Funding Opportunities
Healthcare Infection Society Travel Grants The sponsor provides travel grants, which are primarily intended to enable trainees to attend meetings of educational benefit, particularly if research is to be presented. They may also be use to support visitors from overseas (eg. developing countries) who wish to undertake an attachment in the UK. Deadline(s): Ongoing
Gates (Bill and Melinda) Foundation Global Health Program The Foundation provides funding to ensure that their work in nutrition impacts many of the heath issues and is central to their success in helping all people lead healthy, productive lives. Deadline(s): Ongoing
Gates (Bill and Melinda) Foundation Nutrition Grants The sponsor's Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. Deadline(s): Ongoing
MAP International International Medical Fellowship The MAP International Missions Fellowship encourages experienced professionals to become involved in global health issues through service/learning opportunities that provide firsthand exposure to the health, social and cultural characteristics of a developing world community within a Christian context. Deadline(s): Ongoing
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement The award recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases or public health. Deadline(s): 04/30/2013
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award The award honors those individuals whose outstanding humanitarian efforts and achievements have contributed significantly to improving the health of humankind. Deadline(s): 04/30/2013
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Young Investigator Award The Young Investigator Award recognizes the work of young investigators and to encourage developing scientists to pursue careers in various aspects of tropical disease research. This award is given for work presented at the annual scientific meeting. Deadline(s): 05/02/2013
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Elsevier Clinical Research Award The Elsevier Clinical Research Award recognizes excellence in research presented by a student at the annual meeting. Deadline(s): 05/02/2013
Grand Challenges Explorations Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals for its latest application round. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies. Deadline(s): 05/07/2013
Grand Challenges Brazil Partnership This program seeks to develop new ways to prevent preterm birth; to improve the survival, health, and development of preterm infants; and to scale-up known effective prevention and treatment options. Grants will be to Brazilian researchers, but partnerships including those with researchers in other countries are encouraged. Deadline(s): 05/07/2013
Robert E. Shope International Fellowship in Infectious Diseases Established in 2005, the Robert E. Shope International Fellowship in Infectious Diseases honors his significant contributions in the areas of arbovirology and emerging infectious diseases. Recipients inspired by Dr. Shope will involve themselves in studies of arbovirology and/or emerging diseases from clinical to field to laboratory studies. Deadline(s): 05/22/2013
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/DHHS National Undergraduate Student Program: A Public Health Workplace Experience to Increase Student Interest in Public Health (OMHHE) announces the fiscal year (FY) 2011 availability of approximately $3.2 million per year for five (5) years to enhance CDC?s ability to eliminate health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations by supporting national public health workforce development for up to five (5) cooperative agreement awards. These awards will support a summer program for undergraduate students in public health careers and other health professions, including those underrepresented in health professions; a national undergraduate student coordination center that will provide support and coordination across the grant recipients in order to allow accomplishment of the overarching program goals; and the James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship program for graduate students. Deadline(s): 05/23/2013
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH/DHHS Genomic Centers for Infectious Diseases (U19) (NIAID) invites applications to establish 2-3 Genomic Centers for Infectious Diseases as a collaborative program that will utilize a combination of next generation sequencing and related genomic technologies, bioinformatics capabilities and computational analyses to understand infectious diseases, with a focus on the pathogen and its interaction with the host. The knowledge generated, including research data, analytical software tools, computational models, experimental protocols, and reagents, is expected to be widely disseminated to the scientific community through publicly accessible databases and reagent repositories. Deadline(s): 05/24/2013
National Institute of General Medical Sciences/NIH/DHHS Modeling of Infectious Disease Agent Study Research Projects (U01) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) invites applications that propose to provide the U.S. scientific and public health communities better resources, knowledge, and tools to improve their ability to prepare for, identify and prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Research projects will become part of the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) network. Deadline(s): 06/18/2013
Fogarty International Center/NIH/DHHS Training Programs for Critical HIV Research Infrastructure for Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions (G11) National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites U.S. institutions with research collaborations at low-and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions to submit applications for training programs to strengthen the leadership and expertise in selected critical research infrastructure areas at their collaborating LMIC institutions. Deadline(s): 06/24/2013
Fogarty International Center/NIH/DHHS Fogarty HIV Research Training Program for Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions (D43) National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites applications for research training programs to strengthen the HIV research capacity at low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions. Each application should propose a training program that will build or strengthen research capacity in an applicant-defined HIV-related scientific topic at an identified LMIC institution. Deadline(s): 06/24/2013
Conservation, Food and Health Foundation Grants Program The foundation helps build capacity within developing countries in its three areas of interest with grants that support research or projects that solve specific problems. The foundation supports projects that demonstrate strong local leadership, promote professional development in the conservation, agricultural, and health sciences; develop the capacity of local organizations; and address a particular problem in the field. It prefers to support projects addressing underfunded issues and geographic areas. Deadline(s): 07/01/2013
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH/DHHS Evaluation of the Latent Reservoir in HIV-Infected Infants and Children with Early Antiretroviral Treatment and Virologic Control (R01) NICHD and NIAID invite applications that propose to conduct studies of the latent reservoir in HIV-infected children who have had early treatment (antiretroviral therapy initiated at <6 months of age) and have had continuous viral suppression. These studies can be in developed or developing countries. Studies to create new or adapt existing animal models of perinatal HIV infection and early treatment can also be proposed. Deadline(s): 07/30/2013
Council for International Exchange of Scholars Fulbright Program - Africa - Botswana - HIV/AIDS The sponsor provides a teaching/research award tenable at the department of scholar's specialization or Center for the Study of HIV and AIDS, University of Botswana, Gaborone. Deadline(s): 08/01/2013
Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Working closely with other US Department of Defense elements, US Unified Combatant Commanders, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, university collaborators, and other nongovernmental organizations, DHAPP assists countries in establishing HIV/AIDS prevention,care and treatment programs and/or strengthening other capabilities to combat HIV. Deadline(s): 09/30/2013