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NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery: Establishing a Sustainable Network of Surgical Research The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery (GSU) initially funded in 2017, established seven surgical research Hubs (Benin, Rwanda, Ghana, India, Nigeria, Mexico, South Africa), coordinating research through more than 70 ‘spoke’ hospitals across three continents, prioritised through LMIC led Delphi processes (2016-20). 

In this funding envelope we will seek excellence through a new body of prioritised primary research, equitable partnerships through transfer of research leadership to the Hubs, sustainability through new Hub-based training centres. Research Objectives:
1.	Generate randomised evidence to support sustainable expansion of surgical workforces.
2.	Accelerate and sustain a pipeline of research to improve outcomes after surgery in LMICs.
3.	Develop evidence to create resilient surgical systems.
4.	Generate evidence to support resource allocation decisions through trial and model based economic evaluation alongside the primary research.

Education and Training Objectives:
1.	Facilitate staged transfer of research leadership to LMIC Hub Directors.
2.	Establish sustainable training in surgical research methods.
3.	Develop data management and analysis capability.
4.	Develop new cohort of surgical research leaders.
5.	Facilitate development of clinical research management teams. 
6.	Create and utilise sustainable South to South learning pathways.

Community Engagement and Inclusion (CEI) Objectives:
1.	Establish a flexible and sustainable LMIC led CEI steering group in each partner country.
2.	Develop an LMIC led CEI strategy for research project, with an integrated South to South feedback loop.
3.	Bespoke training through South to South learning.
4.	Make CEI steering group advocates for surgical research through engagement with key stakeholders (communities, relevant policy makers). 

Impact Objectives:
1.	To connect research outputs to multiple stakeholders (patients, clinicians, policy makers).
2.	To establish and maintain two-way pathways for stakeholder engagement.
3.	To establish local and global pathways to policymakers.
4.	To create a sustainable framework for Impact assessment around the 6 domains of healthcare quality.
NIHR GRP: Translating evidence for Early Intervention in Psychosis (TRANSLATE) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Implementation and Evaluation Aims: We aim to develop and establish early intervention for psychosis services in Pakistan and Sri Lanka and assess whether the service can help improve the health outcomes among people with first episodes of psychosis. We also aim to understand the factors that are associated with treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS) and whether based on these factors we can develop a tool that can predict the likelihood of a patient developing treatment resistant schizophrenia. This project has 6 objectives:

1. To implement a culturally sensitive early intervention psychosis (EIP) service in Pakistan and Sri Lanka based on recent guidelines for managing first episode psychosis (FEP) adopted for low-and-middle-income (LMIC) settings.

2. Evaluate the implementation of EIP in maintaining engagement with the services, achieving remission in FEP, and other relevant implementation outcomes.

3. To assemble a cohort of FEP within the EIP service and identify potential predicting factors of treatment resistant schizophrenia at one-year follow-up.

4. To develop a prognostic model for estimating an individual's risk of treatment resistance at one year and to undertake the validation of the model's predictive performance.

