Funding, News and Announcements

A call for proposals to the latest round of Grand Challenges Explorations has been issued by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  The Explorations program is aimed at the creation of innovative, unconventional global health and development solutions; proposals to the current round are sought in the following areas:

• Surveillance Tools, Diagnostics and an Artificial Diet to Support New Approaches to Vector Control.
• New Approaches for Addressing Outdoor/Residual Malaria Transmission
• New Ways to Reduce Pneumonia Fatalities through Timely, Effective Treatment of Children
• Enable Universal Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments to Create an Economic Ecosystem that Will Help Lift the Poorest Out of Poverty
• Explore New Ways to Measure Brain Development and Gestational Age
• New Ways of Working Together: Integrating Community-Based Interventions

Initial grants will be valued at US$100,000, with promising projects having the opportunity of additional second-phase funding of up to US$1 million.

Full details of this funding scheme, including guidelines and application forms, are available online at:  www.grandchallenges.org/explorations.
   
Any Dalhousie faculty member interested in this opportunity is asked to contact Jennifer Morawiecki, the International Research Facilitator (Jennifer.Morawiecki@dal.ca) for more information and support in preparing an application. 

Deadline: 12 November 2014, 3.30 PM