Deadline: 31 May 2017
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is currently accepting Letters of Intent (LOI) for its grants programme for implementation research.
Implementation research is the scientific inquiry into questions concerning implementation—the act of carrying an intention into effect, which in health research can be policies, programmes, or individual practices (collectively called interventions).
Priority Areas
The following three types of research studies will be considered:
- New implementation research studies
- Within ongoing studies, additional implementation research
- Analyses of relevant existing datasets and policy analyses as part of routine reporting systems under M&E.
Eligibility Criteria
- Research institutions and teams within the country who are involved / interested in implementation research.
- One of the lead investigators should be a stakeholder from health system / include at least one policy-maker who should be part of the core decision-making team of the research project.
- The composition of the research team must be multidisciplinary in two aspects:
- mix of expertise (e.g. social sciences, epidemiology, statistician, health system, health economics; etc.)
- mix of roles and responsibilities within the health system (e.g. researchers, policy-makers, programme managers, members of NGOs/civil society)
- Each research study shall have an integral component on strengthening capacity of researchers, as well as research users.
- Each letter of intent shall describe the roles and responsibilities of each team member – in particular the policy-maker – in the planning, conduct and successful development of the study, as well as in the utilization of the study-findings.
- Each research study shall emphasize the potential to replicate the findings of the study in other settings within the country.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
For more information, please visit Indian Council of Medical Research.