Grand Challenges Explorations - Increasing Demand for Vaccination Services (BMGF)

Increasing Demand for Vaccination Services (Round 22)

THE CHALLENGE

Within this call to increase demand for vaccination services, and thus increase the number of children vaccinated globally, we are looking for innovative ideas in the following specific areas (please specify whether your concept applies to the first, or second challenge, or both):

(1) Novel approaches for providing practical knowledge about vaccines and vaccination services to caregivers

(2) Novel ideas for improving the convenience and/or caregiver seeking of vaccination services

Additionally, we will consider proposals in low-income countries that:

• Are based on human-centered design principles
• Utilize latest thinking in social, economic, and behavioral research
• Do not increase burden upon frontline health workers
• Minimize perverse incentives (including incentives for falsification)
• Are relevant in multiple developing country settings
• Constitute transformative rather than incremental improvements and are deliverable and scalable in low-income countries

Key features of the GCE initiative are:
• A two-page application.
• Rapid turnaround time. We select projects within approximately five months of the proposal
submission.
• Blinded and champion-based review process. Reviewers with a track record in identifying
innovative ideas select the proposals they find most pioneering without need for consensus.
• Awards of $100,000 USD are made in Phase I. Phase I awardees have one opportunity to apply
for a follow-on Phase II award of up to $1,000,000 USD.

INDIRECT COSTS
Project funds may not be used to pay any indirect costs.

Key Dates 
September 2018: Application period opens
Application deadline: Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 11:30 a.m. US Pacific Standard Time
February 2019: Proposal review completed
April 2019: Selections completed, and notifications sent
May 2019: Awarded projects start date

Eligibility Criteria
GCE is open to both foreign and domestic organizations, including non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions.

Links:

https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/increasing-demand-vaccination-services-round-22

https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/sites/default/files/additional-materials/GCE_Rules_and_Guidelines_Round22.pdf

Grassroots Initiative Grants for People Living with HIV (EJAF)

Through the Fund for Key Populations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Foundation and partners support initiatives benefiting the populations most-at-risk for HIV in this region.

Type of projects: Projects providing tangible impacts on individuals living with and communities affected by HIV Aids 
Location: Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria, Russian Federation, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Eligibility: UK and Southern CSOs can apply
Grant range: £10,000 - £15,000 (approx. 428,300 Thai Baht)


ROBERT KEY MEMORIAL FUND

Open to organisations that can demonstrate an immediate, tangible benefit for individuals living with HIV.

Must not exceed £10,000 per year

 Can be for 1 or 2 years in length
 Must provide an immediate and tangible benefit to People Living with HIV
 Proposals must be for a specific project and demonstrate a clear need for support
 We do not fund salary costs solely (salary costs may however be included as part of the budget of an overall project)

Types of programmes we would consider under the Robert Key Memorial Fund are:
- Small scale interventions or projects working with People Living with HIV
- Projects that fight stigma and discrimination against People Living with HIV
- Immediate services such as urgent care or medical interventions for PLHIV

Types of programmes we would not support under the Robert Key Memorial Fund are:
- Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT)
- Awareness raising/prevention
- Behaviour change
- Programmes that re-grant or provide sub-grants to other organisations
- General running/operational costs for your organisation
- Research Projects

Deadline:
This fund is open for application all year round.

Links:

https://london.ejaf.org/grants/#our+grants

https://london.ejaf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/RKMF-Grant-Criteria.pdf

Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program (GID) NIH

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: PAR-18-840

D43 International Research Training Grants

Companion Funding Opportunity:  PAR-17-058 D71 International Research Training Planning Grant

Funding Opportunity Purpose

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for the Global Infectious Disease (GID) Research Training Program from U.S. and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions. The application should propose a collaborative training program that will strengthen the capacity of an LMIC institution to conduct infectious disease research. FIC will support research-training programs that focus on major endemic or life-threatening emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, infections that frequently occur as co-infections in HIV infected individuals or infections associated with non-communicable disease conditions of public health importance in LMICs.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) allows support of trainees as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial; or a separate ancillary study to an existing trial; or to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, as part of their research and career development. 

Program Objectives

The objectives of the Global Infectious Disease Research Training program are:

- To develop research training opportunities and career development activities for a cadre of LMIC scientists and health research professionals to strengthen the capacity to conduct independent, sustainable infectious disease research at a LMIC institution.

- To provide mentored training-related infectious disease research experience that is directly relevant to the health priorities of the LMIC.

- To strengthen the capabilities of trainees at LMIC institutions to lead, manage and train others in infectious disease research.

