This call is for applications from universities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to host and manage the TDR international post graduate training scheme on implementation research (IR). The long term goal is to strengthen capacity of disease endemic countries for identifying public health needs, develop appropriate solutions and translate them into policy and practice for improved health and wellbeing of their populations.
Jobs and Announcements
Call for Grant Applications or/and letters of interest: Selection of universities to manage TDR International Post Graduate Training Scheme (2015 to 2019)
Deadline 28 February 2015
Call for individual abstracts: Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, 2016
Closing date for submission: 20 Mar 2016
The Symposium invites abstracts for individual presentations, linked to the following sub-themes: Enhancing health system resilience: absorbing shocks and sustaining gains in every setting; Equity, rights, gender and ethics: maintaining responsiveness through values-based health systems; Engaging power and politics in promoting health and public value; Implementing improvement and innovation in health services and systems; New partnerships and collaborations for health system research and development; Future reciprocal learning and evaluation approaches for health system development. Abstracts in a given sub-theme may address any of the Symposium’s traditional ‘field-building dimensions’: Cutting-edge research, Innovative research approaches and measures, Novel strategies for developing capacity, Learning communities and knowledge translation, Innovative practice in health systems development. See website for details.
Call for input into Global Health Watch 2007-2008
GHWatch newsletter
We had a good response to our call for input into Global Health Watch 2007-2008. The steering committee met in March to finalise the broad framework for the next edition. We would like to have more writers from developing countries in this edition of the Watch. Please let us know if you are interested. We aim to get the first drafts of the chapters back by the end of November 2006.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31484
Contact: ghw@hst.org.za
Call for Interest: Membership of the UNITAID - WHO Proposal Review Committee.
UNITAID
UNITAID is a global health initiative, established to provide sustainable, predictable and additional funding to significantly impact on market dynamics to reduce prices and increase the availability and supply of high quality medicines, diagnostics and related commodities for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, primarily for populations in low-income and lower-middle income countries. This is a transparent "call for interest" from individuals wishing to apply for membership of their Proposal Review Committee ("PRC"); an independent, impartial team of experts tasked with providing technical expertise to UNITAID on proposals and related projects submitted to UNITAID for funding. Details of how to submit an application are at http://www.unitaid.eu/en/Requests-for-proposals-RFP.html with individual TORs and expertise criteria.
Call for interest: Monitoring of budgets and tracking expenditure for health and HIV and AIDS in Africa
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA Africa)
The Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa (CEGAA) and the International Budget Project (IBP), kindly sponsored by the FORD Foundation, is offering a two-week training to civil society organizations/research agencies in: "Monitoring of budgets and tracking expenditure for health and HIV/AIDS". The training is to take place from the 18th to the 30th June 2007, venue still to be confirmed. After the training, CEGAA will provide technical support to participating organizations, so as to ensure the fruitful outcome of the research and advocacy projects. More details can be found on the weblink below.
Call for Letters of Intent - MIM in Africa
MIM/TDR is a multi-partner programme promoting research capability strengthening activities in the context of the Multilateral Initiative for Malaria in Africa. The goal is to promote human and institutional resource development by supporting innovative collaborative research projects and networks in malaria endemic countries focused on strategic research areas.
Projects supported to date have addressed critical issues related to chemotherapy, pathogenesis, vector control and epidemiology of malaria transmission and morbidity in Africa. The Task Force is initiating a new cycle of partnership projects expanding the scope of priorities to include the development of new interventions, strategies and policies, and the evaluation of large-scale interventions in support of malaria control.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28567
Call for Letters of Intent - New Initiative
The Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI), a partnership among the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Health Canada (HC) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), invites letters of intent from teams composed of Canadian and low and middle-income country (LMIC) researchers and research users (e.g. policy makers, practitioners, civil society organizations and community members), interested in developing innovative multi-year programs that combine applied research, knowledge translation and capacity building to solve pressing health problems in LMICs.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31149
Call for letters of intent. The Economic Globalisation, Growth and HIV/AIDS Initiative: Research grants
The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD)
The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) based in Canada, invite letters of intent from teams led or co-led by researchers from low- and middle income countries interested in conducting innovative projects exploring the linkages among economic globalisation, growth and HIV/AIDS along two themes: Exploring how HIV/AIDS interacts with efforts to facilitate inclusive or pro-poor growth strategies; and exploring the impacts of economic globalisation and growth on vulnerability and resilience to HIV/AIDS. The initial funding round will support up to five grants at a maximum of Canadian$100,000 (approximately US$90,000) each for one- to two-year projects. The application process is in two stages: letters of intent and then full proposals. Letters of intent will undergo competitive peer review, and successful applicants will be provided with Canadian$2,000 to support development of the full proposal. Full proposals will undergo competitive peer review. The deadline for application is 1 November 2007.
Call for Letters of Intent: Implementation Research Teams
Deadline: 20 May 2014
The Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa program is launching a call for letters of intent for the selection of Implementation Research Teams. This program is funded by Canada’s Global Health Research Initiative, a collaboration of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and IDRC.Sub-Saharan Africa is the program’s region of focus. The proposed research project must take place in at least one of the targeted countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Tanzania. (Research can also take place concurrently in other countries.
Call for letters of intent: WHO's grants programme for implementation research
Submission deadline: 31 July 2010
Applicants are invited to submit letters of intent for the World Health Organization's Grants Programme of its Implementation Research Platform for the years 2010-2011. Letters of intent should describe prospective implementation research studies that would assist the scaling-up of health interventions to accelerate progress on Millennium Development Goals 4, 5 and 6, and promote sustainability in the strengthening of health systems. The following three types of research studies will be considered: new implementation research studies; additional implementation research within ongoing studies; and analyses of relevant existing datasets and policy analyses from completed qualitative and quantitative studies or datasets collected as part of routine reporting systems, such as monitoring and evaluation. The size of the budget for each grant will be based on the scope and focus of research proposals. The maximum budget for any individual country proposal supported from this initiative should not exceed US$500,000.