[ Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science Pilot Programme | Research Funding ]
Event details
| Date | 19.01.2021 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its Grand Challenges partners established Grand Challenges to focus attention and effort on major global challenges, and to enable researchers to collaborate and address these in fast, innovative ways. ICODA – the International COVID-19 Data Alliance – is partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges programme to pilot the Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science initiative, supported by the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. This initiative seeks to support projects that harness the power of health data in a safe and trusted way to respond to the current COVID-19 pandemic and have impact, as well as to enhance global health data responses to health challenges of the future.
This pilot initiative is coordinated by ICODA and is an open funding call that seeks to identify and support research studies using health data to address major COVID-19 research questions. It also seeks to involve patients and wider communities in both study design and governance. While this is a global call, priority will be given to research proposals involving researchers from lower and middle-income countries (LMICs). The pilot initiative will be followed by a larger Request for Proposals to be launched late in 2021, and run by global Grand Challenges partners.
See the Request for Proposals for more specifications on funding priorities.
Funding: max. $100,000
Duration: 6-12 months
Eligibility: Applications are invited from researchers working in healthcare, academia, industry or research foundations, and will be welcomed from any geography, with priority placed on proposals that involve researchers from LMICs.
How to Apply: Submission is a two-step process: A short application is submitted first, then selected applicants will be invited in late January to submit a full proposal (due mid-February). Initial short applicants can be submitted here. Applicants invited to submit a full proposal must also submit a letter from their host institution; for this, please contact the Research Office.
Application Deadline: 19 January 2021 (24:00 UTC)
Further information
This pilot initiative is coordinated by ICODA and is an open funding call that seeks to identify and support research studies using health data to address major COVID-19 research questions. It also seeks to involve patients and wider communities in both study design and governance. While this is a global call, priority will be given to research proposals involving researchers from lower and middle-income countries (LMICs). The pilot initiative will be followed by a larger Request for Proposals to be launched late in 2021, and run by global Grand Challenges partners.
See the Request for Proposals for more specifications on funding priorities.
Funding: max. $100,000
Duration: 6-12 months
Eligibility: Applications are invited from researchers working in healthcare, academia, industry or research foundations, and will be welcomed from any geography, with priority placed on proposals that involve researchers from LMICs.
How to Apply: Submission is a two-step process: A short application is submitted first, then selected applicants will be invited in late January to submit a full proposal (due mid-February). Initial short applicants can be submitted here. Applicants invited to submit a full proposal must also submit a letter from their host institution; for this, please contact the Research Office.
Application Deadline: 19 January 2021 (24:00 UTC)
Further information
- More information can be found on the call website.
- The Request for Proposals document can be found here.
- For any other questions, contact the Research Office.
Practical information
- General public
- Free