Five Early Career Global Health Research Projects Selected for Funding
Five research projects working on locally and regionally relevant global health topics were selected for funding as part of capacity building in the CARe project. The projects will be facilitated by early career researchers in Sub-Saharan African countries.
In June this year, the CARe project (Capacity Building in Applied Public Health Research in GHPP partner countries) issued a call for project proposals whose aim was to build capacity in developing and facilitating public health research in Sub-Saharan Africa. More than 270 applications were submitted in response to the call, many of which were of very high quality. We are glad to announce that five of the very high-quality proposals, three from Nigeria and two from Uganda, were selected for funding after an intense review process. Two projects focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), one on dementia care, one on health system improvement and one on HIV prevention.
The first project aims to evaluate the level of awareness, understanding, and attitudes regarding AMR in Nigeria and applies participatory action research to find solutions to raise awareness on the subject. The second project intents to evaluate how the needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations are addressed in AMR national action plans of the 13 Economic Community of West African States countries. The third project focuses on developing and pilot testing the feasibility and effectiveness of a training intervention for informal caregivers of elderly persons with dementia in rural Uganda. The fourth proposal targets to enhance the performance and accountability of public secondary hospitals in Nigeria. The idea is to develop and implement a validated, tailored, context-specific Balanced Scorecard framework. The fifth project, which is from Uganda, aims to determine the uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylactic rings and assess the impact of short message service (SMS) and peer education on their uptake amongst females in discordant relationships in the country.
We would like to thank the applicants who submitted high-quality applications to the call. We also thank the reviewers, including the CARe Project Advisory Board Members, for reviewing the proposals.
