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NIHR Academy Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Activity Plan The NIHR Academy Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Activity Plan outlines activities the NIHR Academy will provide to support research capacity strengthening in the Global Health Research (GHR) Programmes (Units, Groups, Centres, Health Policy & Systems Research programmes and the Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation programme).The aim is for the NIHR Academy to add value, support and build on the NIHR Official Development Assistance (ODA) investment in global health research programmes through specific demand-led events and community development together with awards and career development activities that help strengthen research capacity. 1. To add value and build on the investment made by the GHR Programmes to research capacity strengthening specifically in the area of academic careers
2. To help those being trained and the individuals supporting them to feel part of NIHR and be part of a larger environment that extends beyond their funded programme/localty
3. To offer an opportunity for individuals to practise the skills they will need to succeed as an independent researcher
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Post Conflict Trauma (PrOTeCT) A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of civilians afflicted by blast injuries, 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 understanding of biomaterials and orthopaedic technology. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. 1) Identify patient characteristics that have led to early avoidable amputation. 2) Provide immediate surgeon education for limb salvage/amputation using state of the art techniques. 3) Co-develop with our partners a biomaterial for bone that can be made locally, based on x-rays, and that will resorb over time. CAPACITY BUILDING: 1) Build a single research and translation team with surgeons, engineers and materials scientists co-located in both Sri Lanka and the UK, leveraging the expertise and caseload in Lebanon. 2) Strengthen the Biomedical Engineering programme at the University of Moratuwa (UoM) in Sri Lanka to include a Trauma stream with leadership from Dr Karunaratne. 3) Share unique and rare data and experiences to allow an improved understanding of civilian blast injury where global terror remains a threat to civilian populations. 4) Understand the healthcare burden post conflict to influence and enable overseas intervention.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Global Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Primary Care A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to foster research in primary care and communities to improve the diagnosis, management and prognosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients in LMICs. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. 1) To strengthen local research capacity in the partner countries in community-based COPD research and generic population research methods. 2) To develop and test community-based and culturally-appropriate approaches for identifying undiagnosed COPD in low resource countries. 3) To adapt evidence-based behavioural approaches for management of COPD according to cultural needs and the local healthcare infrastructure, and assess the feasibility of their implementation. 4) To build a robust platform for future collaborative research within the partner countries and other similar settings.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Stroke A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to integrate existing stroke research excellence with healthcare and training infrastructures to improve stroke outcomes for people in Sierra Leone within five years. 1) Facilitate links with the UK, Ghana and Sierra Leone to set up the Stroke Unit at Connaught Hospital (Sierra Leone). 2) Deliver stroke specialist training to nurses to improve quality of care. 3) Facilitate a stroke team at 34 Military Hospital (Sierra Leone). 4) Train research and clinical staff in GCP, consent, and data collection and management.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Implementation of solutions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and build research capacity in Sierra Leone In Sierra Leone, 1 in every 17 women will die during pregnancy or childbirth. It is one of the most dangerous places to give birth in the world. This NIHR Global Health Research Group is a partnership between the University of Sierra Leone and King’s College London to develop and implement life-saving maternal health interventions and build research capacity in Sierra Leone. Within our programme of research our main objectives are: 
1.     To determine the impact of scaling up the CRADLE Vital Signs Alert (VSA) device in rural Sierra Leone. 
2.     To improve health, psycho-social, educational, and economic outcomes for pregnant under-18-year-olds in Sierra Leone, under the 2 Young Lives mentoring scheme. 
3.     To determine whether shock index (heart rate divided by systolic blood pressure, as measured by the CRADLE VSA device) is a better predictor of poor pregnancy outcomes than conventional vital signs in women who are bleeding or have severe infection.
4.     To validate a point of care creatinine device, to detect acute kidney injury in women with bleeding, severe infection or high blood pressure during pregnancy. 
5.     To conduct a cost benefit analysis of the CRADLE VSA device to inform subsequent adoption and policy pathway.
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Early Career Grants Scheme 2022 A partnership with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) to support small grant awards for early career researchers based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Awards will specifically support research and capacity development for LMIC researchers which will benefit patients and the public in LMICs The 2022 small grants scheme will: 
1) 	enable early career researchers and global health professionals in LMICs to undertake clinical and applied health research or fieldwork
2) 	develop research and management skills of early career LMIC researchers through leading a small independent research project
3) 	establish a peer cohort of awardees to increase collaboration and networking opportunities
4) 	enhance future funding opportunities of LMIC early career researchers
5) 	strengthen a beneficial scheme to ensure that a higher proportion of fundable applications receive funding than previous years
Grand Challenges Canada - Being a mental health initiative 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 initiative is administered by Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) and funded in partnership with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Fondation Botnar, the Science for Africa Foundation and United for Global Mental Health. The initiative funds research and innovation in 13 priority ODA-eligible countries to influence change in programming, research and policies relating to young people’s mental wellbeing. 1. Increase low- and middle-income country (LMIC)-driven research and research capacity to better understand the mental health ecosystem as well as impacts of COVID-19;
2. Implement relational wellbeing approaches within mainstream services for young people ages 10 – 24;
3. Increase mental health service coverage through the use of data and digital technology;
4. Generate transformative change in mental health approaches at the community level guided by young people; and
5. Catalyze adoption of key insights by stakeholders and partners.
NIHR GRP: Translational Research to Reduce Mortality from Central Nervous System (CNS) Infections 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. Infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are major causes of mortality in low- and middle-income countries. This research aims to generate a detailed understanding of the aetiology of adult meningitis in this setting to inform diagnostic pathways and treatment strategies. The research group will evaluate affordable point-of-care diagnostic tests for meningitis, which are urgently needed to facilitate diagnosis, screening and prevention strategies, and trial novel effective treatments required to improve patient outcomes. The project is based in Botswana and the majority of the research will be conducted in this region. To improve management of adult meningitis in African settings with high levels of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Key goals are (1) to collect information on all patients being tested for meningitis at an African hospital, and run very detailed testing to determine the causes; (2) to evaluate new tests for meningitis capable of testing for many different infections at once and diagnosing infection at the bedside; (3) to test a new treatment for cryptococcal meningitis (CM), the commonest cause of meningitis in this setting, based on a single very high dose of an existing drug called liposomal amphotericin; and (4) to perform a detailed examination of the patients’ immune responses and genetic make up to try to find out why some patients develop CM while some do not, and what factors are associated with death from CM.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Improving Outcomes in Mental and Physical Multimorbidity and Developing Research Capacity (IMPACT) in South Asia A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness and the mental health of people with chronic physical conditions in LMICs. 1)  Improve health and reduce deaths associated with diabetes, heart and lung diseases in people with severe mental illness (SMI) by addressing the most common health risk behaviours identified by a physical health survey, assembling a cohort of people who can be approached for future research and by designing interventions aimed at changing health risk behaviours (tobacco, physical activity, alcohol and diet) based on a brief talking therapy. 2) Reduce depression and anxiety in people with chronic physical health conditions by integrating the detection and treatment of depression/anxiety into an intervention package for chronic diseases delivered in primary care. 3)  Build research teams and capacity to secure competitive funding and delivery world class applied health research informing policy and practice in these areas.

