This grant aims to provide support for the development of broadly interdisciplinary training programs in global health directed towards encouraging innovation in products, processes, and policies. Trainees should be at the postdoctoral level or have attained a terminal degree in their fields. Training projects should identify critical health needs in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) that can be addressed through Innovation, and carry out the scientific research necessary to develop, validate, and test their concepts. To increase the translation of research findings into realized health benefits, project design should include considerations of implementation appropriate to low resource settings in LMICs, particularly regarding increased effectiveness, affordability, accessibility, ease of use or delivery, and/or scalability.
The 3 goals of this grant are:
1. To expand the base of expertise needed and available to tackle the challenging problems of global health by developing trans-institutional, problem-solving based research training programs that will bring together trainees of widely diverse expertise to work together on research problems in Global Health.
2. To stimulate new knowledge, approaches, and solutions in global health.
3. To integrate global health research communities within and among institutions by building capacity at the institution(s) to support an interdisciplinary research training program in Global Health Innovation.
The application must include participation by at least three Schools, departments, or entities of distinct disciplines, either at the applicant institution or among a consortium. Subspecialties within a field, such as Medicine, would not qualify as distinct disciplines, and three departments within one School are unlikely to meet this standard.
This grant is worth $350,000 in total costs per year over 5 years. The deadline is 15 December 2011.
For more details, see:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-003.html
TropMed Sponsored Research Funding Opportunities: this blog is designed to alert TropMed researchers to funding opportunities to support their research. The Research Administration Unit of the Office of Research Services (ORS) is here to help staff members with all application, grant management, and post-grant processes. Please contact Mr. Paul Adams or Mr. Oiko Tacusalme on ext. 1332 for more information, or to express interest in any of these grant opportunities.
