Deadline: 25 July 2019
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking applications from eligible organisations “Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program” with an aim to strengthen the capacity of an LMIC institution to conduct infectious disease research.
Fogarty International Center (FIC) will support research-training programs that focus on major endemic or life-threatening emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, infections that frequently occur as co-infections in HIV infected individuals or infections associated with non-communicable disease conditions of public health importance in LMICs.
Program Objectives
- To develop research training opportunities and career development activities for a cadre of LMIC scientists and health research professionals to strengthen the capacity to conduct independent, sustainable infectious disease research at a LMIC institution.
- To provide mentored training-related infectious disease research experience that is directly relevant to the health priorities of the LMIC.
- To strengthen the capabilities of trainees at LMIC institutions to lead, manage and train others in infectious disease research.
Funding Information
- Applications budgets are limited to $230,000 per year for new awards and $276,000 per year for renewal awards (total direct costs).
- The maximum project period is up to 5 years.
Benefits of Training
- A strong foundation in research design, methods, and analytic techniques appropriate for the proposed infectious disease research area;
- The enhancement of the LMIC trainees’ ability to conceptualize and think through research problems with increasing independence;
- Experience conducting infectious disease research using state-of-the-art methods as well as trainees presenting and publishing their research findings;
- The opportunity to interact with members of the scientific community at appropriate scientific meetings and workshops; and
- The enhancement of the LMIC trainees’ understanding of the health-related sciences and the relationship of their research training to health and disease.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications may be submitted by an eligible foreign institution in a LMIC with a collaborating U.S. institution or by an eligible domestic (U.S.) institution that demonstrates collaborations with an LMIC institution named in the application by documented joint publications, grants or previous research training activities.
- Applicants are encouraged to contact the FIC Scientific/Research Contact if more than one U.S. and one LMIC institution will be proposed as training sites.
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can download the application packages via given website.
Eligible Countries: Armenia, Indonesia, Samoa, Bangladesh, Kenya, São Tomé and Principe, Bhutan, Kiribati, Senegal, Bolivia, Kosovo, Solomon Islands, Cape Verde, Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Lao PDR, Sudan, Congo, Rep., Lesotho, Swaziland, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Syrian, Djibouti, Micronesia, Tajikistan, Egypt, Moldova, Timor-Leste, El Salvador, Morocco, Ukraine, Georgia, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Ghana, Nicaragua, Vanuatu, Guatemala, Nigeria, Vietnam, Guyana, Pakistan, West Bank and Gaza, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Yemen, India, Philippines, Zambia and United States.
For more information, please visit Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program.