Date: 4-5 October 2023
Venue
De Vere Latimer Estate, Church Lane, Latimer, Chesham, Buckinghamshire HP5 1UG, United Kingdom
Present members
Professor Dame Tina Lavender (Chair)
Professor Moses Chimbari (Chair)
Dr Suraj Bhattarai
Professor Umberto D'Alessandro
Dr Evelyn Gitau
Professor Ewen Harrison
Dr Romaina Iqbal
Dr Caroline Jones
Professor Nadira Karunaweera
Professor Crick Lund
Professor Blandina Mmbaga
Dr Francisco Oviedo Gomez
Professor Mayowa Owolabi
Dr A.G. Radhika
Professor Dame Louise Robinson
Professor Emily Rousham
Mr Rodrick Sambakunsi
Professor Nelson Sewankambo
Professor Andrew Shennan
Professor Peter Smith
Dr Bella Starling
Dr Pamela Wadende
Dr Benedict Weobong
Dr Savithri Wimalasekera
Professor Dong (Roman) Xu
Secretariat
Professor Kara Hanson
Dr Sarah Puddicombe
Mrs Maria Hassard
Dr Jason Horsley
Mrs Fay Habens
Dr Lisa Marsh
Mr Lewis Bradley
Ms Linda Welch
Mrs Natalija Edwards
Miss Asia Pracz (online)
Apologies
Dr Antonieta Medina-Lara
Professor Malabika Sarker
Observers
Miss Sara White (DHSC)
Quoracy information
- Voting members: 25/27(Emergency Quoracy = 13 = 50%)
- Voting members present on both days: 25 (92.6 %)
Day 1 - 4 October 2023
NIHR156700 - Towards patient centred care: Integrating TB and respiratory services in Africa (Jamilah Meghji, Jeremiah Muhwa)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Blandina Mmbaga
Decision: FWC
NIHR155974 - Developing And Integrating mobile community mental health Services In Ukraine (DAISI Ukraine) (Dennis Ougrin, Iryna Pinchuk)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: None declared
Decision: FWC
NIHR156363 - Nurturing the resilience of mobile youth to navigate health and wellbeing crises in southern Africa (Janet Seeley, Musonda Simwinga)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Nelson Sewankambo, Francisco Oviedo Gomez, Umberto D'Alessandro
Decision: FWC
NIHR156184 - Improving outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa (Angus Jones, Moffat Nyirenda)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Blandina Mmbaga, Nelson Sewankambo, Peter Smith, Antonieta Medina-Lara, Umberto D'Alessandro
Decision: FWC
NIHR156579 - POCUS4TB: NIHR Global Health Group on AI-assisted point-of-care ultrasound (AI-POCUS) for TB screening (Helen Ayles, Freddy Tinajeros)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Suraj Bhattarai, Peter Smith,
Decision: FWC
NIHR156179 - Reducing childhood mortality and morbidity from injuries in Tanzania and Zimbabwe (Kokila Lakhoo, Godfrey Muguti)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: None declared
Decision: FWC
NIHR156259 - Improving postnatal care in India (Alison McFadden, Paridhi Jha)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: None declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR156297 - NIHR Global Health Research Group Opt-AMR: Optimising Antibiotic Usage to Mitigate AMR (Joseph Valadez, Anjali Sharma)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Tina Lavender
Decision: FWC
NIHR156011 - NIHR Global Health Research Group on Vaccines to Control Respiratory Pathogens & AMR across Africa (VacAMR) (Robert Heyderman, Brenda Kwambana)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Benedict Weobong, Caroline Jones,
Decision: FWC
NIHR156750 - Improving fitness to face arboviral outbreaks in West Africa: development of community-led approaches for vector surveillance, control and risk prediction in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (David Weetman, Athanase Badolo)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Tina Lavender, Caroline Jones
Decision: FWC
NIHR155559 - NIHR Global Health Group on Musculoskeletal Injuries (Simon Graham, Linda Chokotho)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Umberto D'Alessandro, Tina Lavender
Decision: FWC
NIHR156365 - NIHR Global Health Research Group on Zoonotic Causes of Acute Febrile Illness (GHRG-ZAFI) (Siobhan Mor, James Tumwine)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Tina Lavender, Blandina Mmbaga
Decision: FWC
NIHR155950 - NIHR Research Group on birth related brain injury (Sudhin Thayyil, Mainga Hamaluba)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Tina Lavender, Umberto d'Alessandro, Evelyn Gitau, Andrew Shennan, Caroline Jones, Romaina Iqbal
Decision: Decline
NIHR156521 - Community Health Intervention through Musical Engagement (CHIME) for Maternal Mental Health (Lauren Stewart, Sarah Skeen)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Crick Lund, Umberto D'Alessandro, Benedict Weobong
Decision: FWC
NIHR156087 - NIHR Group on Environmentally Sustainable Hospitals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Aneel Bhangu, Abdul Ghaffar)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Ewen Harrison
Decision: FWC
NIHR156454 - Genomics Informed Clinical management and Surveillance of Tuberculosis in Asia (GenomICS4TB) (Taane Clark, Angkana Chaiprasert)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Umberto D'Alessandro
Decision: Decline
NIHR155573 - Dementia Care Equity gRoup (DemCareER) - Addressing inequities in dementia care by building community-based capacity: A global health research group (Clarissa Giebel, MARIA ZULUAGA)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Louise Robinson
Decision: Decline
NIHR156801 - Setting up the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide deaths, Suicide attempts and Suicide ideation for India (India Inquiry) (Pauline Turnbull, Rakhi Dandona)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Bella Starling
Decision: FWC
