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 |
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 |