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VACCINE - Development of novel picornavirus virus-like particle vaccines The strategy of the Medical Research Council is to improve the progress of international health research worldwide. Vaccination has had an enormous impact on human and animal health and is therefore one of the most important and effective medical interventions. However, there are still many examples of diseases for which we do not have effective vaccines. Furthermore, much of our current vaccine production involves the production of disease-causing agents (e.g. viruses) which are subsequently inactivated during the production process.  In their simplest terms, viruses can be thought of as protein containers that protect the viral genetic material inside. The container is inert - it is the viral genetic material inside which is responsible for causing disease. However, the container (capsid) is of key importance in the process of developing immunity through vaccination. Here, the body's immune system recognises the capsid proteins and generates antibodies to these, which then give the body protection against the disease. Therefore, production of just the capsid as a virus-like particle (VLP) should elicit a protective immune response, yet be totally safe. Furthermore, such production could be undertaken under low containment, which is both easier and cheaper, thus making such virus-like particle vaccines more accessible to developing countries. However, there are problems to be overcome, as many VLPs are unstable. We have a large amount of proof-of-principle data with the production of VLPs for poliovirus and have generated stabilised VLPs that offer better protection than the current polio vaccine (in animal models). We now we wish to apply our strategy to other viruses, focussing on the causative agents of hand, foot and mouth disease. This is a disease of growing concern due to outbreaks particularly in the SE Asia region, associated with hospitalisation and death. According to the World Health Organisation, this affected 1,520,274 people by the end of July in 2012 in China, with 431 reported deaths, and outbreaks are now reported in Europe. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
IMPRINT: IMmunising PRegnant women and INfants neTwork GCRF Networks Vaccines 02.17 award  in order to tackle the key challenges in the best use of vaccines in pregnancy and in newborns, and in the long term, improve maternal and newborn health in lower and middle income countries The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
The relationship between malarial anaemia, neutrophil function and susceptibility to invasive bacterial disease. IIB - Research Boards Jan/Feb 2016 - RM 2016 award to look at the relationship between malarial anaemia, neutrophil (white blood cells) function and susceptibility to invasive bacterial disease primarily in Gambia The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF-Crick African Network UKRI GROW award - The Crick Institute in London and five leading African partner institutions, will seek out the best postdoctoral researchers and provide training at the Crick, linked to help establishing research programmes back home to strengthen institutes as hubs of s The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
ManGO: Manchester Global Omics Initiative for Nutritional Health Nutrition underpins many of the health challenges faced by low and middle income countries. Historically, under-nutrition has been the dominant problem, with clear impacts, e.g. on growth and development, and on susceptibility to infection and responses to therapy. As well as health problems caused by under-nutrition, developing countries are facing new nutritional challenges due to globalisation and cultural change, facing the so-called "nutrition-transition". This emerging situation is compounded by inequalities in socioeconomic factors, by climate change, by food insecurity and by variable access to health provision. The potential range of clinical areas in which nutrition affects human welfare is extremely wide.  Coupling cutting-edge analytical and biological sciences and computational analysis of data will lead to a new understanding of molecular nutrition and its impacts on health and disease in LMICs, especially by integrating these approaches.  This pump-priming project builds upon existing strengths in research groups at the University of Manchester, and will develop strong links to partners in India and South Africa connecting key aspects of nutritional and clinical sciences. We will advance new areas where nutritional research can play a major future role in these settings, principally by establishing a closer integration of health data sciences, and cutting-edge laboratory based approaches to research coupled to sophisticated computational techniques. Our aim is in building close collaborations that create new synergies and qualitatively better research environments for the next phase.  The areas we will explore are of particular importance to local population health:  Nutrition in pregnancy and early development; childhood growth Nutrition and infectious disease  Nutrition and emerging non-communicable diseases e.g. allergy  The proposed 12-month developmental plan will focus on extending existing networks and creating new ones. Visits will be made between the partners, along with a series of workshops and other events to define future research opportunities and the key research questions to be addressed.   We will also undertake pilot research work (initially focussed on nutritional factors in childhood development and in tuberculosis) to develop the necessary tools and to ensure that the proposed topics are feasible for future major grant applications, especially in the 'Global Challenges Research Fund' arena.  The expected impact will be the development and conduct of world class collaborative research in nutrition and health, building research capacity in our partner institutions. We plan to follow on by successful research funding bids in basic science and clinical aspects of human nutrition in health and disease. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