Day 2 - 5 October 2023
NIHR156261 - NIHR Global Group on COPD in primary care in South America (Breathe Well South America) (Rachel Jordan, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Savithri Wimalasekera, Romaina Iqbal
Decision: FWC
NIHR156915 - NIHR Global Health Research Group on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children: University of Birmingham/University of Cape Town in partnership with the Lancet Commission (Joht Chandan, Shanaaz Mathews)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Crick Lund
Decision: FWC
NIHR156384 - Preventing Hypertension in African Youth (PHAY): Piloting the implementation of WHO’s Best Buys (Esther Van Sluijs, Lisa Ware)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Pamela Wadende, Blandina Mmbaga
Decision: Decline
NIHR156406 - Interdisciplinary partnership to develop dengue control and management strategies in Bangladesh and Nepal (Shahaduz Zaman, Mohammad Sorowar Hossain)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Emily Rousham
Decision: Decline
NIHR156820 - Addressing the Commercial Determinants of Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (Jeff Collin, Karen Hofman)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Pamela Wadende, Evelyn Gitau, Ewen Harrison
Decision: FWC
NIHR156091 - Tackling Neglected Tropical Diseases to Benefit Africa (Francisca Mutapi, Gordon Awandare)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Blandina Mmbaga, Umberto D’Alessandro, Evelyn Gitau, Caroline Jones, Benedict Weobong, Ewen Harrison, Moses Chimbari
Decision: Decline
NIHR155993 - NIHR Global Health Research Group on ACCElerating Cancer Diagnosis in Sub-Saharan Africa (ACCESS) using liquid biopsies (Annette Schuh, Faraja Chiwanga)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Blandina Mmbaga
Decision: Decline
NIHR156417 - The Afya consortium: utilising health data science to tackle mental health stigma in crisis-affected communities in four sub-Saharan African countries (Bayard Roberts, Najib Isse Dirie)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Peter Smith, Umberto D'Alessandro
Decision: Decline
NIHR156161 - Developing a learning health system to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases in Thailand (Rohini Mathur, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Umberto D'Alessandro
Decision: FWC
NIHR156644 - NIHR Post-TB CARE (Centre for Assessment and Research Excellence) (Rein Houben, Brian Allwood)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Peter Smith, Umberto D'Alessandro
Decision: FWC
NIHR156569 - Dialogue-based interventions in Last Mile populations in rural Ghana: a mixed-methods approach to assessing knowledge, attitudes and practice to health (Michael Head, Victor Mogre)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: None declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR156156 - Improving the quality of maternal and newborn care in Indian public hospitals through research into context-appropriate interventions (Andrew Weeks, Shuchita Mundle)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Tina Lavender, Antonieta Medina-Lara, Andrew Shennan, Nelson Sewankambo
Decision: Decline
NIHR156442 - Community-based ear and hearing care (Mahmood Bhutta, Kwame Shanaube)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Rodrick Sambakunsi, Tina Lavender
Decision: FWC
NIHR156746 - Optimising Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response to prevent future deaths (Merlin Willcox, Alexander Manu)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Tina Lavender, Evelyn Gitau, Benedict Weobong, Umberto D'Alessandro
Decision: FWC
NIHR155931 - Improving diagnosis of paediatric respiratory conditions in sub-Saharan Africa (Jonathan Grigg, Rebecca Nantanda)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Blandina Mmbaga, Rodrick Sambakunsi, Romaina Iqbal, Tina Lavender
Decision: Decline
NIHR156234 - Improving Equity in Respiratory Disease Outcomes in Africa using Data-Driven Tools: EQUI-RESP-AFRICA (Igor Rudan, Obianuju Ozoh)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Savithri Wimalasekera, Ewen Harrison, Crick Lund
Decision: FWC
NIHR156467 - Virus Genomics for Outbreak Response (ViGOR) in Central/East Africa (Matt Keeling, Charles Agoti)
Chair: Tina Lavender
Conflict: Evelyn Gitau, Caroline Jones, Moses Chimbari
Decision: FWC
NIHR156745 - ACCELERATING NOVEL APPROACHES TO SEIZURES IN WOMEN AND GIRLS OF EASTERN SOUTH ASIA (Arjune Sen, Aliya Naheed)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Evelyn Gitau, Caroline Jones
Decision: Decline
NIHR156517 - NIHR Global Health Research Group on Racism and Social Inequalities in Mental Health in Brazil (ORI) (Lisa Dikomitis, Leny Trad)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Emily Rousham
Decision: FWC
NIHR156828 - Preterm pre-eclampsiA: PlAcental Growth factor testing for reduction of Adverse Outcomes (Andrew Shennan, Leandro De Oliveira)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: Umberto D'Alessandro, Andrew Shennan, Crick Lund
Decision: FWC
NIHR156299 - Global Health Research on Strengthening AMR Monitoring and Surveillance in East Africa (GlobalHR4AMRSea) (Jian Guo Zhou, William Shivoga)
Chair: Moses Chimbari
Conflict: None declared
Decision: Decline
NIHR156923 - Harnessing male peer networks to enhance engagement with HIV prevention: A research and capacity development programme to increase the uptake of HIV prevention services among men in Eastern Zimbabwe (Constance Nyamukapa, Frank Tanser)
Decision: Decline