Funding Opportunity: Applied Global Health Research
Deadline: 16-Feb-23
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is inviting applications for its Applied Global Health Research to support research that will address global health challenges and inequities.
MRC are looking to develop a portfolio of high quality global research, which will be diverse, promote multidisciplinarity and strengthen global health research capacity.
They also welcome cross-sector research combining expertise to meet a global health challenge. For example, a single proposal may include aspects of urban planning, health policy and non-communicable disease research. The research question might involve different disciplines and approaches from outside the health sector, but the primary objective must be health focused.
Examples of areas in which applied research may be conducted include, but are not limited to, the following:
Maternal and neonatal health
Early childhood development
Adolescent health
Healthy ageing
Sexual and reproductive health
Infectious diseases, including neglected tropical diseases and COVID-19
Non-communicable diseases, including mental health disorders
multimorbidity
Nutrition and food security
Snakebite
Intentional and unintentional injury
Urban health, including indoor and outdoor air pollution, road traffic accidents and healthy housing
Planetary health
Informal settlements, conflict zones and displaced populations
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
Detection and diagnostics
Mobile health (mHealth)
Treatment, including surgery
Pain management and palliative care.
The MRC FCDO concordat supports global health research projects funded through the Applied Global Health Research Board in specific strategic areas of mutual interest, for example:
Infections
Maternal and newborn health
Implementation science
Adolescent health
Early child development.
Areas they will not fund
Maternal and neonatal health
Early childhood development
Adolescent health
Implementation science
What they are looking for?
They are looking for research projects that will develop practical solutions to global health challenges and inequities. The aim is to fund a portfolio of high-quality global research,which will be diverse, promote multidisciplinarity and strengthen global health research capacity.
This includes:
Late-stage intervention development and testing, which can include global health trials
Implementation and scale-up research
Health systems, health policy and health economics research.
Eligibility Criteria
They encourage applications from principal investigators based in:
low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
UK, working in partnership with LMIC investigators.
You can apply for this opportunity if you are a researcher based at an eligible research organisation. These include:
Universities or higher education institutions based in the UK or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with degree-awarding powers recognised by the government in which the organisation is based
Research focused institutes based in LMICs either funded by the government of the country in which the organisation is based or by a not-for-profit organization research focused not-for-profit organisations based in LMICs with dedicated research capacity
UKRI-approved independent research organisations or NHS bodies
Public sector research establishments
MRC institutes
MRC units and partnership institutes (including those in Gambia and Uganda)
Institutes and units funded by other research councils.
You must have a graduate degree, although they expect most applicants to have a PhD.
MRC particularly encourages applications from:
Overseas researchers based in LMICs
Researchers who are eligible to apply for MRC funding and working in equitable partnership with LMIC researchers.
Ineligible
Researchers not eligible to apply
If you are a researcher based in China or India, you are no longer eligible to be a principal investigator. However, you are welcome to apply as a co-investigator, with an eligible research organisation as the lead.
It is expected that researchers from China, India and any high-income countries (HICs) make a significant contribution to their own research costs, including covering their own overheads.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/applied-global-health-research/