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MRC: Applied Global Health Research

The call for proposals, Applied Global Health Research, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) partnering with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) aims to support research projects that will address global health challenges and inequities. This call encourages applications from principal investigators based in low-or-middle income countries (LMICs), as well as researchers based in the UK working in partnership with LMIC investigators.

Funding Agencies:

Medical Research Council (MRC), and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Deadline:

16th February 2023

Fund:

All sizes of applications, including large applications over £2 million and small to medium scale applications will be accepted.

Duration:

12 – 60 months

Theme:

Global Health Challenges and Inequities

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.

Eligibility:

  • MRC particularly encourages applications from researchers based in:
    • LMICs, except China and India
    • UK, working in partnership with LMIC investigators.
      Note: Researchers based in China and India are not eligible as principal investigator, but are welcome to apply as a co-investigator, with an eligible research organisation as the lead.
  • 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 organisation
    • 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.
  • The following collaborating organisations are not eligible to lead a proposal but can be named as Co-Investigators:
    • Non-profit organisations based in an LMIC
    • Institutions based in High-Income Countries (HICs), China or India.
  • You must not be included as principal investigator on more than two proposals at any one time. You may support others as a co-investigator, as long as you have the capacity to do so without detriment to the project you are leading.
  • You must have a graduate degree, although we expect most applicants to have a PhD.

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