 The training program should provide:

• A strong foundation in research design, methods, and analytic techniques appropriate for the proposed infectious disease research area;
• The enhancement of the LMIC trainees' ability to conceptualize and think through research problems with increasing independence;
• Experience conducting infectious disease research using state-of-the-art methods as well as trainees presenting and publishing their research findings;
• The opportunity to interact with members of the scientific community at appropriate scientific meetings and workshops; and
• The enhancement of the LMIC trainees' understanding of the health-related sciences and the relationship of their research training to health and disease.

The Global Infectious Disease Research Training programs should be designed to move beyond training numbers of people for the next career level to demonstratively increasing sustainable, independently resourced infectious disease research capacity at the proposed LMIC institution.  It is expected that the training strategies employed will contribute to measurable enhancement of defined infectious disease research capacity outcomes.

The proposed institutional infectious disease research training program may complement other ongoing research training and career development programs at the applicant institution, but the proposed program must be clearly distinct from related programs.

Eligibility
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.

Award Budget
Applications budgets are limited to $230,000 per year for new awards and $276,000 per year for renewal awards (total direct costs).

Award Project Period
The maximum project period is up to 5 years.  

Key Dates
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date): June 26, 2018  

Letter of Intent Due Date(s): 30 days prior to the application due date  

*Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.

Expiration Date: July 26, 2019

Inquiries

Scientific/Research Contact

Barbara Sina, Ph.D.Program Director
Division of International Training and Research
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room B2C39
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: (301) 402-9467
FAX: (301) 402-0779
Email: barbara_sina@nih.gov

Grants Management Contact

Satabdi RaychowdhuryGrants Management Specialist
Fogarty International Center
Building 31, Room B2C29
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: 301-496-9750
Fax: 301-594-1211
Email: Satabdi.Raychowdhury@nih.gov

Award Budget

(D43) Applications budgets are limited to $230,000 per year for new awards and $276,000 per year for renewal awards (total direct costs).
(D71) Applications budgets are limited to $46,000 (total direct costs).

Award Project Period
(D43) The maximum project period is 5 years.
(D71) The maximum project period is 1 year.  

*Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.

Deadline

Application Due Date(s)

July 26, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.  All types of non-AIDS applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.

Full details: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-18-840.html

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Initiative (EEID)

Status: Accepting applications

Apply through NSF program solicitation- https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18581/nsf18581.htm#toc 

Program Overview

This joint National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative supports efforts to understand the underlying ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships between human-induced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. The highly interdisciplinary research projects funded under this program apply both ecological and biomedical methods, and study how environmental events such as habitat alteration, biological invasion, climate change, and pollution alter the risks of emergence and transmission of viral, parasitic, and bacterial diseases in humans and other animals. Projects are encouraged to consider how integrated environmental and biomedical approaches to infectious diseases may enhance our ability to predict and control them.

Eligibility: 

Who May Submit Proposals:

The categories of proposers eligible to submit proposals to the National Science Foundation are identified in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide(PAPPG), Chapter I.E.

Who May Serve as PI:

There are no restrictions or limits.

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:

There are no restrictions or limits.

Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or Co-PI: 2

In a given year, an individual may participate as a PI, co-PI, or sub-award lead on no more than two proposals submitted in response to this solicitation. This limit does not include RCN proposals. In addition, an individual from Israel may participate in no more than oneUS-BSF proposal and an individual from China may participate in no more than one US-China proposal. Proposals in excess of the limit for any person will be returned without review in the reverse order received. Participating in a proposal as other senior personnel does not count in this limit. Changes in investigator roles post-submission to meet the eligibility limits will not be allowed. It is the responsibility of the submitters to confirm that the entire team is within the eligibility guidelines.

Deadlines

• Upcoming application deadline: November 21, 2018
• Estimated future deadlines: third Wednesday in November, annually

Recent Awards

• View a full list of NIH EEID Awards
• View a full list of NSF EEID Awards

More information

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5269

Inquiries

Programmatic Issues

Dr. Christine Jessup
Program Officer
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, B2C39
31 Center Drive MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Phone: (301) 496-1653
Fax: (301) 402-0779
Email: Christine.Jessup@nih.gov

Grants Management

Mollie Shea
Grants Management Specialist
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room B2C29
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: 301-496-9750
Fax: 301-594-1211
Email: Mollie.Shea@nih.gov

Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award

Program Overview

The Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award aims to provide research support and protected time to a research scientist from a LMIC who holds an academic junior faculty position or research scientist appointment at an LMIC academic or research institution. Low-income, lower-middle-income and upper-middle-income countries are included.

Applications are invited from LMIC research scientists from any health-related discipline who propose both critically needed career development activities and a research project that is highly relevant to the health priorities of their country.

