Identify External Funds to Support your Global Health Research

Quantitative reseearch

large-scale data sets

AERA Research Grants. 

AERA provides small grants for faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars to undertake quantitative research using data from large-scale data sets. The selection process is competitive. AERA-NSF Research Grants are awarded for one or two years, for an amount of up to $35,000.

Please the AERA-NSF Grants Program via email (grantsprogram@aera.net) or phone (202-238-3200) if you have any questions regarding the program.

Proposal: 2/11/2019; 

9/9/2019

Annual (2/9/2020; 9/9/2020)

Team Science

Innovation

NSF

Varies

The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. The program funds research to develop models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process and concern the use and allocation of scarce scientific resources. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across the broad array of science and innovation policy challenges. Proposals also may develop methodologies to analyze science, technology and innovation data, and to usefully convey that information to a variety of audiences. Proposals that create and improve science, engineering and innovation data, including the design of new metrics and indicators, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations, are encouraged.

The SciSIP program welcomes individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation research improvement grants, experimental research, and data collection and dissemination. The SciSIP program also places a high priority on interdisciplinary research and on broadening participation. It encourages proposals from junior faculty, women, and underrepresented minorities, Research Undergraduate Institutions (RUI), and EPSCoR states.

Leadership development

Stipend: $20K/year for 3 yrs (must go to a sponsoring organization--cannot go directly to an individual)

Implementation & evaluation funds: $35K

The Culture of Health Leaders program offers leadership development for leaders from all sectors and is based on evidence, informed by experience, and grounded in principles of equity and social justice. These principles are the basis of everything participants experience throughout the program.

This structured three-year program is for any individual—from any walk of life (for-profit, nonprofit, government, or social enterprise)—who is highly motivated, ready, and open to learn, lead, and collaborate with organizations, communities, systems, and policymakers to build a Culture of Health in our nation. Our leaders come from the technology, education, housing, transportation, social sector, business, the arts, and countless other disciplines.

The Culture of Health Leaders curriculum and experience is designed to equip and support leaders through a process that helps them achieve mastery of self, relationships, environment, and change. By the end of the three years, leaders will apply the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion to create sustainable change in their communities, organizations, or systems

03/07/2019

Annual

Clinical Trial

Training

Field Experience

Postdoc

International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA)(K01)

Provides support and protected time (3-5 years) to advanced postdoc U.S. research scientists and recently-appointed U.S. junior faculty (applicants must be at least 2 years post PhD conferral) for an intensive, mentored research career development experience in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC) leading to an independently-funded research career focused on global health. Open to postdoct research scientists and junior faculty from any health-related discipline who propose career development activities and a research project that is relevant to the health priorities of the LMIC under the mentorship of LMIC and U.S. mentors.        

This FOA is designed specifically for applicants proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or a separate ancillary study to an existing trial, as part of their research and career development.   

03/07/2019

Annual

Research

Training

Field Experience

International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) (K01)

Provides support and protected time (3-5 years) to advanced postdoc U.S. research scientists and recently-appointed U.S. junior faculty (applicants must be at least 2 years post PhD conferral) for an intensive, mentored research career development experience in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC) leading to an independently-funded research career focused on global health. Open to postdoct research scientists and junior faculty from any health-related discipline who propose career development activities and a research project that is relevant to the health priorities of the LMIC under the mentorship of LMIC and U.S. mentors.   

This FOA is designed specifically for applicants proposing research that does not involve leading an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or an ancillary study to a clinical trial. 

Interprofessional health

Training

Team-based program

RWJF's Clinical Scholars is a three-year national leadership development program that offers interprofessional teams of health professionals (spanning a wide range of disciplines) the opportunity to build and develop unique skills to lead teams, working with and across communities and organizations to build a Culture of Health. More often than not, health professional education and training does not provide the tools, knowledge, and skills they need to lead transformative change. Clinical Scholars is designed to address that gap by offering health professionals the training to:

• Prepare to lead transformative change focused on health equity.
• Realize their unique role as both professionals and trusted members of communities.
• Cooperatively work across disciplines and professions to tackle problems that emerge from complex systems in communities—problems that jeopardize the achieving of a Culture of Health. These are society’s “wicked problems.”

Training

Research

Leadership development

This call seeks teams of researchers and community members who are committed to working together to produce community-relevant, action-oriented research to improve health and well-being. The applicant organization (the one group that will accept and distribute RWJF funds) will be represented by the team members listed on its application.

