UKRI GCRF/Newton Fund Agile Response call	Global Effort on COVID-19 (GECO) Health Research call
Full details:	https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/ukri-gcrf-newton-fund-agile-response-call-to-address-covid-19/		https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/global-effort-on-covid-19-geco-health-research-call-specification/24832#Eligibility
Funding agencies		UK Department for BEIS’s GCRF and Newton Fund through UKRI	UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and UKRI
Proposal deadline		No deadline	Round 1: 22 June 2020 Round 2: 10 August 2020 Round 3: 28 September 2020
Eligibility à implication for PIs from developing countries		§ Researchers in developing countries must be employed by an organisation that led or has led and held UKRI grants in order to lead the proposals. § If not, researchers from developing countries need to partner with UK-based collaborators.	Any researchers employed by legally registered higher education institutions and not-for-profit research institutions in developing countries are eligible to lead the proposals.
Scope		§ New research or innovation with a clear pathway to impact on policy or practice that has the potential (within the period of the award) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, response to, and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country context. § Supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential for impact in developing countries. § Gathers critical data and resources quickly for future research use.	Based on the WHO COVID-19 Global Research Roadmap priorities   §  Epidemiology §  Clinical management §  Infection prevention and control §  Social Sciences and Humanities in the Outbreak Response
Project length		Up to 18 months	Up to 18 months
Award range		No specific budget	Up to £1 million