The Department of Health has announced that 33 research units and
groups will receive over £120 million funding for global health
research. It comes after an open research competition led by the
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Following the
success of this initial competition, a call for a second round of
applications has also been launched today, funded by £40 million
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The Department of Health has announced that 33 research
units and groups will receive over £120 million funding for
global health research. It comes after an open research
competition led by the National Institute for Health
Research (NIHR).
Following the success of this initial competition, a call
for a second round of applications has also been launched
today, funded by £40 million from the Department of
Health Official Developmental Assistance (ODA) budget.
The aim of this research is to improve the health of
patients and public in low and middle-income countries.
Such research is vital to protect the UK at home. Disease
knows no borders, and we are continually under threat
from poorly understood infections and antimicrobial
resistance.
Good health is a global endeavour and the UK is a leader
in this area of research and innovation.
The selected 33 successful NIHR global
health research units and groups include:
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in collaboration
with India, The Phillipines, Colombia and Nigeria -
to provide global surveillance data for bacterial
pathogens through whole genome sequencing, to inform
public health policy, and providing resourcing and
training for local capacity
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University of Dundee with India - a large scale
clinical partnership between Scotland and India to
combat diabetes through genetic epidemiology and
pharmacogenetics
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Swansea University with Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Ethiopia, Nepal, Senegal, Ghana, India, Syria, West
Bank - to develop effective and deliverable solutions
to improve services and outcomes for patients in the
treatment and prevention of burn injuries in conflict
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University College London with Malawi, Mali, Gambia,
Kenya, West Bank and South Africa - Mucosal Pathogens
Research Unit addressing pneumonia, meningitis and
neonatal sepsis, addressing limitations in the
long-term effectiveness of existing vaccines
Health Minister Lord O’Shaughnessy said:
This funding allows our universities to strengthen
their research and expertise as leaders in global
health research.
The UK will continue to be at the forefront of health
knowledge, and it is only right that we support other
nations as they improve care for patients and public.
A full list of successful projects from the first wave of
funding are shown in the table below.
Details about the new call for applications
For the second wave of funding, awards of up to £2
million over 3 years are available for additional global
health research groups.
The NIHR are
keen to see proposals from world-leading academic groups
in the UK that wish to expand into the field of global
health working in partnership with researchers in
developing countries. Applications close 20 October 2017.
For more information please see the NIHR website
Full list of successful projects from first wave of funding
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Title
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Host institution
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Brief summary of work
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Tackling Infections to
Benefit Africa, The University of Edinburgh
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The University of Edinburgh
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Our vision is to harness the combined resources of
the University of Edinburgh and 9 African partners
to reduce the burden of infectious diseases by
strengthening health systems
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Neglected Tropical
Diseases, BSMS
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University of Sussex
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A Sussex-based partnership that undertakes world
class interdisciplinary research on neglected
tropical diseases in African countries and rapidly
translates this research into benefits for
patients, families and communities
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Diabetes and Cardiovascular
Disease in South Asians, Imperial College London
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Imperial College of Science, Technology and
Medicine
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We will translate scientific discoveries and
technological innovations into sustainable
improvements in healthcare, to deliver improved
prevention and better treatment of both diabetes
and heart disease, amongst people from South Asia
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Health in Situations of
Fragility
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Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
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The unit identifies sources of resilience within
formal health systems and local community processes
to facilitate effective provision for health
priorities - particularly mental health and
non-communicable disease - in situations of
fragility
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, University
of Birmingham
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University of Birmingham
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The NIHR Unit
on Global Surgery will develop global surgical
research, relevant to low and middle-income
countries, by establishing sustainable
international research hubs and delivering practice
changing research for better patient outcomes
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit Action on Salt China (ASC),
Queen Mary University of London
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Queen Mary University of London
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ASC is a NIHR-funded
unit for salt reduction in China through research
and public health programmes led by the Wolfson
Institute, QMUL, UK and The George Institute China
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Genomic Surveillance of
Antimicrobial Resistance, Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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Establishing expertise and local research capacity
in the use of whole genome sequencing in low and
middle income countries to provide intelligent
global surveillance of microbial pathogens and
antimicrobial resistance
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Lung health and
Tuberculosis Research in Africa, Liverpool School
of Tropical Medicine
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Our NIHR unit
aims to improve the health of children and adults
in Africa through multi-disciplinary applied health
research on lung health and tuberculosis
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Health System Strengthening
in Sub-Saharan Africa, King’s College London
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King’s College London
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The King’s College London NIHR unit
on Health System Strengthening in Sub-Saharan
Africa will work across primary care, maternal and
surgical care platforms, developing, adapting and
evaluating health system strengthening
interventions to enhance the processes and outcomes
of evidence based care
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Diabetes Outcomes Research,
University of Dundee
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University of Dundee
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This unit is a large scale Scotland/India Clinical
Partnership using innovative big data and mobile
technologies to provide low cost personalized
medicine to combat ill health associated with
diabetes
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums,
The University of Warwick
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University of Warwick
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The NIHR unit
is focused improving the health and welfare of
people who live in slums across Africa and South
Asia
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Mucosal Pathogens (MPRU),
University College London
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University College London
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The MPRU is a UK and lower and middle-income
country (LMIC) partnership that aims to prevent
mucosal pathogens causing pneumonia, meningitis and
sepsis in young children
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NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health
(RESPIRE), The University of Edinburgh
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The University of Edinburgh
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The NIHR unit
on Global Respiratory Health will work to improve
respiratory outcomes from common respiratory
communicable and non-communicable disorders in
Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Pakistan
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NIHR global
health research groups
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Title
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Host institution
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Brief summary of work
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on African Snakebite
Research, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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This project will establish self-sustaining
