AFRO-NETS> WHO Health Research Grants

["Miguel A. Gonzalez-Block" <alliancehpsr@who.int>]

WHO Health Research Grants
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http://www.who.int/evidence/alliance.htm

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research 
Small Grants Programme to Develop Health Policy and Systems 
Research Deadline: 14 July 2000.

Grants are available to contribute to improved health by encouraging 
relevant, valid, and sustainable research and its application to the 
health policy and management process.

Two types of grants will be awarded:

Young Researcher Grants

These grants aim to support the growth and potential of HPSR in the 
medium term by funding projects of young researchers working as part 
of a research team or students who are doing Masters or Doctoral 
level dissertations in a relevant subject. Close co-ordination will 
be sought between the academic and methodological support provided by 
the host programmes or senior researchers and Alliance training and 
grant requirements.

Research to Evidence Grants

These grants aim to strengthen capacity for the application of HPSR 
to the policy process. Financial support will be provided to experi-
enced researchers and policy/decision-makers to undertake short re-
search projects involving empirical study or analysis of existing 
data. These should take the form of an interaction between research-
ers and policy/decision-makers which fosters the production of evi-
dence for the policy process, such as a sabbatical period by an aca-
demic spent in a health-related institution with policy/decision-
making roles, or a part-time sabbatical period spent by a pol-
icy/decision-maker in an academic institution.

Besides financial support for research, grantees will be invited to 
participate in workshops for proposal development, writing up and 
communication of research results. 

WHO CAN APPLY

Young Researcher Grants: 
Applicants must either be working in a research group led by more 
senior researchers or enrolled in a Masters or Doctorate programme, 
in which case the proposed research project should be an integral 
part of the requirements for graduation. 

Research to Evidence Grants: 
Individuals based at health-related institutions may apply. Health-
related institutions or units may be involved in funding, advising, 
consultancy, administration, service provision, research, training, 
technology development or advocacy. Government and private institu-
tions are equally welcome. The applicant(s) should have or be able to 
establish collaboration with another institution or internal unit 
leading to the formation of a team with at least one researcher and 
one policy/decision-maker. The supporting member(s) of the team 
should endorse the letter of intent. Applications will be accepted 
only from institutions in developing countries, but teams including 
developed country institutions are eligible. 

For necessary details to prepare a letter of intent visit our web 
site or request the information from the manager.

http://www.who.int/evidence/alliance/call_for_proposals/indexframe_english.htm

Miguel A. Gonzalez-Block
Manager
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research 
Office No. 3148
World Health Organization
CH 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland
Tel: +41-22-791-2840
Fax: +41-22-791-4328
mailto:alliancehpsr@who.int

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