Deadline: 26 September 2017
Applications are open for MRC-CONFAP’s “Health System Research Networks” to support UK-Brazil partnerships working to identify research questioned focused on improving the health system and health care for vulnerable communities in Brazil.
Proposed research activities should aim to provide evidence to strengthen the Brazilian health system and improve health outcomes. The joint funders will award proposals for rigorous, high quality research that will:
- Generate evidence on how to strengthen the health system and improve health outcomes in Brazil.
- Inform the delivery of evidence-based interventions or structural changes
- Provide evidence that is of direct relevance to decision makers and users in the field.
Research Impact
- Applicants must identify the potential impacts of their research on policy and practice and outline clear relevance to decision makers and practitioners.
- Projects should identify and address the key barriers to implementation and uptake of evidence-based interventions at local and national levels, paving the way for their successful adoption into routine practice with improved access and use by the populations in need.
- Solutions to strengthening health systems in Brazil must be rooted in, and acceptable to, the institutions, communities, and societies where they will operate.
- Researchers are encouraged to be innovative in the kinds of user engagement, knowledge exchange, communications and research uptake activities they plan to undertake during and beyond the period of research funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- This programme funds partnership working between UK and Brazilian researchers. Each network must be interdisciplinary and include researchers from at least 2 (no more than 4) participating FAPs in Brazil, and at least one UK partner.
- The MRC will make up to £2.0m available for this scheme to fund the UK collaborators. The £2m made available by the UK funders will be matched with equivalent effort from the Brazilian FAPs, who will fund the Brazilian collaborators.
- The agencies would expect to fund approximately 8-12 projects in total. The size of the grants will vary according to the needs of each research project.
- Applicants do not need to request equal amounts from both sides. The difference in values should reflect the difference in costs covered and local prices. The agencies also expect the costs on each side to accurately reflect the research effort to be carried out. It is expected that the research effort on both sides is comparable.
- UK and Brazilian applicants are allowed to participate in 1 (one) proposal as Principal Investigator (PI) and an additional proposal as co-Principal Investigator. Multiple submissions from researchers of the same Institution of Higher Education and Research are permissible.
- Applicants must be eligible to apply for funding from their respective country’s funding agency.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom and Brazil
For more information, please visit MRC-CONFAP.