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The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) has opened its fourth research call.
The alliance will be funding research into mental health. The call is ambitious in scale and size and will be supported by the majority of GACD member funding agencies. For the first time, many of them will be accepting applications through a common submissions portal, which will be a first for the GACD.
More information and application information
The joint call will fund interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and/or vulnerable populations in high-income countries (HIC), which will look to improve the management of disorders including depression, dementia, schizophrenia and bi-polar affective disorders.
Proposals should focus on implementation science research in LMICs and/or vulnerable population within HICs, by building on interventions with proven effectiveness in effective, equitable and affordable ways.
The application deadline is 11 April 2017.
Dr Karim Berkouk, Research & Innovation DG, European Commission and Chair of the GACD Management Committee: “The Mental Health Call is the GACD largest investment to date. We encourage applications from as wide a pool as possible, who meet the criteria, as described in the call text. Through funding this unique research programme, the GACD will be offering a truly unique and global contribution to implementation science research, thus improving mental health worldwide.”
The GACD is an alliance of international funding agencies representing over 80 % of the world’s public health research funding and the first collaboration of its kind to specifically address non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Our member organisations include:
Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
The UK’s Medical Research Council
The US’s National Institutes of Health
The Indian Council of Medical Research
The South African Medical Research Council
The European Commission’s Health Directorate in the Research & Innovation DG
Mexico’s National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán
Argentina’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Thailand’s Health Systems Research Institute
São Paolo’s Research Foundation