MERA – India Call for Proposals: Young Malaria Researchers
The aim of Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA)-India is to identify, articulate, prioritize and respond to the research needs of the country in a coordinated and combinatorial way to eliminate malaria from India by 2030. The vision of this trans-institutional research alliance is to generate evidence to support and accelerate malaria elimination in India. The overall goal is to bring together all stakeholders working on malaria including researchers, healthcare professionals, government and non-government organizations, public health representatives, policymakers at one platform.
After a successful Round 01 during 2019-20, MERA-India launches a special call for early-career malaria researchers in the second round to promote young investigators (less than 40 years) to carry out cutting edge malaria research (Operational/Implementation/ Public Health/ Translational) on the recommendation of MERA-India Expert Committee.
The MERA-India is inviting grant applications from Young Malaria Researchers (YMR) in the call. The alliance believes to encourage the young talent of the country who works in the field of malaria research. The aim of this call is to nurture YMR by providing them research grants under the mentorship of senior malaria scientists and supporting them to become independent researchers. With the intention of capacity building of young researchers in the country, the MERA-India provides a unique platform to YMR to express their research ideas and to develop them into fullfledged research proposals in the fields of:
- Operational
- Implementation
- Public Health
- Translational malaria research
Proposal deadline January 31, 2022.