5. To identify barriers and facilitators for the scale-up of the EIP at regional and international level.

6. To build capacity for implementation research and service development for youth mental health in LMICs.
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase II: funding for 2024 work plan The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR provided funding to the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) which aims to support collaborative research that accelerates the clinical development of new or improved interventions to prevent or treat poverty related as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa. NIHR has supported research capacity strengthening and training in sub-Saharan Africa, related to strengthening clinical trials capacity as part of the 2024 Workplan focussed on: 
•	Support for an updated EDCTP Masters scholarship scheme for candidates from sub-Saharan Africa to undertake Masters degrees with an option for an associated project or policy activity 
•	Support for candidates from sub-Saharan Africa to attend training specific to improving clinical trial capability in sub-Saharan Africa 1.	Support for an updated EDCTP Masters scholarship scheme for candidates from sub-Saharan Africa to attend relevant Master programmes in subject areas relevant to clinical research, epidemiology, clinical trials and global health, with an associated option for a further research or policy project
2.	Scholarships for:  
(i) candidates from sub-Saharan Africa to attend the 2-week training programme, Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC) for scientists and decision-makers involved in vaccine development, new vaccination strategies or in associated policy areas
(ii) Strengthening the EDCTP Regional Networks of Excellence through bioprocessing training
NIHR HPSR-DA: The political economy of universal health coverage reforms: building capacity and engagement of francophone West Africa Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a global priority to ensure health for all and reduce health inequalities (SDG3.8). However, progress towards UHC is an inherently political process. Political Economy Analysis (PEA) is an essential tool in the field of health policy and system research to shed light on the barriers and facilitators of UHC reforms. Although recent work has been done to develop PEA frameworks for UHC and to apply PEA, francophone West Africa remains understudied and underrepresented in the research arena. This project aims to develop a strong, effective and equitable research partnership between research institutions in the UK and francophone West Africa (initially in Benin, to be expanded to other countries during the grant period), to strengthen research capacity and frameworks and to build networks with stakeholders and communities. This will enable us to launch cutting-edge research on UHC and collectively to improve progress towards it in this region. 1) Develop a research partnership to catalyse a formative, collaborative programme of work and to strengthen research management, dissemination capacity and research skills in the domain of PEA applied to UHC. 
2) Establish an active and engaged programme of PEA research in francophone West Africa to support UHC progress, grounded in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders, from government bodies to civil society groups. 
3) Develop a future research project focused on the application of PEA and the creation of a network of national observatories to generate prospective evidence on the political dynamics underlying UHC reforms
NIHR GRP: Stopping mothers dying From Sepsis in Africa The NIHR Global Research Professorship scheme is open to all professions and all Higher Education Institutions (HEI), based in England and the Devolved Administrations, to nominate health researchers and methodologists with an outstanding research record of clinical and applied health research and its effective translation for improved health. Global Research Professors are required to have existing strong collaborations or links with collaborators or partners in institutions in countries on the OECD DAC list and the award should plan to strengthen these/support training and capacity development/mentorship in these partners.  Maternal sepsis is one of the most important causes of death and harm to mothers and their babies during or after pregnancy. It disproportionately impacts women and their families in low income countries. This research will improve our understanding of the epidemiology of maternal infection, optimise approaches to better prevent and diagnose maternal sepsis, and rigorously test at scale a facility level intervention aiming to improve maternal sepsis outcomes. The research will be focused in Malawi, and an important part of this programme will be working collaboratively with Malawian researchers to build maternal health research capacity. This research aims to make major advances in the understanding of maternal infection in Malawi, and how to better prevent and manage these infections in order to reduce mortality and morbidity from maternal sepsis in Africa. The research programme workstreams are 1.) Understanding maternal infection in Malawi; 2.) Preventing infections; focussing on caesarean section and miscarriage surgery and 3.) Improving the management of maternal sepsis. Additionally, the research programme has two cross-cutting themes – 1) training and capacity building and 2) Communication with the public, practitioners, and policy makers.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Improving Asthma Outcomes in African Children A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to assess asthma control, current treatment, knowledge of and attitudes to asthma in African schools, and the barriers to achieving good control in 3000 asthmatic children aged 12 to 14 years in schools in six African countries, utilising data to design a school-based intervention. 1) Adaption of a UK online asthma survey for schools so that it is applicable to secondary schoolchildren in urban Africa via focus groups of asthmatic children at each centre. 2)  Provide the survey online to children aged 12 to 14 years presenting to secondary care with an acute asthma attack in order to generate data from asthmatic children who may not be attending school. 3) Since there are many phenotypes of asthma, the group will phenotype children with asthma by; i) pre-and postbronchodilator spirometry, ii) exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), a marker of airway eosinophilia, and iii) by the reported pattern of wheeze (e.g. predominately viral-triggered attacks, persistent wheeze with with atopic symptoms). To obtain objective data on medication adherence, and daily changes in lung function, a subgroup of children will be provided with a mobile smart phone, a personal peak flow device, and inhaler adherence assessment technology. Real-time data on adherence and lung function will be delivered via mobile technology to the data platform.

Following a costed extension, additional objectives will include:
1. Describe the burden of microenvironmental air pollution exposure in urban children with asthma symptoms in sub-Saharan Africa.

2. Explore connections of air pollution exposure to lung health and function in these children.

3. Collect personal air pollution exposure data, lung function and exhaled nitric oxide, and activity profiled from 420 children with asthma symptoms aged between 12 and 16 in 7 African cities.