regional hubs of snakebite expertise to support
national and regional authorities design and
implement systems to reduce snakebite deaths and
disability
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on prevention and management
of non-communicable diseases and HIV-infection in
Africa, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Our research group will evaluate integrated
prevention and management of chronic conditions in
Africa, focusing on HIV-infection, diabetes and
hypertension, and on research that is relevant for
policy and practice
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Improving Stroke Care,
University of Central Lancashire
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University of Central Lancashire
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Our multi professional research group brings
together researchers from the UK, India and
Australia with expertise and interest in the
addressing the Global Health Challenge of stroke
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Early Childhood
Development for Peacebuilding, Queen’s University
of Belfast
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The Queen’s University of Belfast
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This group supports the development and rigorous
evaluation of early childhood development
programmes to contribute to sustainable development
and peacebuilding in lower and middle income
countries affected by conflict
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Nepal Injury Research,
University of the West of England
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Bristol University of the West of England
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Preventing injuries, making communities safer and
improving injury outcomes in Nepal through
collaborative research, surveillance, innovation,
training, capacity building and policy development
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Neurotrauma, University of
Cambridge
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University of Cambridge / Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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The NIHR Group
on Global Neurotrauma is a multi-institutional
consortium of partners from LMICs and HICs with
a mission to advance global neurotrauma care and
research in order to save lives, reduce disability
and improve the quality of life for patients with
traumatic brain injury
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Global COPD in
Primary Care, University of Birmingham
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University of Birmingham
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Fostering research in primary care and the
community to improve the diagnosis, management and
prognosis of COPD patients
in low and middle income countries
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Social Policy and Health
Inequalities led by the University of Glasgow
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The University Court of the University of Glasgow
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We are working to improve population health in
Brazil by studying the social determinants of
health and to further our understanding of how
social policy may reduce health inequalities
globally
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Burn Trauma, Swansea
University
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Swansea University
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A unique collaboration between university and
international NGOthat will
work towards transforming the standard of burn care
and prevention in some of the poorest regions of
the world using a systems based approach backed by
implementation science
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on warfarin anticoagulation
in patients with cardiovascular disease in
Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Liverpool
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University of Liverpool
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Anticoagulation with warfarin is an important area
of unmet medical need. Our group aims to improve
anticoagulation by developing dosing algorithms,
and further improve anticoagulation quality by
using novel technological advances
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Global Surgical
Technologies, University of Leeds
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University of Leeds
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The NIHR Group
on Global Surgical Technologies will identify areas
of surgical need in India and Sierra Leone and
develop and evaluate new technological solutions
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on POsT Conflict Trauma;
PrOTeCT, Imperial College London
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Imperial College of Science, Technology and
Medicine
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As a result of this funding, the group will be
enabled to improve the health and wellbeing of
civilians afflicted by blast injuries,
significantly reduce the socio-economic burden of
explosive remnants of war in the developing world,
develop a research and innovation hub for
orthopaedic, trauma and biomaterials researchers,
engineers and clinicians and advance the UK’s
understanding of biomaterials and orthopaedic
technology
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Psychosis Outcomes: the
Warwick¬India-Canada (WIC) Network, The University
of Warwick
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University of Warwick
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The NIHR Group
on Psychosis Outcomes: Warwick-India-Canada (WIC)
Network is a group of international experts in
global mental health who aim improve outcomes of
psychotic disorders in India, harnessing the
potential of digital and mobile technologies
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Evidence to Policy pathway
to Immunisation in China (NIHREPIC),
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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We conduct applied vaccine research to help
decision makers in China build a vaccination
programme that ensures reliable, affordable,
equitable and uninterrupted supply of vaccines to
the Chinese population
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Stillbirth Prevention and
Management in Sub-Saharan Africa, The University of
Manchester
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The University of Manchester
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The University of Manchester, in partnership with
the Lugina Africa Midwives Research Network, will
undertake high quality research on the prevention
and management of stillbirth in sub-Saharan Africa
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Road Safety, University of
Southampton
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University of Southampton
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The goal of our NIHR Group
on Global Road Safety is to reduce the number and
severity of road accidents in Low-Middle Income
Countries through our underpinning philosophy of
local solutions for local problems
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NIHR Global
Health Group on Dementia Prevention and Enhanced
Care (DePEC), Newcastle University
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Newcastle University
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Dementia, a global health priority, has a
disproportionately large impact in low and middle
income countries (LMICs). In
the absence of a cure, and without a future risk
reduction strategy and efficient, feasible
post-diagnostic care, dementia will have a
devastating societal and economic effect
in LMICs. We
will bring together expertise in public health and
primary care with global epidemiological research
(large LMIC dementia research collaboration, 10/66
Study), to create a NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Dementia Prevention and
Enhanced Care (DePEC)
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Global Health Econometrics
and Economics (GHE2), University of York
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The University of York
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GHE2 will address the evidence gap in population-
and health system-level interventions by applying
and developing methods to (1) estimate their
average and distributional impact and (2) assess
their value-for-money
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on developing psycho-social
interventions for mental health care, Bart’s and
The London School of Medicine & Dentistry
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Barts & The London Queen Mary’s School of
Medicine & Dentistry
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In collaboration with partners in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda, our group
will develop psycho-social interventions for people
with severe mental illnesses, utilising existing
resources in communities
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NIHR Global
Health Research Group on Diet and Activity Research
at MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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MRC Epidemiology Unit
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The goal of the NIHR group
on Global Diet and Activity Research (GDAR) is to
understand the determinants of population levels of
diet and activity behaviour in low and middle
income countries and to evaluate population-level
interventions aimed at changing these behaviours in
order to reduce risk of non-communicable disease
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