MRC: Partnership grants - applied global health research

23/02/2023

27/07/2024

The Medical Research Council invites outline applications for its partnership grants under the applied global health research programme. These support research that will benefit the health of vulnerable global populations. Cross-sector research that combines expertise to meet a global health challenge within a single proposal, such as urban planning, health policy, and non-communicable disease research, are encouraged. Partnership grants support novel partnerships between diverse groupings of researchers. Proposals of all sizes are accepted, including large research projects of approximately £2 million and small to medium-scale applications. Grants lasts for one to to five years.

Projects should develop practical solutions to global health challenges and inequities. This includes late-stage intervention development and testing, global health trials, implementation and scale-up research, health systems research, health economics, health policy research and research with a predominantly applied focus that does not fit within the remit of other MRC boards and panels. Health Economics; Health Systems in Developing Countries; Health Systems Policy; International Health; Non-Communicable Diseases; Public Health; Urban Planning & Policy.

The partnership must be led by a PI based at a research organisation that is eligible to apply in response mode. Applications are encouraged from overseas researchers based in LMICs, as well as UK researchers who are eligible to apply for MRC funding and working in equitable partnership with LMIC researchers. They must be based at an eligible research organisation. These include: HEIs; UKRI-approved independent research organisations or NHS bodies; public sector research establishments; MRC institutes; MRC units and partnership institutes including those in Gambia and Uganda; institutes and units funded by other research councils; universities or higher education institutions based in LMICs with degree-awarding powers recognised by the government in which the organisation is based; research focused institutes based in LMICs either funded by the government of the country in which the organisation is based or by a not-for-profit organisation; research focused not-for-profit organisations based in LMICs with dedicated research capacity.