[ Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA) | Research to support COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings ]

ELRHA is a UK-based global charity, established in 2009 to find solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation.

ELRHA is launching an urgent funding call for research proposals to support the COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings. The call aims to fund public health research that will produce robust findings that will contribute to the effectiveness of the current humanitarian response and increase the evidence base for future responses to similar infectious disease outbreaks.

Proposals will be eligible for research that targets:

• Refugees or IDPs in camps or urban humanitarian settings, or conflict-affected people in humanitarian settings in LMICs.
• Health systems and health care workers supporting the COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings in LMICs.

• Innovative solutions
• Supporting existing health care delivery
• Predicting outbreaks
• Social science behavioural research
• Co-ordination and sharing

• The lead applicant may be a research institution, a non-profit institution or NGO, a UN agency, or a public or government institution. The research team should include academic and humanitarian partners, as appropriate.
• Applicants can be based in any country in the world.

• Eligible costs: personnel costs, travel costs, costs related to data collection and analysis, reasonable equipment costs, and other items, so as to cover the full research costs in the relevant setting; dissemination and uptake of research findings; 10% overheads. Does NOT cover the costs of interventions.