Grand Challenges Explorations grant opportunities
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/about proposals for the following three challenges (application deadline is May 2, 2018):
* Innovations in Immunization Data Management, Use, and Improved Process Efficiency https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-immunization-data-management-use-and-improved-process-efficiency-round-21
* Affordable, Accessible, and Appealing: The Next Generation of Nutrition https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/affordable-accessible-and-appealing-next-generation-nutrition-round-21 (also see the blog https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2018/03/Looking-for-Bold-New-Partners-to-Join-the-Fight-Against-Malnutrition#.Ws7xoFjrtPb )
* Tools and Technologies for Broad-Scale Disease Surveillance of Crop Plants in Low-Income Countries https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/tools-and-technologies-broad-scale-disease-surveillance-crop-plants-low-income-countries
GCE grants have already been awarded to more than 1300 researchers in more than 65 countries. Initial grants are for USD $100,000 and successful projects are eligible to receive follow-on funding of up to USD $1 million. Proposals are solicited twice a year for an expanding set of global health and development challenges. Applications are only two pages, and no preliminary data is required. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any type of organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.
Grand Challenges grant opportunities
* Grand Challenges India: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-india-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial-resistance . Application deadline is May 25, 2018.
* Grand Challenges Explorations – Brazil: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-brazil-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial-resistance . Application deadline is May 28, 2018.
* Grand Challenges Africa: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-africa-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial-resistance . Application deadline is May 16, 2018.
* Grand Challenges South Africa: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-south-africa-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial . Application deadline is May 16, 2018.
* Grand Challenges: Campylobacter spp. Transmission Dynamics in Low- and Middle-Income Countries https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/campylobacter-spp-transmission-dynamics-low-and-middle-income-countries . Application deadline is May 2, 2018.
* Grand Challenges Explorations – Brazil: Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Brazil https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-explorations-brazil-data-science-approaches-improve-maternal-and-child . Application deadline is May 2, 2018.
* Misk Grand Challenges: Activating Global Citizenship: Building the Next Generation of Global Citizens for the Global Goals. https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/activating-global-citizenship-building-next-generation-global-citizens-global-goals Application deadline is May 2, 2018.
* Misk Grand Challenges: Reinventing Teaching and School Leadership: Preparing the Youth with the 21st Century Skills Needed for a Knowledge Economy. https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/reinventing-teaching-and-school-leadership-preparing-youth-21st-century-skills-needed Application deadline is May 2, 2018.
Additional global funder grant opportunities
* The African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering under the auspices of the Coalition of African Research & Innovation (CARI) to establish a post-doctoral training fellowship program, the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI)<http://www.aasciences.ac.ke/aesa/en/programmes/the-african-postdoctoral-training-initiative-/>. Training will be at the intramural laboratories of NIH. Application deadline is May 11, 2018.
* The Templeton World Charity Foundation announces Round 1 of its new Global Innovations for Character Development<https://www.globalcharacter.org/> initiative. Application deadline is June 15, 2018.
Blog series on innovation: Trevor Mundel, the Gates Foundation’s President of Global Health, recently published three new blogs in his series https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/news?f%5B0%5D=type%3Aexternal_article&f%5B1%5D=field_blog_series%3A41 on innovation: one on metabolic markers for gestational age assessment https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2017/12/INNOVATION-HOW-A-50YEAROLD-DROP-OF-BLOOD-HELPS-SOLVE-AN-URGENT-GLOBAL-HEALTH-CHALLENGE#.WqBINW1uZPZ , one on surveying nutrient levels in breastmilk https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2018/03/Understanding-Global-Differences-in-Human-Milk-Nutrients#.WqBIdW1uZPZ , and one on new technology to assess intestinal health in babies https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2018/02/Innovation-A-New-Lens-on-Child-Nutrition#.Wr6dyVjrtPa .
We look forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world on the open grant opportunities listed above. If you have a great idea, please apply. If you know someone else who has a great idea, please forward this message. And we invite you to explore an interactive world map of ideas funded<https://grandchallenges.org/#/map> to date across the global Grand Challenges network.
Thank you for your commitment to solving the world’s greatest health and development challenges.
The Grand Challenges Team
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