NIHR Global Advanced Fellowship

Focusing on global health security threats and challenges, funding will support applied research in the following focus areas:

Vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics for infectious diseases that have the potential to cause epidemics or pandemics. This includes applied research to evaluate innovations, and social, behavioural and implementation research to ensure that innovations are effectively adopted and scaled
Pandemic preparedness – including research to inform policy and operational decisions, evaluate countermeasures, strengthen health systems and workforce resilience, and address social and behavioural dimensions
Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) – with a particular interest in interventions that can be demonstrated to reduce the burden of AMR. This includes:
1. later-stage trials and social, behaviour and implementation research to scale innovative AMR interventions
2. applied clinical and systems research to reduce unnecessary antimicrobial exposure and optimise antimicrobial use
Infectious diseases of poverty – infectious diseases which disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and certain neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – particularly those of parasitic, vector-borne, or bacterial origin
Breaking the cycle between malnutrition (undernutrition) and infection.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the NIHR GAF page.