4. Analyse personal air pollution data for exposure patterns and peak exposures, and to compare air pollution and activity profiles of children in relation to their socioeconomic and geographical backgrounds.

5. Explore potentially detrimental effects of air pollution and feasibility of potential mitigation strategies in children with asthma symptoms identified by ACACIA (Achieving Control of Asthma in Children in Africa).
NIHR Global Health Policy and Systems Research community of interest development To inform the development of a dedicated NIHR-led Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) programme and the co-creation of strategic partnerships addressing global HPSR, NIHR is undertaking outreach and consultation activities to establish areas where there is an unmet need or skill shortage, and areas which are under-funded or under-researched. Universities UK will undertake a research project to develop a community of interest to support engagement in NIHR Global HPSR programme calls, knowledge sharing and in the identification of research priorities for Global HPSR. Initial aims are to build interest and engagement in NIHR global health systems research opportunities and facilitate meaningful exchange, collaborations and learning, focusing on:
Mobilising UK research interest via HSRUK’s (Health Services Research UK) membership and academic networks; Deploying the whole community to contribute priority research themes and wider insights; encouraging uptake of funding and collaborative opportunities; supporting researchers to answer policy-relevant questions to improve health systems; sharing knowledge within and beyond the community to increase capacity and impact.
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Genomic Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to establish expertise and local research capacity in the use of whole genome sequencing in LMICs in order to provide intelligent global surveillance of microbial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. 1) Develop capacity for locally-led research projects in LMICs and sampling frameworks to address national public health and research needs. 2) Provide actionable data at national and international levels to identify high-risk lineages of bacterial pathogens and determinants of antibiotic resistance, and open-access tools to understand their distribution and spread. 3) Provide resourcing and training for local capacity and expertise to ensure ownership of outputs and utility for action. 4) Build a network of laboratories and experts across strategically important countries from which to expand to similar local contexts elsewhere.
Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Scale-up call for the prevention and/or management of hypertension and/or diabetes The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), in partnership with the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD), funds implementation research to generate new knowledge on interventions and their implementation for the prevention or management of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Scale-up call for research in the scaling up of evidence-based interventions at the population level for the prevention and/or management of hypertension and/or diabetes (the "Scale-up call") will support research associated with the scale-up of interventions for the prevention and/or detection and management of hypertension and/or diabetes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This activity is a component of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases programme, GB-GOV-10-GACD. To support research associated with the scale-up of interventions for the prevention and/or detection and management of hypertension and/or diabetes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); To develop a network of researchers that can enhance the cumulative learning across individual projects and work towards understanding how socio-economic, cultural, geopolitical and policy contexts have influenced results and how findings might be adapted and applied in different settings.
Joint Global Health Trials Initiative: funding for research calls 7-11 The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) funds outstanding global health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). This programme is administered by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), which reports activities under the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). NIHR disburses funds to MRC, which makes onwards disbursements to awardees. This activity (Joint Global Health Trials Initiative: funding for research calls 7-11) funds proposals designed to yield implementable results and designed to address the major causes of mortality or morbidity in LMICs. This is a component of Joint Global Health Trials Initiative (GB-GOV-10-JGHT), reported by DHSC. The objectives of this activity are detailed under Joint Global Health Trials Initiative (GB-GOV-10-JGHT), reported by DHSC.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Dementia Prevention and Enhanced Care (DePEC) A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to bring together expertise in public health and primary care with global epidemiological research to look at enhancing dementia prevention and care. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. 1) Create a new Global Research Group on dementia risk reduction and improved post-diagnostic care to map existing dementia research and care in partner LMIC. 2) Develop simple tools to identify people at high risk of developing dementia and those with undetected dementia. 3) Establish dementia risk reduction research in LMIC by setting up and piloting an intervention to reduce dementia risk. 4) Determine efficient and feasible dementia care models for LMICs and transferable educational initiatives for a skilled workforce. 5) Develop an impact strategy for each partner LMIC, including research priorities, service organisation and workforce development.
NIHR RIGHT1: Prevention of epilepsy from birth-related brain injury A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to examine if a simple, pragmatic, and evidenced-based intrapartum care bundle for labour involving birth companions and empowering mothers will reduce perinatal brain injury and thus prevent epilepsy in India. 1. To examine if a pragmatic and evidenced-based intrapartum care bundle involving birth companions and empowering mothers will reduce birth injury related epilepsy at 18 months of age in India. 
2. If effective, incorporate care bundle into the Labour Room Quality Improvement (LaQshya) programme, for national implementation, thus averting approximately 50,000 epilepsy cases every year in India. 
3. Provide opportunities for academic and clinical capacity building in India in midwifery, neonatal/paediatric neurology and epilepsy, and public health.
NIHR HPSR-DA: Building collaborations to strengthen health systems to respond to the needs of newly urbanised populations in Africa and Asia Many developing countries are experiencing rapid and unplanned urbanisation. Previous research has shown that this can create a variety of new health risks from communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and that newly-urbanised people can find it more difficult to access health services. Through this award, we will develop the research design, methods and partnerships for a large participatory project examining these issues in four countries across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A pilot study in Nepal will be used to trial a series of participatory research methods (Participatory Video, Participatory Photo and Participatory Mapping) to capture the experiences and perceptions of both newly-urbanised people and providers of health services, to bring these into dialogue with health planners and policymakers, and to learn lessons for a larger-scale funding proposal. Meanwhile, preparatory work and network building will be carried out in Ghana, Bangladesh and one other African country. 1) Develop the partnerships and methods, and prioritise research questions, to inform a larger programme of research which will use a participatory approach to i) better understand lived experiences of the health costs/benefits of urbanisation; and ii) identify mechanisms to enhance the accountability and responsiveness of health systems to the needs of the newly-urbanised. 
2) Develop and refine various participatory methods to enable newly-urbanised people, as well as health system stakeholders, to work with us to identify priority areas for research and action, through conducting a pilot study in Nepal
3) Involve partners from other countries in the pilot, enabling consideration of how the methods can be adapted and applied in Bangladesh, Ghana and one other country
4) Build relationships with municipal governments, service providers and other health system stakeholders in each country and determine their priorities for research
5) Build institutional and individual capacity and strengthen partnerships
6) Conduct systematic literature reviews and identify suitable study sites in Bangladesh and Ghana (plus one other country)
7) Develop the ethical protocols for the project’s participatory approach.
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s fifth Global Research Professorship call National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)’s fifth Global Research Professorship call. The Global Research Professorships programme funds research leaders, with a track-record of applied health research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to promote effective translation of research and to strengthen research leadership at the highest academic levels. Funding of up to £2m over up to 5 years is awarded to Professors working in close partnership with a research institution in an LMIC. By the end of the award, NIHR Global Research Professors will be expected to: 

