Deadline: 2 May 2018
Grand Challenges Brazil (GC Brazil), in partnership with Ministry of Health of Brazil, National Council on Research (CNPq), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (the “foundation”) have jointly launched a program entitled “Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Brazil”.
There remain key knowledge gaps in understanding how nutrition, prenatal and antenatal care, maternal support, and environmental and social factors contribute to an elevated risk of poor maternal and childhood health outcomes. Such an understanding is required to determine what interventions, including health policies, should be delivered to which group of individuals at what point in their lifecycle to ensure optimal outcomes.
Priorities
- Support innovative collaborations between Brazilian research scientists, healthcare experts, and data scientists;
- Answer critical scientific questions identified in this GCE, while building and strengthening data science capacity for Brazil;
- Take into account social, environmental and cultural determinants of outcomes and incorporate an understanding of the target community that includes barriers and constraints to delivery of interventions and to implementation of public health programs;
- Contribute to a portfolio of funded projects that addresses regional diversity and the need to provide health equity for diverse and vulnerable populations;
- Explain how answers will have the highest likelihood of being relevant for implementation broadly in the public health system;
- Describe mechanistic models for establishing the relationship between interventions and its related outcomes.
Grant Information
Awards of up to $100,000 USD will be made.
Eligibility Criteria
The GCE-Brazil Request for Proposals is open exclusively to Brazilian researchers located in Brazilian organizations, including non-profit organizations, for-profit companies, international organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions.
How to Apply
Applicants must download the application form via given website.
For more information, please visit GCE-Brazil.