The broad goal of the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program is to produce diverse interdisciplinary leaders who conduct and apply high-quality, community-engaged, action-oriented, equity-focused health research in order to drive improvements in the health of communities. Another central goal of the IRL program is to foster and support new interdisciplinary, action-oriented research collaborations that will help build the evidence base for effective community interventions to improve health for all.

Accordingly, the program will recruit and select applicants represented by teams of three people (“IRL team”): two mid-career researchers and one community member to become IRL program fellows. IRL teams will be the grantees in this program and join together as a diverse cohort of fellows that will participate in a three-year program. During this time, fellows will receive: leadership training; opportunities to learn and apply cutting-edge research methods; expert mentoring; networking opportunities; and, both fellowship and research funds.

With these resources, IRL fellows will be better equipped to effect change and become the next generation of leaders in population health and health equity research.

04/01/2019

Annual (April and October)

Global Child

Maternal Health

Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Bangladesh, India, Nepal

Child Health

The Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine was established in 1980 to provide financial support to practically oriented research and development in acute medicine. In recent years there has also been an added focus on projects related to saving lives at birth in low-resource settings.

The support will be focused on practically oriented projects helping achieve the UN Sustainability Goal no 3 (that in 2015 replaced the previous MDGs 4 and 5), aiming at

• Reducing infant and child mortality by 2/3 from 2010 to 2030
• Reducing maternal deaths by 2/3 from 2010 to 2030

The Board particularly welcomes applications relating to:

• Innovative approaches to more efficient education and implementation
• Collaborative initiatives, such as the Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive and Survive & Thrive Global Development Alliances
• Projects in selected focus countries; Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Bangladesh, India, Nepal

05/15/2019 Concept Papers Due

Semi-Annual (May 15 and November 15)

Global Child

Child Health

Nutrition

Developmental Outcomes

The Foundation’s mission focuses on infants and young children. Accordingly, priority is given to projects that improve the nutrition, care and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age.

The Foundation is particularly interested in fresh approaches to solving common, everyday problems or emerging issues within our defined focus area. Projects should focus on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve the health, nutrition and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. The board is particularly looking for practical solutions that can be easily and rapidly implemented on a broad scale with a predictable time frame to clinical application.

LOI: 6/26/2019

Application: 7/25/2019

Training 

Partners 

Infectious Diseases

Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program and  Trainees must be from the LMIC with support letters from US-based mentors.  

LOI: 6/26/2019

Application: 7/25/2019

Training 

Partners 

Infectious Diseases

Innovation

The goal of the Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal funding opportunity is to explore; to look into the future and put health first as we design for changes in how we live, learn, work and play; to wade into uncharted territory in order to better understand what new trends, opportunities and breakthrough ideas can enable everyone in America to live the healthiest life possible.

While improving the status quo is vital to the health and well-being of millions of Americans now, the Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal opportunity reaches beyond incremental changes to explore the ideas and trends that will influence the trajectory and future of health. Ultimately, we support work that will help us learn what a Culture of Health can look like—and how we can get there. 

Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, funds research that expands the evidence base needed to build a Culture of Health. Our mission is to support rigorously designed quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research that yields convincing findings regarding the population health, well-being, and equity impacts of specific policies, programs and partnerships. We are especially interested in research examining the health impacts of programmatic or policy interventions that address factors outside the domain of health care services or public health practice.

There is not an explicit range for allowable budget requests. You should request the amount of funding you will need to complete your proposed research project – including both direct and indirect costs for the entire duration of your study. Grant periods may be for durations of up to 36 months.

Sustainability

One Health

Climate Change

Sustainable Development-US, China, and Western Balkans;

Advancing health and low-carbon development in China  

Rockefeller Brothers Fund  

The Sustainable Development program maintains a significant focus on the United States in light of its disproportionate impact on the global economy, politics, and the environment. The program’s work is also advanced in collaboration with the Fund’s “pivotal place” programs—New York City, China, and the Western Balkans. Pivotal place programs support work in specific countries or regions to build the knowledge, policies, organizational capacity, and leadership needed to advance sustainable development in locally appropriate ways.

Goal: Advance Solutions to Climate Change

Strategies:

Building public and policymaker understanding and support for a range of actions to address the threat of climate change.

Supporting implementation efforts to build a clean energy economy at the federal, state, and local levels.

Supporting efforts to reduce reliance on carbon-intensive energy sources.

Supporting targeted efforts to advance international progress on climate change.

