Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Management

Deadline: 11 April 2017

The European Commission is currently seeking applications for its program titled “Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) Prevention and Management of Mental Disorders”.

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) call will focus on implementation research proposals on child, adolescent and adult age onset mental disorders[2] including, but not limited to, dementia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, alcohol- and drug-use disorders, etc., in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and/or in vulnerable populations in high income countries (HIC).

Proposals must focus on mental disorders as defined by the WHO (see above), and must focus on implementation research in LMIC, and/or in vulnerable populations in HIC. Proposals must build on interventions with promising or proven effectiveness (including cost-effectiveness) for the respective population groups under defined contextual circumstances. Gender-responsive interventions should be addressed, wherever relevant.

Priority Areas

Proposal must address one of or combinations of the following items:

Structural interventions or evidence based policies designed to improve mental health outcomes;
Early case detection and other secondary or tertiary prevention strategies as well as modalities of treatment, care and access to care which are amenable to scale-up. Prevention, early identification and treatment may include validated pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, psychosocial support and other approaches of relevance to mental disorders such as accessibility to and enhancing compliance with the intervention, also considering cultural context. Wherever relevant, comorbidities and their impacts on prevention and treatment strategies should be taken into account;
Ways to empower people with mental health problems as well as professional and informal care-givers like families according to the context are also relevant;
Exploring the scale-up of family/community engagement in patient treatment and care, without pre-empting their living.

Eligibility Criteria

Legal entities established in the following countries and territories will be eligible to receive funding through Horizon 2020 grants:

The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their overseas departments;
The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the Member States
Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Greenland, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Pitcairn Islands, Saba, Saint Barthélémy, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ,Turks and Caicos Islands, Wallis and Futuna.