NIHR Global Health Research Groups - Call 5

The NIHR Global Health Research Groups awards (Groups) support the development of new partnerships between researchers from the UK and from ODA eligible countries. These partnerships may be for experienced UK researchers pivoting to work globally for the first time or for expanding existing partnerships into new themes and geographies.

Aims of the Global Health Research Group Programme

Building on the NIHR Global Health Research operating principles, the strategic aims of the Global Health Research Groups programme are to:

build global research capacity by supporting specialist UK researchers to pivot to global health through new equitable and diverse UK-LMIC partnerships
support UK-LMIC partnerships seeking to scale-up or expand existing research programmes into new health areas and/or geographies
deliver programmes of high quality applied global health research targeted at the needsofpeopleinLMICs, including for example:
scoping studies
needs analyses
economic and/or health system analyses
pilot studies and potentially trials
generate robust new scientific evidence that will improve health outcomes for people in low resource settings through improving practice and informing policy
create pathways to develop research leaders of the future
strengthen research management capability and institutional sustainability in partner countries