Funding news for global health researchers: June 3, 2024

On behalf of the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the following funding opportunities, notices and announcements may be of interest to those working in the field of global health research. Updates are typically distributed once a week.

Special Announcements

McGill Opens Nominations for Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award

Through the Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity, McGill University wants to identify, honor, and promote champions who have dedicated their lives to achieving health equity in the most challenging circumstances. The award could be given to an individual who has worked to improve access to healthcare or access to health products (e.g. vaccines or medicines) in equity-denied communities. It could also be given to someone who has mobilized others, and/or helped build a local or national movement for health equity.

• More information
  
• Submission deadline: July 15, 2024

Featured Upcoming Event

The Barmes Global Health Lecture returns June 5

After a four-year hiatus, the David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture series is back!

• Topic: Global HIV/AIDS Response: Then, Now, Future
• Speaker: Ambassador Dr. John Nkengasong, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy.
• Date/Time: Wednesday, June 5 at 1 p.m. ET (USA)
• Location: NIH campus, Bethsda, MD (USA) and Virtual
• Registration & information
  

Upcoming Deadlines for Fogarty Funding Opportunities

• Bioethics
  Application deadline: June 6, 2024
  
• Chronic, Noncommunicable Diseases and Disorders Research Training
  Application deadline: July 15, 2024
• Global Infectious Disease Research Training
  Application due date: August 6, 2024
• Fogarty HIV Research Training
  Application deadline: August 22, 2024
  

Upcoming deadlines for all Fogarty funding opportunities

Funding opportunities on which Fogarty is a partner:

• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-22-106)
  Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcement.
• Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-22-109)
  Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcement.

Administrative supplements for current grantees:

Current Fogarty grantees can apply for supplementary funds via the notices below:

• Administrative Supplements to Promote Research Continuity and Retention of NIH Mentored Career Development (K) Award Recipients and Scholars
  Application due date: June 30, 2024
• Administrative Supplement for Continuity of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Among First-Time Recipients of NIH Research Project Grant Awards
  Application due date: June 30, 2024

All administrative supplements

Funding Opportunities

NIH funding opportunities focusing on global health and foreign collaboration:

• Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-AI-24-006)
  Application due date: June 21, 2024
  
• Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) Network Coordination Center (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-AI-24-016)
  Application due date: June 21, 2024
• Feasibility of Novel Diagnostics for TB in Endemic Countries (FEND for TB) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-AI-24-010)
  Application due date: June 28, 2024
• Limited Interaction Targeted Epidemiology: Epidemiology of Transmission and Treatment of HIV Among People Who Are at Increased Risk for HIV Infection in Latin America (LITE-LA) (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-AI-24-009)
  Application due date: July 30, 2024
  

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign organizations and/or foreign components of U.S. organizations may apply:

• BRAIN Initiative: Brain-Behavior Quantification and Synchronization – Transformative and Integrative Models of Behavior at the Organismal Level funding opportunities:
  • U01 Clinical Trial Optional (RFA-DA-24-040)
    Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcement.
  • U01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed (RFA-DA-24-041)
    Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcement.
• Establishing a Center for the Advancement of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Pharmacotherapeutics (U54 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) (RFA-DA-25-056)
  Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcement.
• Early-Stage Dissemination and Implementation Research in Communication Disorders (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-DC-24-008)
  Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcement.

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign components may apply:

• Functional Target Validation for Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-NS-25-011)
  Application due date: Multiple dates, see announcement.

Other Funding News

Other funding updates that may be of interest to global health researchers.

General NIH notices:

• Notice to Alert the Public of NIDA's Career Development Award Salary Limits (NOT-DA-24-032)
• Updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications for Due Dates on or After January 25, 2025 (NOT-OD-24-129)

Notices of changes to NIH funding opportunities:

• Notice to Extend Expiration Date for PAR-21-084 "NIDCR Small Grant Program for New Investigators (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" (NOT-DE-24-019)
• Notice of Cancellation of the June 18, 2024 Application Receipt Date for RFA-EY-23-001 "BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21) (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" (NOT-EY-24-007)
• Notice of change to PAR-23-060, Formative and Pilot Intervention Research to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes (R34 Clinical Trial Optional) (NOT-MH-24-320)
• Notice of Change to PAR-23-061 and PAR-23-062, Innovations to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes (R01/R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (NOT-MH-24-321)