Following a costed extension, additional objectives will include:
Work stream 1: Conduct workshops with a range of stakeholders to understand facilitators and barriers to integrating services for identifying and managing depression in tuberculosis (TB) and chronic hepatitis services.
1. Train staff in TB and hepatitis services to identify depression and deliver treatment.
2. Provide specialist supervision for non-mental health specialists in those settings.
3. Release staff and other resources to help integrate depression care.
4. Scale up and sustain integrated provision.
5. Explore with patients the acceptability of routine depression case-finding and treatment within TB/ chronic hepatitis care and potential adverse outcomes of integration.

Work stream 2: Run co-designed workshops with patients and healthcare staff to develop plans, pathways and materials for integrating depression care in TB and chronic hepatitis services.

Work stream 3: Test feasibility of plans and materials for depression case-finding.
1. Identify and train staff in exemplar sites to case find using standard instruments.
2. Collect quantitative and qualitative data form audits, focus groups and individual interviews.
3. Revise plans, materials, future intervention and trial design based on results.
4. Develop new partnerships with National TB programmes and hepatitis services in partner countries.
5. Continued capacity-strengthening and skill development for early career researchers.
Antimicrobial Resistance in a Global Context 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 research call supports investments in interdisciplinary and focussed research at international levels to identify the burden and primary drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and specifically antibacterial resistance in low- and middle-income countries. 1) Draw together UK groups with researchers and policy makers in partner low and middle income countries. 2) Support the use of a range of research approaches, from clinical and microbiological to geography, modelling and social sciences, in order to identify, prioritise and understand the specific problem of antibacterial resistance (ABR) across different communities and environments. 3) Help build capacity in this area of research in partner countries.
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Stillbirth and Neonatal Death The NIHR Global Health Unit on the Prevention and Management of Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, led from the Centre for Childbirth, Women’s and Newborn Health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine UK, is an established equitable multidisciplinary partnership between Africa, Asia and UK-based researchers. As an international centre of research excellence, our goal is to end preventable stillbirths and newborn deaths, ensure adequate support for parents and families whose baby dies and reduce associated stigma. 

Using a whole systems approach, we work across high burden settings in India, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. We aim to develop, test and implement sustainable and cost-effective solutions to strengthen maternity and newborn care, reducing mortality and morbidity through high-quality, respectful and compassionate maternity and newborn care. 

Activities cover the entire spectrum of maternal and newborn health from preconception to post/neonatal care, with a strong focus on meaningful community and stakeholder partnerships. We co-produce research with women, families, front-line health workers and policy makers. 

Working across 10 work streams, we are drawing on the team’s methodological expertise to deliver impactful findings from evidence syntheses, exploratory studies (qualitative and quantitative approaches), core outcomes sets, clinical trials and implementation research.   

