Grand Challenges Senegal Call for Proposals: Interventions to Enhance Epidemic Intelligence, Surveillance, and Outbreak Response
Grand Challenges Senegal is soliciting proposals from innovators working across Africa and African scientists in the diaspora on interventions to enhance epidemic intelligence, surveillance, and outbreak response.
The purpose of Grand Challenges Senegal is to advance the ecosystem for public health innovation in Africa. It will deploy grant funding to test new ideas led by innovators working in the region and African scientists in the diaspora. Grand Challenges initiatives are united by their focus on fostering innovation, directing research to where it will have the most impact, and serving those most in need. Grand Challenges Senegal will be no different and prioritize innovators that a) integrate across disciplines and converge solutions, b) prioritize Senegal as a setting to exemplify the work but with regional impact and potential for reach, and c) apply the very latest science into an ecosystem that is evolving into a hub for translational impact and production.
Scope:
- Advance life science innovation and public health in Africa
- Elevate the work and profile of Senegalese and African innovators in Africa and innovators among the diaspora across the globe.
- Deploy the Grand Challenges funding model in Africa, with a particular focus on the ECOWAS region
- Support the innovation pipeline from discovery to development to deployment
- Support existing grantees of Grand Challenges initiatives in Africa, particularly those supported by Grand Challenges Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Grand Challenges for Development USAID.
Ineligibility:
- Proposals that do not address one or more of the program areas
- Proposals that do not include an investigator based in Senegal or led by an ECOWAS national
- Proposals that do not focus on delivering the program in the ECOWAS region
- Proposals that do not include both men and women in the submission
- Proposals that do not advance original work
- Proposals that are submitted from individuals without an institutional partner or affiliation
- Proposals unwilling to align with the Grand Challenges Senegal equitable access policy
Funding details:
- Up to 8 proposals will be supported with a grant of $50,000 over a period of 18 months
- On completion, successful projects will be eligible for assistance with additional resource mobilization, project planning and grant monitoring.
Your application may be submitted in English or French. Click here to apply.
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Application deadline January 31, 2023. (Future calls October 2023)