NIH Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs):

• Mechanisms Driving Obesity and Prostate Cancer Risk (NOT-CA-24-056)
  Expiration date: September 8, 2025
• High-Priority Interest to Enhance Data Science Research Training in Addiction Research (NOT-DA-24-029)
  Expiration date: May 8, 2027

Non-NIH funding opportunities:

• The WHO Health Ethics and Governance Unit invites proposals designed to help facilitate the promotion of ethically sound and equitable climate and health research. Proposals should clearly identify intended outputs and outline how these can support the development of ethical research into health and climate change.
  Applications deadline: June 17, 2024
• Wellcome is providing funding for multidisciplinary teams to generate evidence on where dengue and Zika viruses co-circulate and investigate the implications this has on host immune responses and clinical outcomes.
  Applications deadline: June 25, 2024
• The three-year NOMIS–STRI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Animal Behavior in the Tropics is seeking outstanding postdoc biologists to study animal behavior in Panama.
  Applications deadline: July 15, 2024
• The American Association for Cancer Research and AstraZeneca Endometrial Cancer Research Fellowship is accepting applications from postdocs to conduct endometrial cancer research.
  Application deadline: July 18, 2024
• Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund supporting small, early stage grants.
  Application deadline: July 25, 2024
• The L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Egypt Young Talent Program identifies and rewards talented young female scientists from Egypt working in life or physical sciences.
  Application deadline: July 31, 2024
• More non-NIH funding opportunities
  

Manuscript, Abstract & Poster Submission Opportunities

• The Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) is now accepting abstracts for an upcoming supplement to the journal titled “Differentiated service delivery – beyond HIV treatment for integration and other health needs”.
  • Submissions due: June 28, 2024
• Beyond Global Health has announced a call for submissions for art, poetry, prose, and photography to explore global health research, highlighting the human stories behind the data. Open to researchers, health professionals, artists, and anyone passionate about global health. Limit 1 submission per entry, maximum of 3 entries. Submissions should be original and previously unpublished and include a brief description of the submission with ethical considerations.
  • Submissions due: June 30, 2024
• AcademyHealth and the National Institutes of Health are accepting abstract submissions for the 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health. The 17th Annual Conference theme is “Moving Fast and Slow: Optimizing the Pace of Implementation”.
  • Submissions due: July 18, 2024
• The Pan African Medical Journal is welcoming papers for a special edition of related to all aspects of mpox in Africa, including epidemiology, research, clinical practice, outbreak investigation and response, and other relevant mpox data and activities in Africa.
  • Submissions due: November 30, 2024

Events

Events for global health researchers:

• Annual Conference For Advancing Participatory Science

  • Date: June 3-6
  • Location: Virtual
  • Hosted by the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences

• Second ARISE Scientific Conference

  • Date: June 4-7
  • Location: Hammamet, Tunisia and Virtual
  • Sponsored by the African Academy of Sciences

• Global HIV/AIDS Response: Then, Now, Future

  • Date: June 5
    
  • Location: Bethesda, MD (USA)  and Virtual
    
  • Speaker: Ambassador Dr. John N. Nkengasong
  • Part of the David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture series
  • Sponsored by Fogarty International Center and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

• Webinar on Updates to NIH Training Grant Applications

  • Date: June 5
  • Location: Virtual
  • Hosted by the NIH Office of Extramural Research

• 2024 Vector Encounter

  • Date: June 6-7
  • Location: Baltimore, MD (USA)
  • Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

• 2024 Global Health Catalyst Summit, USA

  • Date: June 7–9
  • Location: Washington, DC (USA)
  • Hosted by Johns Hopkins University

• CAR T-Cell Therapy Development in India

  • Date: June 13
  • Location: Virtual
  • Hosted by the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Global Health
  • Part of the Global Cancer Research and Control Seminar Series

• NIDA International Forum

  • Date: June 14
  • Location: Montreal, Canada
  • Hosted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH

Fogarty calendar of events