GCRF: Tobacco control capacity programme UKRI GROW award - Working with researchers in South Asia and SubSaharan Africa, and offering training and research support, UKbased researchers hope to partner with local academics to develop and implement approaches to tackling Asian and African nations’ tobacco consumpti The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Early-life origins of brain resilience to mental illness and cognitive impairment across the life-course Global Mental Health Institutional pump priming award looking at Early-life origins of brain resilience to mental illness and cognitive impairment across the life-course in India The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
CHArMING - Control of Hypertension and diAbetes in MINas Gerais In Brazil, the frequency of adults with high blood pressure is around 35%, while diabetes is self-reported in 6.2%. Getting treatment for hypertension and diabetes can avoid people having difficulty managing their illness and their problems getting worse. Limited access to health services and few health workers to support have led to deficiencies in treatment, outcomes and quality of life of hypertensive and diabetic patients. In Minas Gerais state, the university and hospital established a Telehealth Network, in 2005, to use digital health solutions to improve access and quality to health care. A specific intervention in hypertension and diabetes was developed with positive results in the HealthRise project (2016-2018), in the Northeast of Minas Gerais, a remote region with limited number of health resources. The present project will develop a framework to implement this intervention in a larger number of primary health care (PHC) units, using these locations to improve the management of patients with high blood pressure and diabetes.  Training and clinical support developed by UFMG allow health workers in different roles to use the software and clinical workflows during a patient's visit to the PHC. The staff receives guidance and support from the software and additional specialist medical input to help managing hypertension and diabetes using the "best practice". Additionally the software contacts the patient via SMS to check in on the patient regularly, to help remind them about medication, activities and lifestyle changes such as diet that would help them manage and control their disease, empowering them in self-care when away from the care teams. The health care workers also participate in further online and face to face training to help continually develop understanding of the management of these patients.  In the fist part of the project, over the first two years, the teams from the different organisations will work with clinical staff, researchers, software designers, and trainers, to look and improve the intervention and software tools as they are currently being used. In the second part of the project, in years three to five, the teams will undertake a study in the Mucury Valley to compare the use of the intervention and training across the 34 primary health centres: one half of the sites will be given the software and training to treat and manage their patients, and the other half the sites will continue to treat and manage patients in the standard way. This will be a significant step to evaluate this innovation that has been developed within Brazil and look at how best to support this approach at scale to the wider state or country, reaching many communities living in poor urban and rural settings and reducing the burden of these diseases in this continental country. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
CHild malnutrition & Adult NCD: Generating Evidence on mechanistic links to inform future policy/practice (CHANGE project) GCRF Mech Nutition award To improve future treatment programmes by better understanding how child malnutrition affects the risk of long-term (adult) NCD. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Trade and Investment Enabling Environment Improve the capacity of businesses to integrate into domestic and international markets through increases in productivity and improvements in corporate governance and the development and application of modern technology and marketing practices. Enhance the capacity of businesses and business associations in terms of their corporate governance capabilities and their application of best practices and technologies to achieve increased production and marketing of products and services. It includes adoption of efficient production processes, improved labor productivity, environmentally-sound management of natural resources and the development of accounting and management systems that can help the company and industry group implement business, labor, product and process standards that enhance business competitiveness. Business capacity development programs may include activities that help men- and women-owned firms and associations respond to these international markets and create regional alliances.