Continuous Submission

Note: While they do not accept unsolicited proposals and don’t issue open calls, they do accept letters of inquiry (in their parlance, “new ideas and perspectives”) sent to climatesolutions@macfound.org

Climate change

Sustainability

Macarthur Foundation Climate Strategy

MacArthur Foundation

Innovation

Health Culture

The goal of the Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal funding opportunity is to explore; to look into the future and put health first as we design for changes in how we live, learn, work and play; to wade into uncharted territory in order to better understand what new trends, opportunities and breakthrough ideas can enable everyone in America to live the healthiest life possible.

While improving the status quo is vital to the health and well-being of millions of Americans now, the Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal opportunity reaches beyond incremental changes to explore the ideas and trends that will influence the trajectory and future of health. Ultimately, we support work that will help us learn what a Culture of Health can look like—and how we can get there.

Cross-disciplinary proposals are welcome!

Health Education

Underserved Populations

Board Grants

Reproductive Health

Population Growth

The Global subprogram of Population and Reproductive Health Program funds innovative work that addresses population growth and promotes positive reproductive health. The program is committed to promoting reproductive health and rights, with a focus on high quality information and services. 

Do not have the flexibility to fund many new grantees but interested grantseekers may submit an email inquiry.

Environment

Climate Change

Energy

The Hewlett Foundation's Environment Program makes grants to protect people and places threatened by a warming planet by addressing climate change globally, expanding clean energy, and conserving the North American West.

Humanitarian Research

Innovation

Humanitarian Aid

The challenge consists of developing innovative solutions for the delivery of humanitarian aid based on frugal application of advanced technologies.

The European Union and its Member States are major humanitarian donors. Humanitarian crises and disasters have increased in number, complexity and severity over the last 25 years. Given the scale of today’s crises and disasters, funding to cover humanitarian needs cannot keep up. The humanitarian system is being challenged to do more, for more people, and at greater cost. Cooperation between international organisations and NGOs responding to crises, end-users and local actors, research and scientific communities and the private sector is crucial in this respect. Introducing innovative solutions for the delivery of humanitarian aid could help enhance the humanitarian response, which is particularly important for those in a most vulnerable situation.

Solutions should be developed through a frugal innovation approach, and should be novel and based on advanced technologies and services, demonstrating the added value and potential of one or more advanced technologies (not only limited to Information and Communication Technology). Tested and proven in humanitarian aid delivery, these solutions should be safe, scalable, resource-sustainable, replicable and usable in other contexts.

Innovative solutions should be inclusive, i.e. co-created and developed by different stakeholders with local actors, and accessible to a large number of people in a given context of humanitarian aid delivery settings.

Innovation

Development

Technology

Innovation

Technology

Education

Environmental Health

Economic Development

Energy

Literacy

The Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project™ (the “competition”) seeks to identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to address critical social issues around the world. Project proposals must demonstrate significant advancement in the field of wireless-related technology applied to social benefit use. The competition is open to projects from universities and nonprofit organizations based in the United States. Although organizations must be based in the United States, projects may operate and help people outside of the United States.

Applicants must demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach that uses an innovation in wireless-related technology to address a critical global issue in one or more of the following areas:

Social Issue Areas: Access to communication, Education, Economic development, Environmental Health

Technical Issue Areas: Connectivity, Energy, Language or Literacy hurdles, Ease of use

Sustainable Transportation

Supply Chain

Disaster Relief

Education

Global Entrepreneurship

FedEx will invest more than $200 million in more than 200 communities by 2020 to create opportunities and deliver positive change around the world through FedEx Cares, its new global giving platform. FedEx Cares will focus on the following five pillars of strategic investment:

Delivering for Good - Using the company’s global network to deliver resources where they are needed most in times of disaster and for special shipments.

Sustainable Transportation - Developing solutions that connect the world responsibly and resourcefully.

Employment Pathways - Leveraging its global reach to provide pathways to success for teens and young adults in underserved populations.

Road Safety - Applying its expertise and global reach in road safety to protect pedestrians and make roads safer.

Global Entrepreneurship - Advancing women and minority-owned small businesses and continuing to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs, helping them access new markets and grow.

Global Warming

Climate Change

Clean Energy

Sub-Saharan Africa

Policies 

Poverty

Sustainable Development

Infectious Disease

India

United States

South Asia

Vaccines

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites applications for exploratory and high-risk research projects that fall within the NIMH mission by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methods, measures, models, or strategies, or to the generation of pilot or feasibility data. The preliminary work from these studies could lead to a major impact on biomedical, behavioral, or clinical mental health research, or on the delivery of mental health care. This program will use the NIH Exploratory/Developmental (R21) grant mechanism.

