Deadline: 15 November 2016
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking applications from eligible organisations for a program entitled “Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa): Global Health Bioinformatics Research Training Program” with an aim to support bioinformatics research training programs at low or middle income (LMIC) African country institutions with significant genomics research capacity.
In 2012, the NIH in partnership with the Wellcome Trust, and with advice from the African Society of Human Genetics, initiated the Human Heredity and Health in Africa Program (H3Africa). At the NIH, H3Africa is a component of the NIH Common Fund’s Global Health Initiative, and several Institutes and Centers have joined the Common Fund to support it.
Recognizing that African researchers and populations have been, and still are, substantially underrepresented in genomics and environmental research and disproportionately affected by some environmental exposures, H3Africa is designed to provide new opportunities to African scientists to lead research on the genetic and environmental contributors to health and disease issues of importance to Africa through the use of genomics and other cutting-edge approaches.
Objectives
- A strong foundation in research design, methods, and analytic techniques appropriate for bioinformatics research related to genomic approaches to global health issues;
- The enhancement of the trainees’ ability to conceptualize and think through research problems with increasing independence;
- Experience conducting research using state-of-the-art methods as well as presenting and publishing research findings;
- The opportunity to interact with members of the scientific community at appropriate scientific conferences and workshops; and
- The enhancement of the trainees’ understanding of the health-related sciences and the relationship of their bioinformatics research training to global health.
Funding Information
- Application budgets are limited to $250,000 per year in total costs.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Project Priorities
Applicants may propose to provide training through a partnership structure. Partnerships should be well justified to enhance the specific objectives of the training program. A partnership structure including African, U.S. or other high income country (HIC) institutions may be proposed to:
- Involve faculty with the specific technical bioinformatics expertise needed initially to offer curriculum and relevant mentored research training across the range of bioinformatics subfields.
- Involve faculty with expertise in a specific global health focus needed initially to offer curriculum and relevant mentored research training relevant to create interdisciplinary bioinformatics researchers able to contribute to broad global health areas such as environmental health, non-communicable or infectious disease.
Eligibility Criteria
Only public or private institutions of higher education in African low or middle income countries (LMICs) are eligible to apply.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must submit their applications electronically via given website.
For more information, please visit grants.gov.