Here is a list of Research Projects that received grants for R2HC (Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises) Phase One. We have listed the titles, requested grant amount and objectives for the projects for your ease:
Title: Alternative Sanitation in Protracted Emergencies
Partners: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oxfam GB, UNHCR
Grant Request: £191,446
Objective: To determine the safety and acceptability of urine-diversion toilets (UDTs) in a large field setting in order to provide guidance on their use in humanitarian crises. UDTs can potentially provide an effective public health intervention in difficult environments where pit latrines are impossible.
Title: Effectiveness of an integrated humanitarian response delivery model in Niger
Partners: Save the Children, LASDEL (Niger), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Grant Request: £419,652
Objective: To explore the effectiveness of an integrated approach to multi-sector humanitarian programming. Specifically, the intervention will consist of using the operational platforms provided by health, nutrition, education, child protection and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to refer children to curative care; screen for malnutrition; vaccinate; and deliver health promotion messages.
Title: Evaluating an integrated approach to intimate partner violence and psychosocial health in refugees
Partners: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, UNHCR, Tanzania Red Cross, UNSW
Grant Request: £209,263
Objectives: To strengthen evidence for public health interventions in humanitarian settings through: (1) conducting the first randomized controlled trial of an integrated intervention that simultaneously targets intimate partner violence (IPV) and its psychosocial health consequences in a refugee camp in a low-income country; (2) increasing knowledge on task shifting, i.e. mental health interventions implemented by non-specialist staff in primary healthcare; (3) making available contextually adapted and piloted quantitative measures for use with refugees from DRC in Tanzania.
Title: Non-Communicable Disease Guidelines and mHealth Records for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Partners: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response
Grant Request: £257,885
Objective: To develop, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment guidelines and an mHealth intervention (consisting of a software application and a patient con‐trolled health record) on patient and provider compliance, quality of care, disease control and health outcomes among patients with hypertension and type II diabetes in three clinics supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Southern Lebanon.
Title: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of simplified psychological support in Pakistan
Partners: World Health Organisation, Human Development Research Foundation, Institute of Psychiatry,
Rawalpindi Medical College, Post Graduate Medical Institute, Lady Reading Hospital Peshewar.
Grant Request: £349,718
Objective: to help improve the mental health and functioning of people in humanitarian settings. We seek to contribute to this long-term objective by evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a draft WHO intervention manual that (a) is brief and based on existing evidence and (b) can be delivered by supervised paraprofessionals.
Title: Longer-term mental health, developmental and systems impact of ‘Child Friendly Space’ interventions in humanitarian emergencies
Partners: World Vision International, Columbia University
Grant Request: £ 323,309
Objective: To improve outcomes for children in humanitarian crises by strengthening the evidence base on the impact of Child Friendly Space interventions (CFS).
Rapid Response Grants
Title: Enhancing Community Resilience in the Acute Aftermath of Disaster: Evaluation of a Disaster Mental Health Intervention
Partners: University of Colorado, Soulaje Lespri Moun (SLM; Relief for the Spirit) Transcultural Psychosocial Organization – Nepal
Grant Request: £79,834
Objective: To evaluate a community-based disaster mental health intervention using a longitudinal randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. This culturally-adapted intervention is designed to mitigate the impact of an acute natural disaster among disaster-prone communities in Haiti and/or Nepal. This is accomplished by enhancing community resilience (specific psychological, social, and disaster risk reduction resources) enabling community members to intervene on their own behalf and provide assistance to others when a disaster strikes.
Title: Regional Anaesthesia for Painful Injuries after Disasters (RAPID) Study
Partners: Epicentre/Medecins Sans Frontieres, Brown University Department of Emergency Medicine
Grant Request: £ 107,566
Objective: to fundamentally transform the way serious injuries are managed after earthquakes and other disasters by introducing a novel, cost-effective, and locally appropriate method for pain control. This study will demonstrate that local medical providers can be trained to perform regional anesthesia safely and effectively.
For more information, please visit R2HC Second Call for Proposal.
