Fogarty International Center

Fogarty International Center

On behalf of the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the following funding opportunities, notices and announcements may be of interest to those working in the field of global health research. Updates are typically distributed once a week.

Top Funding News Important funding and news from NIH and others. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) information for NIH grant applicants and grant recipients, including NIH funding opportunities specific to COVID-19 from the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) Emergency Awards: Rapid Investigation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-20-177) and (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-20-178) from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis beginning April 30, 2020. Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Data Driven Research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (R21) (NOT-LM-20-011) Applies to June 16, 2020 due date only. Operating Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Objectives include enhancing local, national and/or international collaborative efforts, including in LMICs, to mitigate the rapid spread of COVID-19 and related negative consequences. The research team must include researchers based in Canada and in LMICs. Application deadline: May 11, 2020 Coronavirus news, funding and resources for global health researchers complied by Fogarty Funding Opportunities NIH funding opportunities focusing on global health and foreign collaboration. U.S.-India Collaborative Environmental Health Research Program (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-ES-20-010) from NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIEHS and the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) are interested in supporting collaborative research and research training through joint U.S.-India partnerships that address or seek to understand how exposures to toxic environmental insults alter biologic processes and are linked to disease initiation, progression, or morbidity. Application Receipt Date: October 15, 2020 NIH Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs) that may be of interest to global health researchers. Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Heart, lung, blood and sleep focused ancillary studies to large ongoing clinical trials (NOT-HL-20-755) Training for researchers from NIH. Webinars for the NIGMS Training Community A series of 1-hour webinars scheduled throughout May 2020 for students, postdocs and faculty on topics including infectious disease modeling research and the MIDAS network; computational biology and biomedical data science; and culturally aware practices for virtual mentoring, teaching and learning.