Status: Accepting applications

Eligibility

• Some current and former NIH PDs/PIs are not eligible, as specified in the May 31, 2017 notice of change in eligibility (NOT-TW-17-004).
• Updated Notice of change in eligibility (NOT-TW-18-002), released November 8, 2017
• Only low- or middle-income country (LMIC) institutions are eligible.
• Income categories are defined by The World Bank Country and Lending Groups .
• Country eligibility for Fogarty International Training Grants applies.
• Candidates must be LMIC citizens.
• Candidates must hold an academic junior faculty position or research scientist appointment at the LMIC applicant institution and must have been in this position for at least one year at the time the application is submitted.
• Candidates are required to have both U.S. and LMIC primary mentors.
• Research should take place primarily in the LMIC.
• Individuals who have already received independent research funding are not eligible.
• Applicants should demonstrate that they are committed to an independent research career and justify the need for three to five years of mentored research experience in order to become an independent research scientist.
• View full eligibility details in the program announcement and refer to FAQs.

Deadlines

• Letter of Intent due dates: 30 days before the application due date​
• Upcoming application due date: November 7, 2018

Recent Awards

View a list of Emerging Global Leader awards by institution.

Frequently Asked Questions

​Access answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award

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More information- https://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/Pages/emerging-global-leader.aspx?utm_source=funding-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=funding-news

Planning for Non-Communicable Diseases and Disorders Research Training Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries (NIH)

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: PAR-17-097

D71 International Research Training Planning Grant

Funding Opportunity Purpose

This  Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for research training program planning invites submissions from low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institution(s) with existing research and research training capacity in chronic, non-communicable diseases and disorders (NCDs). These institutions must propose to assess needs and develop a plan for a research training program within the LMIC(s) that will further strengthen the capacity of LMIC individuals, institution(s) and country(ies) to identify NCD priorities and conduct NCD research across the lifespan. The application from the LMIC institution(s) may include collaboration with United States (U.S) institutions and other LMIC institutions as justified and appropriate.    

Research Objectives

• To assess the existing research and research training capacity at the applicant LMIC institution in the proposed scientific area(s) that are directly relevant to the LMIC health priorities in order to show feasibility to develop a new or continued research training program directed from and at the LMIC institution;
• To develop a detailed vision and strategies for implementing an innovative research training program at and led by the LMIC institution for multiple scientists and health research professionals;
• To plan to strengthen both the trainees' capacity to conduct, and the applicant LMIC institution's capacity to support and promote, independent, sustainable research;
• To identify the research training, faculty development, scientific environment and administrative resources still needed to undertake such a research training program by the LMIC institution after building on prior initiatives such as collaborations under an FIC D43.
• To define a pool of the best-qualified potential LMIC trainees that could be recruited and the selection process for future research training;
• To develop defined collaborations and roles of all individual and institutional partners for an effective organizational structure that will support the envisioned D43 research training program; and
• To lay the foundation for sustainable, competitive NCD D43 research training program in and led by the LMIC(s).

Eligibility
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.

Award Budget
Application budgets are limited $46,000 (total direct costs).

Award Project Period
The maximum project period is 1 year.

Key Dates
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date): February 14, 2017  

Letter of Intent Due Date(s): 30 days prior to the application due date  

*Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.

Scientific Merit Review: June 2019  
Advisory Council Review: August 2019
Earliest Start Date: February 2020
Expiration Date: March 15, 2019

Deadline
Application Due Date(s):
March 14, 2019 by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of AIDS and AIDS-related applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.

Full details: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-097.html

Elucidating the Functional Roles of Non-Coding RNAs in Viral Infectious Diseases (NIH)

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number: RFA-AI-18-025

R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant

Funding Opportunity Purpose
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) applications to uncover functional roles of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in viral infectious diseases. Importantly, studies should focus on functional characterization and mechanistic studies of previously identified ncRNAs. 

Research Objectives and Scope
The objective of this FOA is to stimulate hypothesis-driven research to facilitate transition of the ncRNA field from discovery toward a deeper mechanistic understanding of the function and regulation of ncRNAs, which will serve as a foundation for future translational research efforts.

This FOA is intended to support research on both host and viral ncRNAs including, but not limited to, those involved in

Viral transcription and replication
Regulation of host response to infection
Pathogenesis
Disease progression and severity
Response to vaccination or treatment

Eligibility
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.

Award Budget
The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in any single year.

Award Project Period
The total project period may not exceed 2 years. 

Key Dates
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date): October 15, 2018

Letter of Intent Due Date(s): October 15, 2018

*Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.

Scientific Merit Review: March 2019
Advisory Council Review: May 2019
Earliest Start Date: July 2019
Expiration Date: November 16, 2018

Deadline
Application Due Date(s):
November 15, 2018 by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. All types of AIDS and AIDS-related applications allowed for this funding opportunity announcement are due on these dates.

Full details: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-18-025.html