UKRI Call for Applications: Public health intervention development (PHIND)
This call from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) untitled Public health intervention development (PHIND) September 2021 aims to develop early-stage interventions for the UK or global public health issue. The proposal must focus on developing the intervention and can include qualitative and quantitative primary research and the development of theory and logic models; however, emphasis should be placed on developing the intervention. You can apply for up to £150,000.
Any UK-based researcher with an employment contract at an eligible research organisation, and researchers based at MRC units and centres, can apply for the Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND) funding opportunity. International co-investigators can be included if they provide expertise not available in the UK. You can include one or more industry partners as project partners in your application.
Co-production with relevant stakeholders, including users, is strongly encouraged and applicants should consider the incorporation of systems thinking to address public health challenges. It is justifiable to focus on just one aspect of a system as long as the wider system’s context is recognised, for example in the framework for evaluation.
Population level interventions, with a focus on non-health care settings (such as transport, education, employment, leisure and the built environment), are encouraged. “Population” is defined as a group of individuals an intervention may take place within, for example, schools, prisons, or larger communities and regions.
Examples of the focus of health related, population-level interventions include:
- transport, education, employment, leisure and the built environment
- healthcare settings are not excluded, but projects should demonstrate potential for improvement
- health of general, high risk or vulnerable populations.
Within the application, the following should be addressed:
- definition of the intervention
- a clear theory behind the proposed intervention
- specification of the form(s) and function(s) of the intervention
- identification of the individual components of the intervention and their inter-relationships
- how proposals should address continued refinements of interventions and sustainability
- scalability of interventions.
Your project will be funded for up to 18 months.
Read more here.
Applicantions deadline September 15, 2021.
