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NIHR RIGHT2: Developing group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression in Lebanon and Kenya A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) research partnership to evaluate the impact of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (g-IPT+) for treatment of postnatal depression in Lebanon and Kenya. The research will adapt the therapy for use in these two countries and evaluate its potential impact on child developmental outcomes, maternal depression and the mother-child relationship. Depression is the most common mental health issue affecting women of childbearing age. 20%-25% of women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience depression during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, which can have long term consequences for both the mother and child. However, treatment for postnatal depression is rarely available in primary care in many LMICs. This project seeks to improve understanding of postnatal depression and increase access to treatment for communities in Lebanon and Kenya by developing and evaluating a Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (g-IPT+) treatment. Overall the study will determine whether a culturally-adapted g-IPT+ delivered in community settings in Lebanon and Kenya could have a greater impact on child developmental outcomes, maternal depression and the mother-child relationship than high quality standard care for postnatal depression. The projects objectives are:
1. To develop a systematic understanding of how the local communities perceive postnatal depression, and use this learning to work with experienced local practitioners to develop a culturally appropriate and optimised g-IPT+.
2. Improve access to treatment by training local workers to identify postnatal depression and to deliver adapted g-IPT+.
3. Assess the potential of the g-IPT+ approach to promote child development and treat maternal depressive symptoms, and estimate the cost effectiveness.  
4. Embed sustainable care pathways for postnatal depression. 
5. Leverage partnerships with local communities to build research capacity in Lebanon and Kenya.
6. Develop a toolkit to support training and implementation in other countries around the globe.
NIHR RIGHT2: Community-based care improving outcomes for people with psychosis in Pakistan and India. A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) research partnership to improve the quality of community-based care for people with psychosis in Pakistan and India by adapting and testing a low-cost approach called DIALOG+, and to raise awareness through arts projects involving people with psychosis and community members. Psychosis is a serious mental illness and can be very distressing for individuals and their families. People with psychosis often have a poor quality of life, and many do not receive the treatment they need. This is called the treatment gap. This project seeks to address the treatment gap in India and Pakistan through adapting a low cost treatment called “DIALOG+” so that it can be delivered in the community. DIALOG+ is known to help reduce symptoms and support people to have improved quality of life. The projects objectives are as follows:
1. Work with the communities in Pakistan and India to adapt DIALOG+ for their needs, thereby making this treatment more widely available and accessible.
2. Test the effectiveness of the adapted DIALOG+ in the selected communities to see if people with psychosis receiving DIALOG+ show improvements.
3. Develop the skills of local researchers and services through a programme of capacity-building and knowledge exchange.
4. Use arts based methods to educate and raise awareness about psychosis in the selected communities, so as to tackle discrimination against people with psychosis.
Joint Global Health Trials Initiative: funding for research calls 1-6 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 1-6) 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 Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation: Call 2 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)'s second 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 2 is funding mental health research in LMICs through supporting applied research on the development and evaluation of interventions to improve outcomes for people affected by mental health issues. UK universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications including a co-applicant or joint lead applicant from an LMIC relevant to the research proposal. Research must be focused on improving the health and welfare of people in LMICs. 1. Deliver research for the primary benefit to the health and welfare of the poorest individuals living in in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), through research for the development and evaluation of interventions to improve outcomes for those affected by mental health issues.
2. Strengthen capacity for research and knowledge exchange through equitable partnerships between researchers in the UK and LMICs. 
3. Promote interdisciplinary approaches to working (including, but not limited to: clinical, health economics, statistics, qualitative and social sciences), to ensure that research objectives can be delivered.
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase II: funding for 2016 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 as part of the 2016 Workplan focussed on, ‘Research and clinical management of patients in PRD epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa Clinical trials’ and ‘Operational research studies to optimise the use of products for poverty-related diseases in mothers, newborns, children and/or adolescents’. This activity is a component of European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) phase II programme (GB-GOV-10-EDCTP2). 1) Support the establishment of a multidisciplinary consortium able to provide accelerated evidence for the optimal clinical management of patients and for guiding the public health response to any severe infectious outbreak caused by pathogens with pandemic potential or that may cause significant damage to health and socio-economics in Africa (including antimicrobial-resistant pathogens); 2) To optimise the use, delivery and access to poverty-related disease medicinal products in sub-Saharan Africa for mothers, newborns, children and/or adolescents. Supported projects should contribute to a better understanding of the role of PRDs in maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent mortality and morbidity, as well as the barriers for the optimal effectiveness of health products, such as existing drugs or vaccines against these diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to improve the health and welfare of people who live in slums. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. 1) To develop a partnership between the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), African researchers in Uganda and Tanzania, health policy makers and programme managers, patient groups and community representatives and engage with other stakeholders to conduct research that has maximum immediate benefit on patient outcomes in Africa. 2)  To develop and strengthen capacity in NCDs and in research methods, particularly in epidemiology, statistics, health economics and social science, both at LSTM and at our partner institutions in Africa. 3) To conduct early phase (pilot) studies and assess how diagnostic and treatment services for HIV infection, diabetes and hypertension should be integrated at health facilities, how these integrated services should be decentralised, how task-shifting should be organised and how patients should be supported and monitored.
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in South Asians A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to translate scientific discoveries and technological innovations into sustainable improvements in healthcare, to deliver improved prevention and better treatment of both diabetes and heart disease, amongst people from South Asia. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. 1) Strengthen disease surveillance for type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease to assess needs, priorities and performance.  2) Prioritise interventions for prevention, early detection and management of type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, taking account of efficacy, scalability, sustainability and equity. 3) Develop capacity at Centres of Excellence, in regional Translational Research Networks, and through high-quality training. 4) Support frameworks for dissemination and implementation (policy, guidelines, pathways, standards)
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain and Spine Injury (ABSI) The NIHR Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain and Spine Injury (ABSI) aims to build on the work of our previously funded NIHR global health project which focused on neurotrauma. In addition to examining brain injury, this project has been expanded to include a number of other conditions namely traumatic spinal injury, stroke, brain infection and cerebrospinal fluid disorders and hydrocephalus. To structure the project it has been divided into four themes: mapping care, understanding care, generating and implementing knowledge and capacity building. The project will be managed by 2 lead directors, Professor Peter Hutchinson in the UK and Professor Anthony Figaji based in South Africa. In addition there are 26 coapplicants and a further 18
collaborators from a wide range of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania, Zambia, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. There is a diverse range of research studies and methodologies within each theme which will be based mainly in the LMIC collaborating sites and overseen by the central management team in the UK and South Africa. The majority of the projects will complete enrolment within 3 years with the final year reserved for preparing reports and dissemination of the data. The aim of the project is to significantly influence health policy. Furthermore the networks and partnerships created will establish a sustainable platform for global health researchers to continue for years to come. 1. Expand the previously funded NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma (focus on traumatic brain injury) to focus on the four overarching themes (Mapping care; Understanding Care; Generating and implementing innovation; Capacity building) consisting of five conditions (traumatic brain injury, traumatic spine injury, stroke, brain infections, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF disorders/hydrocephalus) causing a substantial burden of disease in LMICs
2. Create training and educational opportunities for LMIC researchers and establish a global health fellowship exchange programme
3. Ensure nurses, allied health professionals, and patients are an integral part of the working group and lead in developing the projects – an area in need of development in LMICs.
Health Policy and Systems Research responding to the climate crises: lessons from countries A collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to support a call for proposals for low- and middle-income country (LMIC) case studies examining how health systems are responding to the climate crisis at the national or sub-national levels. Informed by  qualitative data from key country stakeholders, research teams will develop analytical case studies in collaboration with national policy-makers as they attempt to adapt to, mitigate and build broader resilience to the ongoing climate crisis.