Capacity strengthening for maternal and newborn health research, across all partner countries is embedded throughout the Unit. We have a particular, but not exclusive, interest and experience in developing midwifery and nursing research capacity to address global shortages in these disciplines. Our development programmes spans 3 masters students, 9 PhD placements and 3 post-doctoral fellowships as well as project specific and institutional skills training. 1.	Develop and evaluate sustainable, cost-effective solutions to strengthen maternity and newborn care and reduce stillbirths and neonatal deaths in high-burden settings (Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India, Pakistan). 
2.	Determine how best to support parents, families, attending health providers and communities who experience a stillbirth or neonatal death. 
3.	Strengthen research capacity with particular (but not exclusive) emphasis on midwives and nurses.
4.	Create and embed mechanisms of knowledge-transfer in high-burden settings.
UK Collaborative on Development Research (UCKDR) annual contribution The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) provides a funding contribution to the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR), a neutral and impartial entity governed by the Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (SCOR) Board. UKCDR provide high-level coherence for UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) research. UKCDR have a principal commitment to data mapping, analysis and foresight, with remaining activities built upon this strong foundation of knowledge and evidence. UKCDR have four integrated and overlapping aims:
-Mapping, analysis and foresight
-Convening for collaboration and joint action
-Sharing information, learning and best practice
-A collective voice to shape policy
Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases 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 Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) coordinates and supports research activities that address the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases, on a global scale. The GACD is the first collaboration of major research funding agencies to specifically address chronic non-communicable diseases. 1) Coordination - To build increasing levels of research collaboration across the member agencies; 2) Awareness - To create a platform for general awareness raising and to conduct outreach beyond the original founding members; 3) Capacity-building - To develop and maintain global knowledge-sharing platforms in the conduct and management of chronic non-communicable diseases research in low- and middle-income countries.
NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation: Call 5 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)'s fifth Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) call. RIGHT funds cutting-edge interdisciplinary applied health research in key areas in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where a strategic and targeted investment can result in a transformative impact. 
RIGHT Call 5 supports equitable partnerships between researchers to generate new research knowledge and evidence on interventions aimed to strengthen health service delivery and resilience for extreme weather events in ODA-eligible countries. 
UK and LMIC-based universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications. Research must be focused on improving the health and welfare of people in LMICs. The aims of NIHR RIGHT Call 5 are to:
1. Deliver applied health research for the direct and primary benefit to the health and wealth of people living in ODA-eligible countries, with a focus on strengthening health service delivery and resilience for extreme weather events. 
2. Strengthen capacity for research and knowledge exchange through equitable partnerships between researchers and institutions involved in the research.
3. Promote interdisciplinary approaches to working (including, but not limited to: clinical medicine, health economics, statistics, qualitative and social sciences), to ensure that research objectives can be delivered. 
4. Generate new research knowledge and evidence on interventions to improve health outcomes of people in LMICs.
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Neglected Tropical Diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (Phase 2) Since 2017, the NIHR Global Health Research Unit (GHRU) on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) at Brighton and Sussex Medical School has carried out a highly successful needs-driven research programme in partnership with Addis Ababa University and the Armauer Hansen Research Institute in Ethiopia, and the Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Sudan. 

Our GHRU has focused on three conditions considered severely neglected in terms of research, public attention and political will: 
1.	podoconiosis (a progressive, disabling form of leg swelling seen in barefoot farmers)
2.	mycetoma (a destructive infection of the skin and underlying tissues) 
3.	scabies (a profoundly irritating skin condition caused by burrowing mites)

Our studies have spanned wide-ranging disciplines to address questions directly relevant to national and global NTD elimination agendas. 

This research has been conducted within a strong framework of capacity strengthening which has developed infrastructure and financial management at partner institutions and trained 11 PhD students and five post-doctoral researchers. All early career researchers have benefitted from training opportunities within and beyond their countries, and from the NIHR Global Health Academy. We will build on these strong foundations in the next five years and expand the partnership to include the University of Rwanda.

We will use a range of methods to investigate new research questions clustered into four interrelated themes: 
1.	mechanisms of disease
2.	geospatial mapping
3.	diagnostics and drug development
4.	implementation research

The questions have been prioritised through a process of: 
1.	identifying the areas in which our GHRU has had the most impact
2.	participating in WHO and disease-group identification of research gaps in these areas
3.	consulting with stakeholders including patients, communities, implementers and policy makers. 

Our research will contribute evidence important to disease treatment and prevention strategies and continue to enhance research capacity to ensure sustainability. Scientific Objectives: 
1.	investigate pathogen genetic diversity and/or host susceptibility to each condition
2.	improve understanding of the disease burden and distribution of each condition through a combination of field-based mapping and geo-spatial modelling
3.	identify new diagnostics and treatments for scabies
4.	evaluate services to improve prevention, diagnosis and care of these conditions, in particular integrating these with other skin-NTDs

Strategic Objectives:
1.	develop a network of researchers studying podoconiosis, mycetoma and scabies across three DAC countries
2.	increase societal awareness and expand the evidence base for national and international policy relating to these three NTDs

Capacity Strengthening Objectives:

1.	support endemic-country PhD and postdoctoral training posts so that capacity for research into NTDs is expanded
2.	strengthen the research environment in which our collaborators and trainees work