USAID/OFDA Grant for HPGE (Disaster Coordination, Policy and Readiness) Grant to UNDESA to support OCHA JPOs
Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) - International Relief & Development The CSHGP facilitates a dynamic partnership between USAID and private and voluntary organizations (PVOs)/NGOs. Through the CSHGP, USAID leverages the development entrepreneurship and know how of PVOs/NGOs and their local partners for innovative and effective community-oriented programming that sustainably improves maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes, strengthens local and community health systems, and contributes to reductions in morbidity and mortality. PVOs/NGOs, with their local partners (national and local MOH, local NGOs/CBOs, communities), implement in a range of settings, from remote communities in a single district to multiple districts or a province. Projects address critical health needs of vulnerable populationsand work strategically with a systems approach at the household, community,health facility, and policy levels and strengthens linkages as relevant.
OFDA Institutional Support Contract IQC - Task Order for the FFP Emergency Food Security Program OFDA Institutional Support Contract IQC - Task Order for the FFP Emergency Food Security Program
Access to economic opportunities for the poor expanded Access to economic opportunities for the poor expanded
FY 2012 PASA with U.S. Forest Service to provide support to American Schools and Hospitals Abroad. FY 2012 PASA with U.S. Forest Service to provide support to American Schools and Hospitals Abroad.
USAID Research and Innovation Fellowships - Rutgers The USAID Research and Innovation Fellowships aim to build a sustainable model for knowledge exchange by connecting bright American minds with key in-country organizations to collaboratively apply science, technology, and innovation to complex development challenges.
Architecture and Engineering II Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (A&E II IDIQ) Services Architecture and Engineering II Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (A&E II IDIQ) Services
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Nutrition in Asia - Associate Award for Aflatoxin Research in Nepal Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Nutrition in Asia - Associate Award for Aflatoxin Research in Nepal
Crisis Assistance and Recovery - FFP Training and Conferences Provide goods, personnel, services and assistance to meet basic human needs in order to foster transition from relief according to principles of universality, impartiality and human dignity. This element should be done, when possible, as part of an integrated, coordinated and/or multi-sectoral approach.
Bellmon Estimation Studies for Title II (USAID-BEST) The USAID-BEST project analyzes local markets to assess the impact of a potential food aid program on a country's local economy. USAID-BEST recommendations include practical steps donors and private voluntary organizations can take to ensure food security program design supports local markets to reach critical food security goals. The USAID-BEST project presents these findings and recommendations in a Congressionally mandated report often referred to as a Bellmon analysis. USAID-BEST analyses have resulted in smart, objective, evidence-based food aid programming decisions. USAID-BEST also provides technical seminars on food aid in the context of local markets. USAID-BEST seminars have informed and increased the in-house technical capacity of US government agencies overseeing food security programs.
Grant Management Solutions (GMS) Project Provides technical assistance (TA) to improve the functioning of Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) grants. The aim of the GMS project is to improve the functioning of Global Fund grants, and thereby increase the effectiveness and efficiency of prevention, care and treatment interventions for HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in countries seeking TA. The mission of GMS is to provide urgent, short-term TA to CCMs and PRs for the purpose of unblocking bottlenecks and resolving systemic problems that hinder the response to the three diseases.
Azure Commercial Tenant Task Order under the Microsoft BPA This award is for a direct administrative costs or operating expenses of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Powering Agriculture: Energy Grand Challenge - Minigrids for Palm oil Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development award under the Microgrids category - Minigrids for Palm oil
Envision FP The objective of Envision FP is to develop, introduce, and expand understanding of contraceptive technologies and approaches to enhance choice and reduce unmet need.
Assets and Market Access Collaborative Research Support Program Provide support in mobilizing the capacities of U.S. universities and public and private partners of universities for 1) global research on problems affecting food, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; and 2) improved human capacity and institutional resource development for the global application of agriculture and related environmental sciences.