Antibiotic Resistant Surveillance

Food

Antimicrobial Resistance

Food

Capacity Building

Nutrition

Food

Education

Health Promotion

Racial and Ethnic Minority

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Interventions

Health Promotion

Racial and Ethnic Minority

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Interventions

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) invites applications that propose to stimulate and expand research in the health of minority men. Specifically, this initiative is intended to: 1) enhance our understanding of the numerous factors (e.g., sociodemographic, community, societal, personal) influencing the health promoting behaviors of racial and ethnic minority males across the life cycle, and 2) encourage applications focusing on the development and testing of culturally and linguistically appropriate health-promoting interventions designed to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse males age 18 and older. This FOA will use the NIH R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant award mechanism.



Health Behavior

Child Health

Adolescent Health

Neonatal Health

Pediatric Health

Resuscitation

Child Health

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) invites applications for research on a wide range of topics related to neonatal and pediatric resuscitation. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: fetal-neonatal transitional cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology, optimizing steps of resuscitation, management of third stage of labor and its effect on the fetus, resuscitation of children with malformations, effect of resuscitation on long-term outcomes and post-resuscitation practices.  Applications can include epidemiological studies, studies utilizing fetal-neonatal animal models, computer or other information-technology-based simulations or study designs, clinical observational studies, analyses of pre-existing national or regional datasets, opportunistic studies, prospective randomized controlled trials, or any combinations thereof.  It is anticipated that the results from well-conducted studies will enable translation of knowledge into evidence-based resuscitation practices ensuring a optimal short- and long-term outcomes for all newborn infants and children. This FOA will use the NIH Research Project (R01) award mechanism.

Neonatal Health

Child Health

Pediatric Health

Resuscitation

Deadline passed for 2018 (09/26/2018)

Nutrition

Food Security

Water Security

Climate Change

Public Health

Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems  (INFEWS)

NSF

$750K-$2.5 m

The INFEWS program seeks to support research that conceptualizes natural systems for food, energy, and water (FEW) systems broadly and inclusively, incorporating social and behavioral processes (such as decision making and governance), physical processes (such as built infrastructure and new technologies for more efficient resource utilization), natural processes (such as biogeochemical and hydrologic cycles), biological processes (such as agroecosystem structure and productivity), and cyber-components (such as sensing, networking, computation and visualization for decision-making and assessment).  Investigations of these complex systems may produce discoveries that cannot emerge from research on food or energy or water systems alone.  It is the synergy among these components in the context of sustainability that will open innovative science and engineering pathways to produce new knowledge, novel technologies, and innovative predictive capabilities.

The overarching goal of the INFEWS program is to catalyze well-integrated, convergent research to transform understanding of the FEW Nexus as integrated social, engineering, physical, and natural systems in order to improve system function and management, address system stress, increase resilience, and ensure sustainability. 

Child Health

Refugee Health

Innovations in Children's Health and Wellbeing in Western & Central New York

The Health Foundation for Western and Central New York works toward the goal that all young children impacted by poverty are physically, socially and emotionally healthy as they enter kindergarten.

The Health Foundation embraces a comprehensive approach to ensuring children under five have a healthy start.  Through this funding opportunity, the Health Foundation looks to support up to 15 projects that hold promise for improving health outcomes for children impacted by poverty, under age five, by working with children to support their physical, social and/or emotional health. Up to 15 grants with a maximum amount of $25,000 will be awarded, with a project period of 12 to 18 months. This opportunity is open to non-profit and public sector organizations in both western and central New York. 

AMR Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

Health Behavior

Child Health

Adolescent Health

Exposome

Genome

Women's Health

Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Award

Social Entrepreneurship

WaSH

Technology

Innovation

Biotherapeutics

Microbial

Innovation

Gates Grand Challenges

Phase 1: $100K; Phase 2: up to $1 million USD

Vaccination

Innoculation

Child Health

Global Child

Gates Grand Challenges

Phase 1: $100K; Phase 2: up to $1 million USD

WaSH

Technology

Digital

Innovation

Behavior Change

Access

Gates Grand Challenges

Phase 1: $100K; Phase 2: up to $1 million USD

We seek digital technology-based solutions that promote access to essential resources and services (clean water, sanitation) and can make a difference in reducing morbidity and mortality to promote healthy, safe, and productive lives. Ideal solutions may target individuals, families, communities, urban planners, service providers, or WASH/ food infrastructure, networks, and systems. 

