Fogarty International Center invites applications for up to three years of support for the creation of new, multidisciplinary programmes that will foster Global Health research and teaching within and between institutions, to be called Framework Programs for Global Health.

The purpose of this award is to catalyse and support the efforts of universities and other institutions with significant activities in global health that are ready to commit to shaping an integrated programme in this area.

For the purposes of this award, "global health activities" are defined as research, teaching, clinical care, prevention, and outreach activities directed towards addressing health concerns that contribute a significant burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries and are of general concern to the international health community.

United States (US) awards in global health are expected to involve partnerships and interactions with institutions in the affected countries. Examples of global health areas include HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, respiratory and diarrhoeal diseases, as well as the significant burdens of mental illness and cardiovascular disease in developing countries, among many others.

The goals of these programmes will be to encourage greater involvement of NIH-funded (National Institutes of Health - United States) researchers in global health, to facilitate greater collaboration and interactions among global health research and training programmes at domestic and foreign sites, to bring new participants into the global health discussion, and to engage the next generation of scientists and health workers to choose careers in global health. Two core activities will be to create an administrative framework to bring multiple schools (engineering, business, chemistry, biology, communication, public health, medicine, environmental studies, and others) together on the topic of global health and to develop multidisciplinary global health curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Each programme should leverage and enhance currently funded global health projects at the institution, supported by NIH and other sponsors, as well as encourage new training opportunities, collaborations and research areas.

Estimated Total Programme Funding

USD $1,000,000.00

Sponsors

National Institutes of Health

Fogarty International Center

Division of International Training and Research

Eligible Institutions

• Non-profit organisations
• Public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, or research institutions that can link to educations institutions
• Foreign Institutions
• Domestic Institutions

The eligibility criteria for domestic and foreign institutions differ.

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