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Funding news for global health researchers July 20, 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.

COVID-19 Grants and Funding News

Important news from NIH for grantees and grant applicants on the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

• Funding opportunities specific to COVID-19 from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER)

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) information for NIH grant applicants and grant recipients from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER)

• Coronavirus news, funding and resources for global health researchers compiled by Fogarty, with major revisions published July 15

Funding Opportunities

NIH funding opportunities focusing on global health and foreign collaboration.

• Reminder: NIH is launching Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa), an NIH Common Fund program, to explore how advances in data science applied in the African context can spur new health discoveries and catalyze innovation. Publication dates of NIH DS-I Africa Funding Opportunity Announcements are estimated for July 2020.

  Registration is open to participate in interactive components of the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform. The Platform will be open from July through November 2020 with several online events and networking tools available to participants.

  Register for the DS-I Africa Virtual Symposium Platform

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign organizations, foreign components of U.S. organizations and/or other foreign components may apply.

• NIDA Core "Center of Excellence" Grant Program (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-20-267)
  Application Receipt Date(s): September 25, 2020, September 27, 2021, September 26, 2022
• Integrative Research to Understand the Impact of Sex Differences on the Molecular Determinants of AD Risk and Responsiveness to Treatment (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-20-269)
  Application Receipt Date(s): November 10, 2020
• BRAIN Initiative: Tools for Germline Gene Editing in Marmosets (U01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-DA-21-006)
  Application Receipt Date(s): October 15, 2020 and October 14, 2021

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

• Notice of Special Interest: Epidemiology and Prevention in Alcohol Research (NOT-AA-20-017)
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Methods Development in Natural Products Research (SBIR/STTR) (NOT-AT-20-015)
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Stimulating Intervention Research to Reduce Cardiopulmonary Impacts of Particulate Matter in Air Pollution among High-Risk Populations (NOT-HL-20-788)

Information related to opportunities from other organizations focusing on global health and foreign collaboration.

• Generating evidence to strengthen intersectionality and gender research efforts in infectious disease prevention and control from TDR is open for individual or collaborative research proposals from LMIC institutions working on public health, gender and intersectionality research, implementation research, infectious disease prevention and control.
  Application deadline: August 17, 2020
• Sustaining Technical and Analytical Resources (STAR) is accepting applications for its open fellowship and internship positions in Uzbekistan, Cambodia, South Africa, Malawi, Chad and the US. STAR, a project of the Public Health Institute, is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
  Application due date: August 31, 2020

Funding News

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

• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42 Clinical Trial Optional) (NOT-ES-20-021) from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• Extramural Loan Repayment Program for:
  Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR) (NOT-OD-20-133)
  Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds (LRP-IDB) (NOT-OD-20-134)
  Contraception and Infertility Research (LRP-CIR) (NOT-OD-20-135)
  Pediatric Research (LRP-PR) (NOT-OD-20-136)
  Health Disparities Research (LRP-HDR) (NOT-OD-20-137)
  Note: Fogarty can be listed as a secondary institution on applications.
  More about the NIH Loan Repayment Programs.

Upcoming Deadlines

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

• International Bioethics Training
  UPDATED application deadline: August 4, 2020

• Global Infectious Disease Research Training
  D43 application deadline: August 14, 2020
  D71 application deadline: October 28, 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

• Tobacco Use and HIV in Low and Middle-Income Countries
  Application Receipt Date: September 24, 2020

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

• Fulbright-Fogarty Fellows in Public Health
  Application deadline: October 13, 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

• Chronic, Noncommunicable Diseases and Disorders Research Training (NCD-Lifespan)
  D43 application deadline: November 13, 2020

• Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Initiative (EEID)
  Application deadline: November 18, 2020

• Upcoming deadlines for all Fogarty funding opportunities