Deadline: 30 May 2019
The Department of International Development (DFID), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Wellcome Trust have jointly announced a call for proposals for Health Systems Research Initiative.
Launched in 2013, this programme will generate world-class and cutting-edge research that addresses key questions on strengthening and improving health systems in developing countries.
Innovative proposals are sought from across the public health, social and biomedical sciences to the sixth annual call for the Health Systems Research Initiative.
Aims
The programme’s aims are to fund methodologically rigorous, high-quality research that will:
- Generate evidence on how to strengthen and improve health systems for people living in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). This may include addressing the structure and dynamics of health systems as a whole, improving the long-term resilience of the health system, in addition to generating positive improvements to systems as currently structured.
- Use a health systems approach to inform the delivery of evidence-based interventions or structural changes. Proposals must demonstrate how interventions relate to and affect wider elements of a health system such as governance, financing, health workforce, information systems, service delivery.
- Expand the knowledge base in understanding the structure and dynamics of health systems and provide evidence that is of direct relevance to decision makers and practitioners in the field.
Funding Information
Up to £5 million is available for funding foundation and full proposals under this call.
Eligibility Criteria
- The growing recognition that the challenges confronting health systems in developing countries require a research response that transcends disciplinary boundaries highlights the urgent need for research to foster genuine interdisciplinary collaborations across all areas of social science, biomedical science and other disciplines.
- The funders welcome multidisciplinary and collaborative applications, including those driven by social science questions. Applicants should also ensure they embed research within relevant theoretical frameworks, as evidenced by references, to strengthen applications. Teams should also ensure engagement of researchers with strong health systems expertise and demonstrate knowledge of, and potential contribution to, relevant health systems empirical literature.
- Recognising that health systems are complex and multidimensional, this scheme welcomes research that identifies and addresses a range of health systems topics including but not limited to questions of governance, structure, institutions, social policy, health workforce, financing, private sector, civil society, information systems, products and technologies, service delivery and so on.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted electronically through the Je-S system.
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