listed country networks
This funding stream is for researchers looking to build a network with the UK from a selection of developing countries that have been identified for support by the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF): Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, South Africa and Vietnam.
In addition, researchers based in all countries on the Least Developed Countries list are eligible to apply for a Networking Grant.
AMOUNT
Maximum award: £25,000
ELIGIBILITY
The Networking Grants will be available to all researchers operating within the remit of one, or more, of the four UK National Academies (the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society). This can broadly be described as research within natural sciences, including physics and chemistry, mathematics, computer science, engineering, agricultural, biological and medical research, social science, humanities, the scientific aspects of archaeology, geography and experimental psychology and clinical or patient-oriented research.
Submissions must be made jointly by a lead applicant based in an eligible country outside the UK and a co-applicant based in the UK.
Information on the Academy of Medical Sciences: Networking Grants
ABOUT
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.
Internal Application
If you wish to be considered as a nominee for these rounds, you must submit an internal application to IRAMS by the deadline, likely to be Sept/Oct 2024. Internal applications details and forms via the University of Oxford co-ordinated bids webpage.
AMOUNT
A generous support package, including 3 support posts, for 5 years.
ELIGIBILITY
Candidates will have spent no more than five years at their current level of seniority at the time of application (whether as a Professor, Reader, Senior Lecturer/Fellow, Clinician Scientist, Group Leader or similar). The University runs an internal selection process to identify Oxford’s candidates.
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.
All diseases and interventions are eligible for support. You can also address global health issues and other interventions. Applications open in February, June & October.
Amount
No limits
ABOUT
Applications in any field of applied global health research for the direct and primary benefit of people living in one or more ODA-eligible country/ies will be considered.
AMOUNT
Up to £3 million over 4 years.
ELIGIBILITY
Application must have two joint lead applicants, one at an eligible LMIC institution and one at an eligible UK institution.
ABOUT
The programme promotes interdisciplinary approaches to research, including, but not limited to, collaborations between clinical, health economics, statistics, qualitative and social sciences disciplines. RIGHT runs one or two funding calls a year on commissioned topics in applied health research. Previous NIHR RIGHT calls have been focussed on multimorbidity, mental health, epilepsy, infection-related cancers, severe stigmatising skin diseases and cardiovascular disease.
AMOUNT
Typically awards funding of £1-5 million (maximum of £5 million) for research with a duration of 3-5 years.
ELIGIBILITY
Principal Investigator (Lead Applicant) employed by an LMIC HEI or Research Institute; or by a Principal Investigator employed by a UK HEI or Research Institute (UK Joint Lead Applicant) to jointly lead with a Principal Investigator employed by an LMIC HEI or Research Institute (LMIC Joint Lead Applicant).
ABOUT
This 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.
AMOUNT
£3,000-£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.