International Aid Transparency Initiative (USAID Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL)):  PPL will provide assessed and voluntary contributions to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).  The U.S. became a signatory to IATI in November 2011.  As such, it became a member of the IATI Steering Committee and subject to membership fees.  As of 2013, by agreement of its membership IATI was no longer fully funded by the UK and moved to a multilateral hosted platform.  Concurrent with this move, members agreed on a new approach to financing whereby donors pay a membership fee and others pay costs associated with participation in IATI governance arrangements.  Although core functions are covered under this assessment approach, the budget calls for voluntary contributions to enable IATI to extend technical support to partner countries and CSOs wishing to report to IATI.  USAID has a developmental interest in supporting this additional work, so PPL's Office of Donor Engagement (DE) would make a modest amount available as a voluntary contribution in addition to its membership fee.
Building Recovery and Reform through Democratic Governance Technical Assistance Services (BRDG) - Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) This IQC provides services in three primary areas: (1)reinforcing legitimacy of state structure, policies, andfunctions; (2) public management; and (3) strategicplanning, policy, and institutional reform. RTI is asubcontractor to MSI.
TB Communications Award II The TB Communications Award provides communications services to assist the USAID TB Team in describing its work to a variety of audiences. LRG provides communications and publishing services to effectively describe the work of the TB Team to a variety of audiences. By designing and producing reports, creating media materials and executing events, the TB teams efforts can reach a wider audience thereby making a bigger impact. The needs of the team include publications such as an annual report to Congress,.implementation of a communications plan for World TB Day, materials for other TB events throughout the year, and the production of media materials. The contractor works with the TB team to strategically plan for new ways to better communicate USAIDs efforts.
USAID/OFDA Grant for Public Health and Nutrition Need for setting up and scaling up integrated mental health programs in humanitarian settings
Contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) Founded in 2002, the Global Fund is a partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and people affected by the diseases. The Global Fund raises and invests nearly US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in more than 140 countries. We operate with three core principles: partnership, country ownership and performance-based funding. All partners need to take part in decision-making. People actually implementing grants know the best way to fight disease in their country, and come up with the most effective solutions. Funding should be provided where it can achieve the best results. By challenging barriers and embracing innovative approaches, we strive for maximum impact.
OFDA-2013-OD/Information Management-UNICEF OFDA-2013-OD/Information Management-UNICEF
PIO Grant to WHO for GATE PIO grant to World Health Organization (WHO) to support WHO s efforts and continued support of the WHO GATE initiative.
Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP): Assets and Markets Access (AMA) Food Security AA - GCC Participation (USAID Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3)):  USAID will invest in the Assets and Market Access (AMA) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), managed by the University of Wisconsin, to carry out household surveys and impact evaluations of global climate change (GCC) adaptation projects in the Dominican Republic and Ethiopia. These projects are investigating the effectiveness of index insurance as a tool to help livestock herders (pastoralists) and smallholder farmers manage changing drought, flood, and wind risks. (Direct GCC-Adaptation: $300,000)
SSO4 - Telecommunications + Information Technology Expanded access to and application of information and telecommunications services
Vocational Training and Education for Clean energy (VoTec) The Vocational Training and Education for Clean Energy (VOC TEC) LWA Objectives for World: Build capacity of partner institutions by providing curriculum, equipment and training manuals: Train the trainers in solar photovoltaic energy systems. Help the trainers train technicians. Promote use of virtual training materials to support learning. Create programs in new countries in the Pacific.
Protection, Assistance and Solutions - PSC in Washington Supports the following illustrative program-funded costs: salaries of US, FSN, and TCN and other staff such as PSCs, RSSAs, PASAs, CASUs working for the US Government managing, administering, and supporting programs and their program-funded benefits such as housing, travel, transportation, education allowances etc; institutional contractors that provide such staff, rent, IT services, the program-funded share of utilities, staff training costs and the cost of developing and administering training programs, equipment and supplies, ICASS, vehicle fuel and maintenance, maintenance contracts, janitorial services, operational unit web page development and maintenance, outreach such as publications and the cost of their preparation (including staff costs), and technical assistance to ensure USG compliance with regulations.
Increased technical cooperation among middle eastern, develo Increased technical cooperation among middle eastern, developing countries, and the U.S.