Deadline: 18 July 2019
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is seeking applications for its Public Health Intervention Development Scheme (PHIND) 2019 to support the early stages of development of interventions that address an important UK or global public health issue.
The scheme supports projects that will develop innovative new interventions that address an important UK or global public health issue, and seeks to encourage a novel, high risk approach to intervention development.
Complex, population level interventions, with a focus on non-health care settings (such as: transport, education, employment, leisure and the built environment), are considered particularly suitable. Health care settings are not excluded, but projects should demonstrate potential for improved health of general, high risk or vulnerable populations.
Types of Research
- Proposals should address the early stage of development of new interventions including qualitative and quantitative primary research, developing theory and designing the intervention.
- Examples of the types of research within scope are:
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- Defining the intervention
- Specifying content
- Developing theory
- Modelling process and outcomes such as developing logic models
- Identifying components and their inter-relationships
- Developing procedures and protocols
- Creation of new interventions where active components of existing interventions are recombined to create a new intervention
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Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for up to £150K (MRC Contribution), for a maximum of 18 months.
- Funds may be requested to support costs attributable to the study including investigator and research staff time, consumables, equipment and travel.
Criteria
The panel will assess applications against the following criteria:
- The importance of the public health question and need for an intervention to address the issue(s).
- The proposed approach including methodology, innovation and likelihood of the outcomes of the proposed study to fill a current gap in knowledge.
- The research team, research environment and stakeholder partners.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit https://mrc.ukri.org/funding/browse/public-health-intervention-development-scheme/public-health-intervention-development-scheme-phind-july-2019/