Call for Expressions of Interest: Africa Health Collaborative Research Fund 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 19, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Health Collaborative Research Fund 2025. The key intention of the Health Collaborative Research Fund 2025 is to encourage and supply preliminary help for the event/enlargement of excessive-high quality analysis actions for Early Career Researchers (ECR) enabling principal investigators to subsequently apply for funding to help the subsequent section of their joint analysis that may lead to larger affect.

The theme for this yr’s grant is Health Systems Strengthening in Primary Health Care (Including public well being, neighborhood well being, and associated areas) in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Africa Health Collaborative (Health Collaborative) is a multistakeholder partnership devoted to making ready various younger folks for the significant work of remodeling well being and properly-being in Africa, by way of contextually applicable and sustainable main healthcare techniques. The Health Collaborative strategically leverages larger training establishments as hubs of information alternate, neighborhood engagement, and cross-sector partnerships for innovation and affect.

Funding

• Bilateral initiatives are eligible to obtain as much as $22,000 USD – with every establishment awarding as much as $11,000 USD to investigators at their home establishment.  (Multilateral proposals might be scaled as much as $11,000 USD per establishment).

Eligibility

• All proposals have to be led by an Early Career Researcher from a Health Collaborative member establishment and will be bilateral (2 ECRs between two Health Collaborative member companions) or multilateral (three ECRs between three or extra member companions).
• Proposals should additionally embody participation of masters, doctoral or publish-doctoral trainees. Eligible candidates could solely lead one application.
• If you wouldn’t have a co-applicant from a Health Collaborative member establishment, your application might be shared publicly in a repository for you to establish potential co-applicant(s) to apply for the Fund.
• External collaborators (together with researchers from different universities internationally, or these working in non-tutorial contexts similar to neighborhood organizations, authorities, NGOs) can’t lead an application however will be concerned within the proposed actions, the place the profit of their involvement to the collaboration is justified within the proposal.

Evaluation Criteria

A joint peer overview committee with representatives from all member establishments will assess every proposal in accordance with its tutorial advantage utilizing the next standards:

• Project design and rationale  
• Collaborator complementarity  
• Potential translational affect and demonstrability of affect  
• Capacity for future collaboration/funding  
• Relevance and worth of analysis challenge to Africa Health Collaborative actions  

Application

Submit Expression of Interest

For extra info, go to Africa Health Collaborative Research Fund.