Gates Foundation: Grand Challenges Explorations

Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems.

This call’s topics:

Emerging Technologies for New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas: A set of rapidly-evolving technologies is changing the world and expanding the realm of the possible. These emerging technologies include – but are not limited to – artificial intelligence, materials science, wearable sensors, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, microscopy, augmented and virtual reality, geospatial mapping, robotics and DNA sequencing. Proposals that apply an emerging technology – or a combination of emerging technologies – for new and potentially transformative solutions in global health priority areas are relevant.

Environmental niches of Salmonella Typhi: This grant will fund proposals that examine the environmental niches of S. Typhi; studies of S. Typhi in the context of soil and water microbiomes, with clear implications for survival, virulence, or antibiotic resistance, examining survival of S. Typhi within or in the presence of free-living protozoan, examining the role of the environment (soil, water, residual antibiotics) in the development of AMR in S. Typhi, transcriptome analysis and mutagenesis of S. Typhi to identify genes associated with particular environmental niches. In all cases, the relevance of findings to the epidemiology of typhoid must be clear.

Increasing Demand for Vaccination Services: within this call to increase demand for vaccination services, and thus increase the number of children vaccinated globally, we are looking for innovative ideas in the following specific areas: (1)Novel approaches for providing practical knowledge about vaccines and vaccination services to caregivers, (2)Novel ideas for improving the convenience and/or caregiver seeking of vaccination services.

Funding for all opportunities: Awards of $100,000 USD are made for a grant period of 18 months and successful projects are eligible to receive follow-on funding of up to USD $1 million.

No overhead - please contact the research authority if planning to submit.

https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant-opportunities?f%5B0%5D=field_initiative%3A37073