Deadline: 29-Jun-22
The NIHR is seeking applications for Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programme to support targeted research to strengthen health service delivery and resilience in LMICs in the context of extreme weather events.
Aims
Building on the NIHR Global Health Research portfolio principles above, the strategic aims across the RIGHT programme are to:
- Deliver applied health research for the direct and primary benefit to LMICs, typically through research in key thematic areas for the prevention of ill health and optimal disease management.
- Strengthen capacity for research and knowledge exchange through equitable partnerships between researchers and institutions involved in the research.
- Promote interdisciplinary approaches to working (including, but not limited to: clinical medicine, health economics, statistics, qualitative and social sciences), to ensure that research objectives can be delivered.
- Generate new research knowledge and evidence on interventions to improve health outcomes of people in LMICs.
Priorities & Focus
- In order to achieve the aims outlined above, the NIHR is seeking applications to RIGHT Call 5 for programmes of applied health research that can strengthen health service delivery and resilience in LMICs in the context of extreme weather events caused by the changing climate.
- These should focus on developing and evaluating interventions to address one or more of the following priority areas:
- Strengthen emergency preparedness and resilience of health services in areas prone to climate-related extreme weather events.
- Adapt existing health services following disruption caused by an extreme weather event.
- Deliver climate-informed health services able to effectively and sustainably respond to extreme weather events.
- Applicants will need to justify how plans will focus on extreme weather events and how they will improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations in LMICs.
Funding Information
- The amount requested and the length of the funding period should be fully justified according to the nature of the proposed research.
- Through this call, awards up to £3 million, typical range £1-3 million (maximum of £3 million) over 3-5 years are available for eligible research. Applications in the lower part of this range are welcomed where smaller programmes will address the proposed area of research.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications must be led by either:
- A Principal Investigator (Lead Applicant) employed by an LMIC Higher Education Institution (HEI) or Research Institute.
Or
- A Principal Investigator employed by a UK HEI or Research Institute (UK Joint Lead Applicant) to jointly lead with a Principal Investigator employed by an LMIC HEI or Research Institute (LMIC Joint Lead Applicant).
- The contracting institution must be a HEI or Research Institute. For RIGHT Call 5, an LMIC or UK Research Institute is considered to be a not-for-profit research organisation with a proven track record in, and sufficient research and financial capacity to manage and deliver research and training, in the field or discipline in which it is applying for funding.
- For organisations that have not previously been funded by the RIGHT programme, additional eligibility and due diligence checks may be undertaken in addition to standard NIHR eligibility and due diligence checks prior to contracting.
- Depending on the nature of the partnership, there may be other affiliated Co-applicants (maximum of 15) and collaborators/project partners including service level providers.
- Contracting and funding must take place via the lead administering institution (i.e. the LMIC or UK Joint Lead Applicant’s official organisation, i.e. the organisation where the LMIC/UK Joint Lead Applicant is employed).
- Commercial organisations or governmental agencies cannot be a Lead or Joint Lead on an application as they do not fall under any of the eligible categories mentioned on the official website.
- Non-health research institutions, e.g. an institute of engineering, can act as Co-Applicants or Collaborators, provided their expertise is relevant to the plans proposed.
- Under this call, an individual cannot be named as Lead/Joint Lead Applicant on more than one application.
- There are no restrictions on the number of applications an institution can submit under this call provided they are distinct in their objectives.
- Existing NIHR Global Health Research award holders are eligible to apply to this call provided there is assurance they have sufficient plans in terms of time and resources available to them to deliver concurrent awards successfully.
Please note: Where the contracting organisation is a UK institution with a UK Joint Lead Applicant, it is mandatory for an LMIC Joint Lead Applicant to be included on the application, with the expectation that the joint leadership/partnership is equitable. Where the contracting organisation is an LMIC institution, a UK Joint Lead Applicant is not a mandatory requirement. LMIC Lead Applicants may propose joint leadership partnerships with a Principal Investigator from another eligible LMIC or UK institution, or lead the application without a Joint Lead Applicant.
ODA Eligibility
- The NIHR Global Health Research portfolio supports high-quality applied health research for the direct and primary benefit of people in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) on the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list, using Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding.
- In order to be eligible to receive NIHR Global Health Research funding, applications must demonstrate how they meet ODA compliance criteria and outline:
- Which country or countries on the OECD DAC list will directly benefit?
- How is the application directly and primarily relevant to the development challenges of those countries?
- How will the outcomes promote the health and welfare of people in a country or countries on the DAC list
For more information, visit https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/research-and-innovation-for-global-health-transformation-call-5/30022?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=right5