Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges

Innovations in Immunization Data Management, Use, and Improved Process Efficiency; innovative ideas in the following specific areas:

-Innovative ideas for improving the measurement approaches for immunization data (e.g., process, equity, coverage indicators) with a focus on data use by program managers, triangulation across data sources, and methods to measure and quantify data use.

-Novel approaches for improving process efficiency that will lead to improved quality of service delivery.

Affordable, Accessible, and Appealing: The Next Generation of Nutrition;

Aim: to advance innovative technologies to enhance the availability and accessibility of affordable, nutritious foods for low-income consumers, working within the key constraint that these innovations must be relevant to market-based food systems in low and middle-income countries.

Tools and Technologies for Broad-Scale Disease Surveillance of Crop Plants in Low-Income Countries

Looking for proposals that:

-Offer an innovative and transformative solution for surveillance and early detection of crop pests and diseases;

-Offer potential for dramatic cost reductions or increases in efficiency or precision compared to current strategies;

-Be amenable to integration into a national or regional pest and disease surveillance and response system for crop plants;

-Have potential applicability to at least two of the following crops: maize, wheat, rice, millet, sorghum, cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, bananas, beans, cowpeas, chickpeas, and groundnuts;

-Convey a clear potential for achieving broad geographic scale.

Campylobacter spp. Transmission Dynamics in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Proposals responsive to this call will generate data to understand the sources of Campylobacter infection in children in LMICs, and the dynamics of transmission in LMIC communities of interest

Funding: Awards of $100,000 USD are made in Phase I.

Phase I awardees have one opportunity to apply for a follow-on Phase II award of up to $1,000,000 USD.