1) Have demonstrated research leadership at a national and/or international level.
2) Have been developed and protected by their institutions, including being relieved of administrative tasks.
3) Enhance existing and establish new research collaborations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
4) Have supported training and capacity strengthening/mentorship within LMIC and UK (if applicable) institutions that enhances research capacity for future global health and care research.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Atrial Fibrillation Management A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to build and establish long-term, sustainable collaborations in China, Brazil and Sri Lanka to increase research capacity and atrial fibrillation (AF) education/awareness amongst key stakeholders through co-developed, culturally-adapted, community-based approaches, and deliver locally-focused evidence-based research investigating developments of pragmatic patient pathways to generate further funding opportunities. 1) Develop and consolidate sustainable collaboration, shared vision and links with patients and policy makers to sustainably improve local services. 2) Strengthen community-based research culture, including patient and public involvement (PPI), and capacity to improve understanding of atrial fibrillation (AF) and improve health outcomes. 3) To adapt, with PPI, and assess feasibility of prioritised evidence-based sustainable pharmacological and behavioural approaches for integrated AF management within the resource confines of local health systems. 4) To develop, with PPI, and test feasibility of culturally-adapted, community-based approaches to increase education/awareness and to provide sufficient knowledge (patient, families, HCP) about AF and its complications to empower patients. 5) To provide evidence and develop local models of best care for local policy makers to improve well-being of AF patients and provide a template for extending this work to other chronic conditions. 6) To build a sustainable research platform within partner countries for future collaborations.