This collaboration will support a total of twelve country case studies and associated costs for the Alliance secretariat. These country case studies will:
- Identify and document  examples where health  system policymakers  and managers are actively responding to climate change, trying to mitigate climate change, as well as adapting  health systems and  improving  health policies and broader  resilience in collaboration with national health policymakers; 
- Share lessons from countries across WHO regions; 
- Synthesize evidence  contributing to the  development of improved guidance on  how countries can overcome existing barriers, respond to the climate crisis and move towards climate-resilient and low carbon sustainable health systems.
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Burn Trauma A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to transform the standard of burn care and prevention in some of the poorest regions of the world using a systems-based approach backed by implementation science. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. 1) Building robust partnerships with national and international academic departments, global institutions and clinical burns services. 2) Developing a portfolio of high quality evidence-based research to identify and address the key priorities in global burn injury, with particular focus on resource-poor settings. 3) Advocating for effective, evidence-based regional and national policies for burn prevention and treatment. 4) Working in partnership with key policy-makers, funders and philanthropists to increase resource allocation to tackle the ’forgotten global public crisis’ of burn injuries. 5) Utilising implementation science and knowledge to action theory to support the scaling up of proven interventions and promote their integration into national health strategies. 6) Creating a global hub for aspiring clinicians and researchers dedicated to global burn care to exchange ideas, share innovations and work in an inspiring and interdisciplinary environment.
NIHR RIGHT 5: Warning system for Extreme weather events, Awareness Technology for Healthcare, Equitable delivery, and Resilience (WEATHER). A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) collaborative research partnership between the University of the West of Scotland and the University of KwaZulu-Natal that aims to develop an early warning system for extreme weather such as flooding in two vulnerable districts; eThekwini and Ugu districts of KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. 

