Global Health Research Centres Call 1 Stage 2 Committee Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the GHR Centres Call 1 Stage 2 Committee Meeting

Date and Location

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 09:45 and Thursday 10 March, 09:45 via Zoom Virtual Meeting

Attendance

Present Committee Members	-
Professor Faith Osier (Chair)	Executive Director of IAVI-Human Immunology Laboratory, London, UK
Professor Dilly Anumba (Deputy Chair)	Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Faculty Director of Clinical Academic Training, University of Sheffield, and Consultant subspecialist in Maternal/Fetal Medicine, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Ms Lillian Mutengu	Programme Manager, Community and Public Engagement, African Academy of Sciences (AAS)
Professor Eugene Sobngwi	Coordinator Specialist Training Cycle, Faculty of Medicine at University of Yaoundé and Yaoundé Central Hospital
Professor Ellis Owusu-Dabo (Day 2 only)	Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Professor Kara Hanson	Professor of Health System Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Lara Fairall	Director, Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town
Dr Catherine Kyobutungi	Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Professor Jennifer Knight-Madden	Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology & Clinical Research Caribbean Institute for Health Research - Sickle Cell Unit , The University of the West Indies
Professor Ravi Mehrotra	Adjunct Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of York
Dr Charan Verma	Associate Professor of Development Studies, Coordinator of Public Health Research, Giri Institute of Development Studies
Professor Tazeen Jaffar (between 9am and 12 noon)	Professor of Health Services & Systems Research Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Professor Lai-Meng Looi	Distinguished Professor, University of Malaya
Dr Benedict Weobong	Senior Lecturer in Social and Behavioural Sciences & Global Mental Health Epidemiologist, School of Public Health, University of Ghana
Professor Shams El Arifeen (Day 1 - morning only; Day 2 - full day)	Senior Director, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Professor Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath	Director, Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Dr Ruth Nsibirano	Senior Lecturer, School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University
Dr Pratima Murthy	Dr Pratima Murthy, Director and Senior Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore 560027, India.
Professor Richard Lilford	Professor of Public Health, University Of Birmingham
Dr Alex Ezeh (Day 1 - full day; Day 2 - afternoon only)	Dornsife Professor of Global Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University

NIHR Secretariat	-
Dr Mike Rogers (MBE)	Assistant Director, Global Health Research,NIHR CCF
Dr Sylvia Anie	Senior Programme Manager, Global Health Research, NIHR CCF
Dr Chichi Ezenwa	Programme Manager, Global Health Research,NIHR CCF
Mr Bryan Paolo Dar	Senior Research Officer, NIHR CCF
Mrs Kathryn Rumney	Operations Manager, NIHR CCF
Ms Bronwyn Mathews	Research Officer, Operations, NIHR CCF
Ms Genis Fernandes	Research Officer, Operations, NIHR CCF

Observer	-
Ms Katie Robertson (Day 1; Day 2 afternoon)	Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC
Ms Alison MacEwen	Head of Global Health Research Programmes, DHSC
Dr Stephanie Russell (Day 1 afternoon; Day 2)	Global Health Research Programme Manager, DHSC
Mr Conor Temple (Day 1; Day 2 afternoon)	Global Health Research Programme Manager, DHSC
Dr Val Snewin (Day 1 final application, Day 2)	DHSC
Ms Razina Hussain	Programme Manager, CEI, NIHR CCF
Ms Marcia Green	CEI, NIHR CCF
Gochi Nwulu (09 March afternoon only)	NETS
Karen Fernando	NIHR Academy

Welcome, Apologies and Introductions

• The Chair officially welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced herself. All attendees introduced themselves.
  Apologies were received from Professor Paulo Pitrez.
• The secretariat and DHSC colleagues gave an introduction to the scheme which was followed by a general discussion of the Stage 2 review process.
• The Chair outlined the agenda for the day.

Background and scope of GHR Centres

Ms Alison MacEwen, Global Health Research Programme Manager at the Department and Health and Social Care, provided a brief background of Global Health Research Centres Call 1 followed by an overview of the Scope of the Global Health Research Centres Call by the Global Health Research Centres Lead, at the NIHR Central Commissioning Facility, Dr Sylvia Anie, and the Global Health Research Programme Assistant Director at the NIHR Central Commissioning Facility, Dr Mike Rogers (MBE).
After the briefing, a short video on Unconscious Bias was presented to the Committee followed by a demonstration of Zoom voting by the CCF Secretariat (Ms Bronwyn Mathews)

Stage 2 Assessment Process

The Chair of the Global Health Research Centres Funding Committee, Professor Faith Osier informed the Funding Committee about the process for assessing the applications, the scoring, ranking and the feedback process. The purpose of the meeting was to make recommendations on which applications should be funded to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

The following Stage 2 applications were discussed by the Committee and invited to progress to fund or reject.

Reference: NIHR203264: NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Control of Non-Communicable Diseases in Vulnerable Women Across the Life Course)
Conflicts: Professor Lara Fairall and Dr Pratima Murthy
Final Outcome after ranking: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected

Reference: NIHR203272: The NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Heart, Mind and Body
Conflicts: Professor Tazeen Jafar, Dr Pratima Murthy and Professor Shams El Arifeen
Final Outcome after ranking: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Rejected

Reference: NIHR203266: NIHR Global Health Research Centre on the Community Management of Long Term Conditions
Conflicts: None
Final Outcome after ranking: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding

Reference: NIHR203247: NIHR Global Health Research Centre on NCDs and Environmental Change
Conflicts: Professor Tazeen Jafar, Professor Pratima Murthy, Professor Shams El Arifeen and Professor Faith Osier (RMS)
Final Outcome after ranking: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding

Reference: NIHR203262: NIHR Global Health Research Centre of Cardiopulmonary Health in Southern Africa (CCHiSA)
Conflicts: None
Final Outcome after ranking: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected

Reference: NIHR203257: NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Multiple Long-Term Conditions
Conflicts: Professor Richard Lilford, Dr Pratima Murthy and Professor Lara Fairall (declared during meeting)
Final Outcome after ranking: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding

Reference: NIHR203248: Centre for Improving Mental and Physical health And building research CapaciTy: Centre for IMPACT
Conflicts: Professor Tazeen Jafar, Professor Richard Lilford and Dr Pratima Murthy
Final Outcome after ranking: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding

Reference: NIHR203258: NIHR Global Health Research Centre on NCDs in primary care in South America
Conflicts: Dr Richard Lilford
Final Outcome after ranking: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected

Reference: NIHR203260: NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Perinatal metabolic and mental health
Conflicts: Professor Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Professor Richard Lilford, Dr Pratima Murthy and Professor Catherine Kyobutungi
Final Outcome after ranking: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected

Reference: NIHR203246: Global Health Research Centre on Strengthening of Capacity for NCD control in West Africa (Stop-NCD)
Conflicts: Professor Kara Hanson, Professor Pratima Murphy and Professor Ellis Owusu-Dabo
Final Outcome after ranking: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding