GHRI SWG - PILOT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
*1 page Letter of Intent due 17 July 2025*
The UAB CFAR Global Health Reciprocal Innovation (GHRI) Scientific Working Group (SWG) aims to promote bidirectional or reciprocal innovations in global health research and practice, with a focus on HIV or HIV-associated conditions. GHRI can be defined as bidirectional, iterative exchange of technologies, methodologies, interventions, and/or processes between low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs) to address shared health challenges. There is also recognition that there are common lived experiences between communities within the U.S. and in LMICs, which creates opportunity for collaboration to improve health globally.
Download Guidelines for the GHRI Pilot
Proposal Requirements
- Principle investigator (PI) or lead mentor must be faculty at UAB or at a LMIC institution (2024 World Bank Country Classification by Income)
- Includes at least one UAB faculty member on the team
- Includes at least one LMIC faculty or postdoctoral trainee on the team
- Includes more than one country in the study team and/or in the conduct of the research
- Must focus on HIV prevention, treatment, or an HIV-associated condition (please contact the SWG as needed to check if the proposal focus is within our scope)
- Must have a defined plan for how the pilot will build a foundation for a larger research/program in the future
Encouraged
- Activities that build and support new partnerships or new directions with existing partnerships
- Activities that will result in peer-reviewed publications
- Activities that will result in a larger collaborative funding proposal/project in the future
- Activities that bring innovations to low resource communities in Alabama
- Multiple PI (MPI) applications are strongly encouraged with investigators from LMIC institutions
Timeline:
- RFA Release: May 28, 2025
- Letter of intent (LOI) due: 17th July 2025, midnight CT
- Notification of invitations for full proposal: 1st August 2025
- Deadline for Full Applications: 19th September 2025, midnight CT
- Notification of awards: 24th October 2025
- Announcement of awards: UAB Global Health Symposium, October 29-30, 2025
- Earliest funding start: 1st November 2025