Due to commence in January 2024, this four-year award consists of four work packages which work together to assess the relationship between extreme weather and health risk due to water contamination and associated disease outbreaks. The research will investigate predictive disease modelling and develop an early warning system to improve communication between affected communities and central healthcare providers from existing mobile phone platforms in conjunction with predictive technology. This includes the design, development, pilot adaptation, and testing of a pathogen and contamination management tool to inform the development of the early warning system and for identification and management of resources during flooding. The disease burden, health needs, and community experiences during flooding and health system resilience to respond to flooding will be assessed through a mixed methods approach. 

The early warning system will enhance communication, resource allocation, predict disease outbreaks and improve healthcare service delivery during flooding. The project has seven objectives:

1. To develop a community engagement and co-creation strategy informing Objectives 2-7.

2. To assess the relationship between the health risk agents and reported disease outbreaks of extreme weather events. 

3. To map and review healthcare delivery organisations to establish pre-existing capacity/ resilience and training needs. 

4. To develop an early warning system, pathogen and contamination management tool to be used by healthcare providers.

5. To support and deliver disaster management and intervention implementation training to health professionals.

6. To evaluate the impact of the early warning system on extreme weather event preparedness, system resilience and establish cost-effectiveness.

7. To build local research capability, strengthen knowledge transfer with other lower- and middle-income countries.
NIHR Global Health Research Unit: Action on Salt China (ASC) A UK and low- and middle-income country (LMIC) partnership that aims to reduce salt intake amongst the poorest and most vulnerable populations through research and public health programmes. This research has the direct and primary aim of improving the health, wellbeing and economic development of people in LMICs. To develop and implement a comprehensive, effective and sustainable national salt reduction programme in China, through a series of programme, with special focus in rural areas to achieve a 30% reduction by 2025 as set by WHO. The programmes will include: 1) A health education programme to increase salt awareness; 2) a community/school-based education programme to encourage individuals to reduce salt during cooking; 3) a programme to work with restaurants to reduce salt in restaurant food; and 4) a programme to reduce salt in pre-packaged food by setting targets, improving labelling and providing tools to help consumers choose lower-salt food. Community and family-based strategies will be adopted in all activities with the support of traditional and innovative education and promotion technologies.
NIHR HPSR-DA: Identification of research priorities for a safe systems approach to road safety in Nepal The death rate for road traffic injuries in Nepal is now estimated at 22.7/100 000, ranking Nepal as 30th of 195 countries worldwide (Global Burden of Disease 2019). This study will identify the priorities for road safety research that would support the development of a multi-sectoral ‘safe system’ for road users in Nepal. The World Health Organization has identified five ‘pillars’ of road safety; road safety management, safe roads, safe people, safe vehicles and having an effective post-crash response. Through existing networks we will engage up to 25 stakeholders for each of the five pillars. Interviews with each stakeholder will identify individual views on the evidence gaps. At a series of five workshops collated issues for each pillar will be discussed and ranked. The output will be consensus on the priorities for a programme of road safety research in Nepal. 1) Identify what research needs to be done, and what information needs to be found, to create a safe system for road users in Nepal. 
2) Identify 20-25 stakeholders whose experience and knowledge is relevant to each of the five pillars of road safety. 
3) Interview each stakeholder to identify what they think are the main gaps in our knowledge.
4) Collate the ideas from the stakeholders and present them at a workshop to which all of the stakeholders will be invited.  Support participants to rank the evidence gaps in order of importance and share the results and give everyone the chance to rank the list again. 
5) Generate a prioritised programme of research to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries in Nepal.
NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation: Call 3 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)'s third 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 3 supports equitable partnerships between LMIC and UK researchers to generate new research knowledge and evidence on interventions to improve outcomes for those affected by multimorbidity in ODA-eligible countries.
UK universities and research institutes were invited to submit applications including a co-applicant or joint lead applicant from an LMIC relevant to the research proposal. Research must be focused on improving the health and welfare of people in LMICs. The aims of NIHR RIGHT Call 3 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 affected by multimorbidity
2. Ensure that the research funded through this call strengthens capacity for research and knowledge exchange through development of equitable partnerships between researchers in the ODA-eligible countries and the UK
3. Promote interdisciplinary approaches to working, by specifically encouraging applications necessitating expertise and activities associated with a broad range of health-science disciplines, including but not limited to: clinical, health economics, statistics, qualitative and social sciences.