The Round 6 of the Grand Challenges Explorations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now open to accept applications, providing grants of up to $100,000.
The Grand Challenges Explorations is an opportunity for researchers around the world to submit proposals providing innovative solutions for improving global health. The program is a $100 million grant initiative from the Foundation to encourage bold and unconventional global health solutions.
The initiative focuses on areas where creative, unorthodox thinking is most urgently needed. For this round, applicants are asked to focus their proposals on these five topic areas:
- Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
- Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
- Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Conditions;
- Create New Technologies for the Health of Mothers and Newborns;
- The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication.
The topic focusing on sanitation technologies highlights the integrated approach the foundation is taking toward health in developing countries. Improved sanitation is essential to reducing water-borne illnesses and has profound economic, educational, and social benefits.
The selected proposals are awarded with an initial grant of $100,000. Projects which show success will be provided with an additional grant of $1 million. Applications submitted should not be more than two pages and the preliminary data about the proposed research is not required.
The deadline to submit the proposal is 2 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
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Our organization is focusing on the changing of lives of the vulnerable women and girl child through empowering them with their rights using a rights based approach.Our region has suffered a lot of insurgencies that have caused violations,abuses of their rights to the extent that many a human face of woman is now suffering from diseases such as HIV&AIDS, CANCER of breast and cervic. They were gang raped and defiled and many forced into early marriages and prostitution.There is a lot of trauma among our community in Uganda.I am impressed with your work and the types of problems you address.Can we send you our proposal? Kind regards,Alupo Engole Cecilia, Coordinator TEWPA.
GEMACCADET is youth organization in Malawi workig with young people in different activities especially on HIV/AIDS, Orphan program, People living with AIDS and environmental conservation. And we are therefore eligible to apply for this grant see your tremendous job you are doing
Centre for Educational Development in Health Arusha CEDHA)is a MoH and socialwelfare institution aimed at strenghthen human resource capacity in health care.The centre has been working in areas of reseacrh, teaching,plannning interventions to support districts in reaching communities. Martenal mortality rate is on incresed problem whereby we real need more strategies to involve communities
in minimize or reduce its impact
and Diseses such as HIV&AIDS
The need for the grants is crucio to migrants Maasai in our zone
Best regards
Evelyn Ndowo Koka
Arusha Tanzania