Deadline: 21-Oct-22

The Sabin Vaccine Institute is launching its fourth funding cycle of the Social and Behavioral Research Grants program.

The Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Vaccine Acceptance & Demand (VAD) initiative partners with organizations around the world to better understand the social and behavioral drivers of vaccine acceptance and demand in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to better inform traditional health information gatekeepers about vaccines and immunization

Focus Areas

• This ye ar Sabin is inviting proposals for research projects that fall within the following tracks:
  • Recovering lost gains in routine childhood immunizations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Understanding the structural determinants of zero-dose children in urban slum communities
    • Evaluating an intervention to catch-up children who have fallen behind on local routine immunization schedules in rural healthcare settings
    • Impact of COVID-19 on routine childhood immunization uptake
  • Building effective adult immunization and life-course vaccination programs in a post-pandemic world
    • Characterizing “zero-dose adults”
    • KAP study on seasonal influenza vaccination among adults 65+ years of age
    • Impact of COVID-19 on life-course vaccination programs
  • Operation alizi ng the WHO Behavioral and Social Drivers (BeSD) framework
    • Application of BeSD framework to understand acceptance of HPV vaccine among refugee youth
    • Evaluation of the BeSD framework and/or identification of new indicators

Funding Information

• Sabin intends to make awards of up to US$70,000 per funded project.
• Successful applicants will be awarded funding for projects to conduct research and implement solutions for up to 18 months beginning in March 2023.

Eligibility Criteria

• Primary applicant organization and any proposed subaward organization(s) must:
  • Be a not-for-profit entity, as this program supports individuals and institutions with limited opportunities and resources for funding. Proposals from for-profit entities will not be considered.
  • Conduct the research project in LMIC settings; projects in high-income settings will not be considered
  • Have established partnerships with local immunization program(s), civil society organization(s), and/or other non-governmental organizations
• Proposed project Principal Investigator(s) and Co-Investigator(s) across primary applicant organizations and any sub-award organizations must:
  • Be interdisciplinary in nature and exhibit proof of skill sets from at least three disciplines (eg, medical anthropology, communications, global health)

For more information, visit https://www.vaccineacceptance.org/call-for-proposals-2023/