Open Call: Global Health Research Professorship (Round 8)

Deadline Date: December 11, 2024

Donor Name: National Institute for Health and Care Research

Grant Size: More than $1 million

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The Global Health Research Professorship award is NIHR’s flagship career development award, open to all health, public health and social care research and methodology professions.

It aims to fund research leaders to promote effective translation of research and to strengthen research leadership at the highest academic levels.

The Global Health Research Professorship programme supports outstanding academics to work at professorial level. The award provides an extensive support package alongside the professorship, to include support posts, research costs and a leadership and development programme.

Scopes

• The award consists of a package to support a Professorship. This includes:
  • Academic support posts
  • Research running costs
  • A travel fund
  • Funding to support a sabbatical
  • Basic salary costs (plus indirect costs, for the host organisation, if applicable)
  • Institutional capacity strengthening

Funding Information

• Award funding: Up to £2 million over 5 years.

Eligible Activities

• Activities should be identified and developed in partnership with the LMIC host or partner institution and they may include:
  • Training and development for research support staff (for example, finance, HR, data managers, grant managers, project managers, technicians)
  • Establishing or strengthening institutional systems for coaching, mentoring and/or peer-mentorship.
  • Strengthening and sustaining support systems, such as IT and libraries

Eligibility Criteria

• Individual Eligibility:
  • To apply for a Global Health Research Professorship you must be:
    • An individual with an outstanding record of public health, health or care research including clinical and non-clinical researchers. 
    • On track to become a future global health research leader 
    • Based in the UK or in a LMIC
    • Nominated by your host institution.
• Institutional eligibility:
  • If your host organisation is in an LMIC
    • The institution must be able to provide appropriate academic support throughout the length of your Professorship such as: skills development, professional development activities, career development pathway and mentoring
    • The institution should be research active, and have examples of recent research awards and publications, and a track record of research funding
    • You may wish to include other LMIC partner organisations 
    • The research outputs must be of direct and primary relevance to the health challenges of LMICs
    • The institution must be a registered independent entity. LMIC-based academic Research Institutes that are affiliated with a UK or other High Income Country (HIC) HEI are eligible as the LMIC host, provided that the LMIC Research Institute is legally independent from the affiliated UK or HIC HEI.

For more information, visit NIHR.