Deadline: 03-Dec-2024

The UK Research and Innovation is seeking grant applications for the stage one of Global Health Research Program.

They invest in people, places, ideas, innovation and impacts, empowering researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to turn the many challenges they all face into opportunities, driving up prosperity and wellbeing across the UK and globally.

Aims

• The MRC partners with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support global health research projects. Some of the projects funded through AGHRB in specific strategic areas of mutual interest such as climate and health, women and girls’ reproductive health, early childhood development and epidemic preparedness will be funded under this partnership.
• Through the investments in global health research, they aim to:
  • support a portfolio of high quality, high priority, diverse investments to improve health, encouraging:
    • Innovation in study design
    • Multi-disciplinarily to address global challenges
    • Diverse health topics: prioritize local relevance with potential for global impact
  • Prioritize equitable partnerships
  • Invest in research capacity strengthening
  • Promote co-design and co-production with communities, policy-makers and
  • Health practitioners.

Types of Research

• They’re looking to fund research projects that will lead to tangible change in health policy and practice in the near future through practical, impact focused research.
• They aim to support a diverse portfolio and examples of the types of research they will support, include:
  • Feasibility studies which include evaluation of impact and stakeholder engagement
  • Late-stage intervention development and testing, which can include global health trials from phase 2b (efficacy) onwards
  • Implementation and scale-up research
  • Health economic research as part of a broader health intervention project
  • The impact of policy changes or other similar interventions on health, particularly with a multisectoral lens
  • Environmental (including climate change), cultural and social approaches within health focused projects
  • Applied modelling

Funding information

• They will accept applications of all sizes from £150,000 up to approximately £2 million MRC contribution.
• Duration: They will fund projects lasting up to five years, although projects typically last three to four years.

Eligible Cost

• You can request funding for costs such as:
  • a contribution to the salary of the project lead and project co-leads (UK)
  • 100% salary costs for project leads and project co-leads (international), based within an LMIC
  • support for other posts such as research and technical
  • research consumables
  • equipment
  • travel costs
  • data preservation, data sharing and dissemination costs
  • estates and indirect costs
  • research capacity strengthening activities (excluding Masters/PhD fees and stipends)
  • LMIC publication costs can be requested, where all the authors are from LMICs

Ineligible Cost

• They will not fund:
  • Master’s and PhD studentships
  • UK publication costs
  • funding to use as a ‘bridge’ between grants

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible to apply for this funding opportunity you must:
  • be eligible as an individual
  • be based at either an eligible UK research organisation, or based in a:
    • research organisation in a low or middle-income country (LMIC), with degreeawarding powers recognised by the government in which the organisation is based
    • research-focused institute based in an LMIC either funded by the government of the country in which the organisation is based, or by a not-for-profit organisation
    • research-focused not-for-profit organisation based in an LMIC with dedicated research capacity
  • Medical Research Council (MRC) particularly encourages applications from:
    • Researchers based in LMICs
    • UK-based researchers who are eligible to apply for MRC funding and work in equitable partnership with LMIC researchers
    • LMIC countries.

Ineligibility Criteria

• You are not eligible to apply if:
  • You are based in a high-income country (does not include UK project leads, who are eligible), or in India, you are not eligible to be project lead, but may be eligible to be project co-lead (international).
  • You are based in China. You are not eligible to be project lead, but may be eligible to be either a project partner or project co-lead (International) with £0 cost.

For more information, visit UK Research and Innovation.