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Funding news for global health researchers May 4, 2020

On behalf of the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the following funding opportunities, notices and announcements may be of interest to those working in the field of global health research. Updates are typically distributed once a week.

Top Funding News

Important funding and news from NIH and others.

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) information for NIH grant applicants and grant recipients, including NIH funding opportunities specific to COVID-19 from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER)
• Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-20-177) and (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-20-178) from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis beginning April 30, 2020.
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Data Driven Research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21) (NOT-LM-20-011)
  Applies to June 16, 2020 due date only.
• Operating Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
  Objectives include enhancing local, national and/or international collaborative efforts, including in LMICs, to mitigate the rapid spread of COVID-19 and related negative consequences. The research team must include researchers based in Canada and in LMICs.
  Application deadline: May 11, 2020
• Coronavirus news, funding and resources for global health researchers compiled by Fogarty

Funding Opportunities

NIH funding opportunities focusing on global health and foreign collaboration.

• U.S.-India Collaborative Environmental Health Research Program (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-ES-20-010)
  from NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  NIEHS and the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) are interested in supporting collaborative research and research training through joint U.S.-India partnerships that address or seek to understand how exposures to toxic environmental insults alter biologic processes and are linked to disease initiation, progression, or morbidity.
  Application Receipt Date: October 15, 2020

NIH Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs) that may be of interest to global health researchers.

• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Heart, lung, blood and sleep focused ancillary studies to large ongoing clinical trials (NOT-HL-20-755)

Training for researchers from NIH.

• Webinars for the NIGMS Training Community
  A series of 1-hour webinars scheduled throughout May 2020 for students, postdocs and faculty on topics including infectious disease modeling research and the MIDAS network; computational biology and biomedical data science; and culturally aware practices for virtual mentoring, teaching and learning.

Funding News

NIH funding news that may be relevant to global health researchers.

• Request for Information: Soliciting Input for the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health’s New Strategic Plan (NOT-AT-20-013)
• Request for Information (RFI): Guidance on Current Clinical Experience in Suicide Prevention in Primary Care Settings (NOT-MH-20-046)

Upcoming Deadlines

• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowships
  Application deadline for Japanese Postdoctoral Fellowships at NIH: May 29, 2020
  Application deadline for short-term U.S. Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japan: October 1, 2020

• International Bioethics Training
  Application deadline: June 4, 2020

• Strengthening Institutional Capacity to Conduct Global Cancer Research in LMICs
  Application deadline: July 24, 2020

• HIV Research Training Program for LMIC Institutions
  Application deadline: August 20, 2020

• Mobile Health: Technology and Outcomes in LMICs
  Application deadline: September 24, 2020
  AIDS application deadline: December 3, 2020

• Global Infectious Disease Research Training
  Application deadline: October 28, 2020

• Emerging Global Leader Award
  Application deadline: November 4, 2020

• Global Brain Disorders Research
  Application deadline: November 6, 2020

• Reducing Stigma to Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care in LMICs
  Application deadline: November 12, 2020

• Upcoming deadlines for all Fogarty funding opportunities