The Gates Foundation provides funding to organizations to achieve measurable impact in the fight against poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.

InterSurgeon is an online social network built with a matching algorithm that was set up with UAB support in 2019 to connect surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and NGOs worldwide to facilitate collaborations in global surgery. There are currently over 900 members and 45 NGOs from 107 countries, representing all surgical subspecialties, anesthesia, and nursing. Membership is free and all InterSurgeon members can download enterprise-level augmented reality software that can be used with smartphones, tablets, or smart glasses for real-time interactive video collaboration worldwide. 

Browse available research opportunities for physician scientists offered by the Heersink School of Medicine.

Fogarty's programs provide funding to perform research and to train researchers in a variety of global health areas. See program pages for status, eligibility, funding announcements and deadlines.

Many Institutes and Centers at NIH offer funding opportunities to support research on global health topics, or in areas relevant to global health.

The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to invite applications from research institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to provide senior administrators from these institutions with advanced training in the management of NIH grants. The goal is to improve oversight of NIAID grant awards and compliance with NIH funding policies and Federal research funding requirements for NIAID-supported foreign institutions in LMICs.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support applications for high-priority, regionally relevant infectious diseases research by international investigators in resource-constrained countries. Applicant organizations must be headquartered in foreign (non-U.S.) resource-constrained countries (i.e. low-income economies, lower-middle-income economies, and upper-middle-income economies by World Bank Classification). Applicant organizations headquartered in low- and lower-middle income economy countries are particularly encouraged to apply. Eligibility status of applicant organizations will be determined by the World Bank Classification list at the time of application submission.

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research focused on clinical epidemiology, evaluation of public and/or health care policies, and validation of measurements that address health and healthcare disparities related to non-communicable and chronic diseases (NCDs) with the highest disease burden and mortality in Latin America and among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos.

This directory includes international grants and fellowships in biomedical and behavioral research, providing information about additional funding opportunities available to those in the field of global health research.

The Department of Medicine Travel Award provides trainees with supplemental costs associated with attending and presenting their scholarly work at prestigious national or international conferences.

Learn more about UAB's travel guidelines.

UAB's Office of Research offers a number of pilot project funding opportunities, which can be found through this hub.