Funding, News and Announcements

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced three new Grand Challenges grant opportunities:

• Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development: focuses on how to effectively reach and empower the most vulnerable women and girls to improve health and development – including economic – outcomes as well as gender equality.
• Creating and Measuring Integrated Solutions for Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development: focuses on new measurement tools and new combinations of approaches to ensure all children thrive – that they not only survive, but also have the chance to live healthy productive lives.
• New Interventions for Global Health: focuses on innovative concepts for vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics with the potential to be translated into safe, effective, affordable, and widely utilized interventions to protect against the acquisition, progression, or transmission of infectious diseases, or to provide a cure for infectious diseases, in resource‐limited settings.

Applications for these three new challenges will be accepted beginning on November 4, 2015.

Note that funding for the first two challenges listed above will go to investigators in low- and middle-income countries, but Canadians may serve as project partners. The Gates Foundation encourages partnerships between investigators in developed and developing countries, especially where the opportunity exists to build on existing collaborations.

Full details of these three new calls are available at: http://grandchallenges.org/grant-opportunities.html
 
Any Dalhousie faculty member interested in any of these opportunities is asked to contact Jennifer Morawiecki, the International Research Facilitator (jennifer.morawiecki@dal.ca) for more information and support in preparing an application.

Deadline: 13 January 2015