Solutions may include but are not limited to: services, models, or tools intended to improve overall access to WASH services and that apply a deeper understanding of our users' (customers/providers) needs when designing programs, services, and products/interventions.  

We seek solutions that are interactive, contextual, scalable, and relevant to WASH systems strengthening. 

We are specifically interested in work targeting: clean drinking water, household sanitation and hygiene, and urban pollution.

Vaccination

Innoculation

Global Child

Child Health

Gates Grand Challenges

Phase 1: $100K; Phase 2: up to $1 million USD

Within this call to increase demand for vaccination services, and thus increase the number of children vaccinated globally, we are looking for innovative ideas in the following specific areas (please specify whether your concept applies to the first, or second challenge, or both):

 (1) Novel approaches for providing practical knowledge about vaccines and vaccination services to caregivers, or 

(2) Novel ideas for improving the convenience and/or caregiver seeking of vaccination services. 

(Please do not submit proposals based on SMS reminders given their current emphasis/on-going support in operational research.)

Food security

Policy

Agriculture

Smallholder Farming

New Approaches--Strategic Prioritization of Agricultural Development Policies

Gates Grand Challenges

Phase 1: $100K; Phase 2: up to $1 million USD

We seek new approaches for the prioritization of agricultural development policies and long-term strategic planning. Proposals must closely align with the goals of the Gates Foundation's Agricultural Development team. Although proposed solutions may be generated from ideas and contexts outside of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), all solutions must be relevant, transferrable, and applicable to Nigeria, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. These approaches could include one or more of the following:

Building a more robust approach to the challenge of policy prioritization using - but not limited to - modeling, e.g., creating a new "package" or "blend" of complementary practices that maximizes current tools to expand their use in data-scarce SSA contexts

Improving how modeling is currently done, including new innovations around the cost-benefit analysis element of modeling

Exploring alternative analytical approaches to the policy prioritization challenge outside of modeling altogether.

We will not consider funding:

Literature reviews

Models or approaches that only offer broad, non-specific recommendations

Methods or approaches that are not likely to be replicable or successful under developing country conditions

Traditional policy modeling approaches

Theoretical research

Ideas for which a relevant indicator of success cannot be demonstrated within the scope of the GCE Phase 1 award ($100K over 18 months)

Deadline passed for 2018  (11/14/2018, 11:30 a.m.) 

Food Security

Agriculture

Smallholder Farming

Tools and Technologies for Broad-Scale Pest and Disease Surveillance of Crop Plants in Low-Income Countries 

Gates Grand Challenges

AMR Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases  (EEID)

NSF

$13m divided into 9 awards

The EEID program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological principles and processes that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of transmission among humans, non-human animals, and/or plants. 

Child Health

Refugee Health

Nutrition

Technology

Built Environment

AdvancingCities

The AdvancingCities Challenge will make investments of up to $3 million in cities to support creative, collaborative and sustainable solutions that address cross-cutting challenges to help more people benefit from a growing economy.

The AdvancingCities Challenge provides local leaders with a broad scope to define the problem statement most relevant to their communities. Overall, we are looking for proposals that address macro-level challenges and opportunities including: - Persistent income and wealth inequality, particularly by race and gender; - Growing financial and employment insecurity of vulnerable populations; - Increasing physical and spatial disconnection from systems and services vital for well-being (health care, clean and safe environment, etc.) and economic opportunity (employment, education, child care, etc.) - Economic trends – whether it is rapid growth or stagnation – that exacerbate financial and economic disparities.

Team Science

Science of Science

Partnership Development

The goals of the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program are to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations.  The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts.  

The program seeks to foster high-impact science and engineering by providing opportunities to create new collaborations and new combinations of resources and ideas among linked global networks. This solicitation invites proposals for the creation of international networks of networks in research areas aligned either with one of the NSF Big Ideas or a community-identified scientific challenge with international dimensions.  

AccelNet awards are meant to support the connections among research networks, rather than supporting fundamental research as the primary activity.  Each network of networks is expected to engage in innovative collaborative activities that promote synergy of efforts across the networks and provide professional development for students, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career researchers. There are two proposal categories covered by this solicitation:  Catalytic and Full-Scale Implementation.