In order not to limit the potential for inter-disciplinary innovation under this call the call is open to proposals addressing any global public health issue affecting low and middle countries.
The following activities are permissible under this partnership grant scheme:
- Establishing inter-disciplinary collaborative partnerships or consortia
- Developing strategy to strengthen research activity across the field
- Knowledge sharing across research departments and/or between institutions and across sectoral boundaries both within the UK and with LMIC based colleagues.
- Small scale/pilot/proof of principle/exploratory/ higher risk inter-disciplinary projects to explore innovative boundary crossing collaborations
- Cross-disciplinary (and cross-cultural / language) literature reviews/ research synthesis/ evidence analysis or integrative data sharing and analysis,
- Widening/ extending the disciplinary breadth of existing teams / partnerships (e.g. through placements, embedding, ethnographic research)
- Career development, inter-disciplinary skills enhancement and capacity building.
- Establishing shared infrastructure, for example, staff, systems, equipment, data, seminars, workshops. This could include a co-ordinated set of needs-led and complimentary networking activities (including outreach work and travel) with a defined output.
Eligibility: a UK university will be the applicant but they must partner with an LMIC institution ( Low and middle income country, this includes Thailand)
Budget: Applicants may request up to 200,000 GBP
Duration: The maximum project period is 2 years.
Deadline: 4 pm BST Thursday 26 October 2017
Full details: www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/ahrc-mrc-gcrf-2/ahrc-mrc-global-public-health-partnership-awards-call-2/
