PHA-Exchange> Grand Challenges in Global Health: Solicitation for Letters of Intent

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From: "Dieter Neuvians MD" <neuvians at mweb.co.za>

> Grand Challenges in Global Health: Solicitation for Letters of Intent
>  
> Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
>  
> Closing Date: 9 January 2004 
>  
> The Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative was established 
> by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with the 
> National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for the National 
> Institutes of Health, to support scientific and technological re-
> search that addresses critical scientific challenges in global 
> health and increased research on diseases that cause millions of 
> deaths in the developing world. The initiative, led by an inter-
> national Scientific Board, seeks the participation of the global 
> scientific community in addressing the "Grand Challenges" for 
> scientific exploration, focusing attention on the most critical 
> health problems in the developing world. Although there are enor-
> mous challenges that relate to poverty, access to health inter-
> ventions, and delivery systems in developing countries, this ini-
> tiative is focused on the grand scientific and technological re-
> search challenges in health.
>  
> The purpose of this announcement is to solicit Letters of Intent 
> (LOIs) from investigators interested in applying for funding to 
> address one of the grand challenges under the Grand Challenges in 
> Global Health initiative. A LOI is a mandatory first step in the 
> application process. Each LOI must address one, and only one, of 
> the selected grand challenges described on the Grand Challenges 
> website:
> http://137.187.206.85/subcontent.aspx?SecID=349
> LOIs on other topics will not be considered.
>  
> The grand challenges that have been chosen call for specific sci-
> entific or technological innovations that will remove a critical 
> barrier to solving an important health problem in the developing 
> world with a high likelihood of global impact and feasibility. 
> They ask for innovative research that will break through the 
> roadblock that stands between where we are now and where we would 
> like to be. Research that deals with the general topic of a grand 
> challenge without focusing on solving the specified problem, will 
> not be considered responsive, regardless of its merit.
>  
> Eligibility
>  
> For-profit, non-profit, academic, domestic and foreign institu-
> tions may submit LOIs.
> Individuals not affiliated with an institution are not eligible 
> to submit an LOI.
>  
> Contact details:
> Questions related to the programme may be addressed to:
> mailto:grants at grandchallengesgh.org
>