NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research programme

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-and-support/global-health-research/programmes/globalhpsr.htm

The NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research (Global HPSR) programme aims to support research in global health policy and systems research which is directly and primarily of benefit to people in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This will be driven by effective equitable partnerships between LMIC and UK researchers, who together will:

• engage stakeholders
• identify and address priorities for research in health policy and health systems, and
• develop plans for capacity strengthening and knowledge sharing

A series of three complementary research funding opportunities are planned.
These have been informed by stakeholder engagement, including the development of a global HPSR community of interest.

Development Awards

• Opening June 2019, up to 9 months, up to £100,000 per award
• To allow development of equitable partnerships between ODA-eligible LMIC researchers and UK institutions to: identify and engage relevant stakeholders (policy makers and LMIC communities); undertake a needs-assessment and identify local priorities for research, with the aim that Development Awards will support an application for future research funding.

Commissioned

• Opening September 2019 (tbc), with funding for up to 4 years and up to £4M per award
• A commissioned funding opportunity, which will be aligned with the WHO campaign to promote universal health coverage towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Researcher-led 

• Opening Sept 2020 (tbc), with funding for up to 4 years, between £2-4M per award
• This will be an open funding opportunity and will align with the end of the Development Awards (not restricted to Development Award holders)

All applications will require:

• two joint-lead applicants (LMIC and UK) with funding and contracting via the UK administering institution
• plans for engagement with key stakeholders such as policy makers, communities, patients and researchers, to facilitate locally relevant research priority setting, needs assessment and a strategy for appropriate research uptake and dissemination
• assessment of training and capability needs and how to best address them, particularly in low resourced settings.

Applications for the Commissioned and Researcher-led funding opportunities will be expected to consist of up to a maximum of 5 institutions in consortia that are able to support knowledge exchange, relevant capacity and capability development. These partnerships can be established as part of the Development Awards.

Applications will be assessed through open competition, with an international independent funding committee.

To be eligible to receive ODA funding, applications must demonstrate how they meet ODA compliance criteria and outline:

which LMIC(s) on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list of ODA-eligible countries will directly benefit;

how the application is directly and primarily relevant to the development challenges of those countries; and

how the outcomes will promote the health and welfare of people in the country or countries on the DAC list.

NIHR Research Professorships Expression of Interest Form NIHR Research Professorships call summary

Expression of Interest for Nomination to apply to

• NIHR Research Professorship Round 10
• NIHR Global Health Research Professorship Round 3

Dear All

Each year the NIHR runs an NIHR Research Professorship call. We may nominate a maximum of two nominations. Where two nominees are put forward for consideration, at least one of these must be female.

This year’s call (Round 10) is likely to be launched in September with a closing date in November.

As these are highly competitive and complex applications we need to select our nominees in advance of the call being issued, and possibly even for next year’s call, to give nominees sufficient time to craft their applications and seek the required institutional commitment from the University and their NHS partner.

Occasionally NIHR also runs an NIHR Global Health Research Professorship call.

We think there may be another round (Round 3) this year, so we are also asking for people to express an interest in applying to this call

Those wishing to put themselves forward for this year’s nomination and/or next year’s nomination for the Research Professorship/Glbal Health Research Professorship are requested to supply:

• A completed Expression of Interest Form (EoI form attached);
• up to 3 pages of text to cover the study vision; your relationship with your proposed NHS partner; and your prior links and contribution to the NIHR;
• a short CV (up to 4 pages) to include your publication statistics and H index; any previous significant awards/fellowships and measures of esteem.

Please send the above documents to darren.airey@ncl.ac.uk and cc in gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk by 1pm on Monday 22 July 2019

Some brief details of the call are below and a summary of the call is attached but please consult the guidance for the previous rounds:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-research-community/NIHR-academy/nihr-training-programmes/nihr-research-professorships/nihr-research-professorships-round-9.htm

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-research-community/NIHR-academy/nihr-training-programmes/nihr-research-professorships/global-health-research-professorships.htm

The proposal must have clear potential for benefitting patients and the public.
The research can involve: patients; samples or data from patients; people who are not patients; populations; health technology assessment; or health services research.

NIHR Research Professorships are aimed at those undertaking translational research and do not support basic research or work involving animals or their tissue.

Applicant eligibility

• For health researchers and methodologists with an outstanding research record of clinical and applied health research (including social care research) and its effective translation for improved health
• Should display a steep career trajectory over the last 5-10 years, on course to becoming the country’s most outstanding researchers
• Currently at consultant grade or equivalent, and be at an early career stage having spent no more than 5 years at their current level of seniority at the time of application (whether as Professor, Reader, Senior Lecturer/Fellow, Clinician Scientist, Group Leader or similar
• They should not already be established leaders in their field (i.e. excludes NIHR Senior Investigators)

Nominees should be working in the fields of experimental medicine, public health medicine, health services research or methodological research

NIHR has expressed a wish for more applications from non-medical healthcare professions, viz.:

Health economists, medical statisticians, methodologists, epidemiologists, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals (speech & language therapists, occupational therapists etc.), dentists, health care scientists, social scientists, clinical psychologists, analytical chemists, anthropologists, pharmacists, research scientists, nutritionists, medical physicists, medical engineers, radiographers, bio-mechanical engineers, bio-statisticians and bio-informatics.

Though for those not directly involved in delivering clinical service, they will need to demonstrate how they will link with clinical colleagues in order to deliver their research for the benefit of patients.

NIHR Research Professors will be funded to continue to spend up to 2 sessions per week delivering service directly or, if the nominee is not a health professional, an equivalent time collaborating with others to facilitate service delivery.

If any queries please consult gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk

There will be a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants 2019 call briefing delivered by the UK National Contact Point for ERC in Newcastle on 14^th June 2019

Registration: here

This will be aimed at established PIs seeking to undertake ground-breaking, high risk research project within any field of research. Suited to those with significant research achievements over the last ten years. Up to €2.5m for up to 5 years with an additional €1m for eligible ‘start up’ costs associated with applicants moving to EU or for major equipment / research facilities.

There will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2019 call briefing delivered by the UK National Contact Point for MSCA in Newcastle on 13^th June 2019.

Registration: here

This call will provide opportunities to work on research within Europe or outside Europe, deadline 11 September 2019:

• European Fellowships take place in host institutions in EU Member States or Associated Countries and are open to researchers either coming to Europe or moving within Europe
• Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a host institution in a country outside Europe followed by a mandatory return period to a European host institution.