RSTMH Call for Applications: Small grants programme 2021

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The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) offers, with the Small grant programme 2021, early career researchers and global health professionals based anywhere in the world the opportunity to apply for funding in a topic related to tropical medicine and global health. The programme funds projects for up to one year in duration (£5,000) across the research spectrum, including lab-based, clinical, implementation and policy-related research.

The aim:

To develop the next generation of global health researchers by providing seed funding to enable them to generate preliminary data to secure follow-on grants and further their career.

Thematic areas:

  • Neglected tropical diseases, with a particular focus on their overlap with non-communicable diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Malaria, with a particular focus on drug resistance
  • One Health and wider planetary health
  • The consideration of human health alongside animal health and the environment, in the context of social, economic and political factors
  • Topical issues including, but not limited to, emerging diseases
  • Drug resistant infections
  • Also snakebite, mycetoma and other skin NTDs and other deep mycoses, co-morbidity and NCDs, coronavirus and emerging diseases.

Eligibility:

  • Anyone in their early career from any nationality based anywhere in the world can apply, to be able to:
    • Carry out research under supervision
    • Have the ambition to develop knowledge of research methodologies and discipline
    • Have demonstrated a good understanding of a field of study
    • Demonstrate the ability to produce data under supervision
    • Use critical analysis, evaluation and be able to synthesise new and complex ideas
    • Competently explain the outcome of their research and value thereof to colleagues
    • Not in a position to lead an independent research programme
  • Only RSTMH members can receive the funding. If successful, applicants who are not already members will be asked to join the Society.

Read more here.

Application deadline April 29, 2021.

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