The Early Career Grants Programme 2022 is open to applications from early career researchers and global health professionals based anywhere in the world, who have not had research funding in their own name before.
They can apply for a grant of up to £5,000 (GBP) to deliver a project over one year. The projects can be on any topic related to tropical medicine and global health, from across the research spectrum of lab, translation, implementation and policy. These may include:
- Neglected tropical diseases, with a particular focus on their overlap with non-communicable Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), with a particular focus on their overlap
with Non-Communicable Diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals - Malaria, with a particular focus on drug resistance
- One Health and wider planetary health. The consideration of human health alongside animal health and the environment, in the context of social, economic
and political factors - Topical issues including, but not limited to, emerging diseases
- Drug resistant infections
- Snakebite
- Mycetoma and other skin NTDs
- Co-morbidity and NCDs
- Coronavirus
- Climate change
Grant submissions are due on April 29, 2022. The maximum RSTMH Early Career Grant award is £5,000 for up to one year in duration. To apply for this grant, please go to: https://rstmh.org/grants
If you have a question about the scope and content of your proposal, please email amelia.fincham@RSTMH.org and tamar.ghosh@RSTMH.org.