UK Medical Research Council Health Systems Research Initiative Call 7: Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries: Foundation Grants

UK Medical Research Council Health Systems Research Initiative Call 7: Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries: Foundation Grants

Category of Opportunity: 
Project

World-class and cutting-edge research that addresses key questions on strengthening and improving health systems in developing countries.
The programme’s aims are to fund methodologically rigorous, high-quality interdisciplinary research that will:

generate evidence on:
the structure and dynamics of health systems
how to strengthen and improve health systems for people living in LMICs through the delivery of evidence-based interventions or structural changes (for example strengthening the health workforce or drug supply)
provide evidence that is of direct relevance to decision makers and practitioners in the field, linking health systems with defined outcomes (e.g. health, confidence, financial protection)
demonstrate an appreciation of current theories and frameworks in health systems research
where focussed on a particular aspect of the health system, proposals must demonstrate how interventions relate to and affect wider elements of the system such as governance, financing, health workforce, information systems, service delivery, etc.

Foundation grants, which are smaller and shorter. Proposals can be either:

exploratory, for example, retrospective, diagnostic analyses looking into existing health systems, investigating the underlying causes beneath perceived problems or to explore possible health system innovations, under-researched areas, or creative approaches that have the potential to be developed further
to conduct pilot work to build the necessary knowledge and methodological base to support a future full proposal, this could include work to pilot an intervention, feasibility/preliminary work to conceptualise broader research questions on the health system.

Deadline: 
Date and time
Application Deadline: 
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 00:00