MRC: Applied Global Health Partnership
Medical Research Council (MRC), partnering with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), have announced a call for the Applied Global Health Partnership. This funding opportunity aims to support a partnership between diverse groups of researchers to enable research 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.
Please note that the applied global health funding opportunity is now split into separate ‘research’ and ‘partnership’ outline application processes. Applicants are advised to read both the ‘Applied Global Health Research’ funding opportunity and this ‘Applied Global Health Partnership’ funding opportunity, before deciding which one is the best fit for their application.
Funding Agencies: MRC under the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and the FCDO
Deadline: 1 August 2023
Fund: All sizes of applications, including large applications of approximately £1 million and small to medium-scale applications.
Research Areas: Global Health Challenges and Inequities
Examples of topics partnerships may focus on 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
- treatment, including surgery
- pain management and palliative care
The MRC FCDO concordat supports global health partnerships 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
Duration: Up to 5 years (Projects typically last 3 to 4 years.)
Eligibility: To be eligible to apply for this funding opportunity, applicants must
- be eligible as an individual.
- be based at an eligible research organisation. These include:
- universities or higher education institutions based in the UK, and includes the following:
- 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;
- organisations in 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.
- universities or higher education institutions based in the UK, and includes the following:
MRC particularly encourages applications from:
- overseas researchers based in LMICs except China and India.
- researchers who are eligible to apply for MRC funding and work in equitable partnership with LMIC researchers.
How to Apply?
Applicants must apply by using the Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system.
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