Minutes of the RIGHT Call 4 Stage 2 Funding Committee Meeting
Date and Location
Wednesday 9 February and Thursday 10 February 2023 via Zoom Virtual Meeting
Attendance
| Present Committee Members | - |
|---|---|
| Professor Tom Solomon (Co-Chair, Day 1 only) | Professor of Neurological Science, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, UK |
| Professor Nhan Tran (Co-Chair, Day 1 & 2) |
Head of Safety and Mobility, WHO |
| Professor Jo Wilmshurst (Co-Chair, Day 2 only) | Head of Paediatric Neurology, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Professor Pamela Abbott | Director of the Centre for Global Development, University of Aberdeen, UK |
| Professor Pascale Allotey | Director of the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, Malaysia |
| Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah | Director of the Conflict Medicine Program, Global Health Institute American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Center for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London, UK; Visiting Senior Lecturer, Conflict & Health Research Group, King's College London University, UK |
| Professor Marcello Barcinski | Visiting Researcher at the Center for Development of Health Technologies at the Fiocruz Foundation-Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Brazil |
| Dr Mary Chambers | Head of Public and Community Engagement at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Vietnam (Wellcome Africa Asia Programme), Vietnam |
| Professor Samath Dharmaratne | Chair Professor of Community Medicine and Consultant Community Physician, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| Professor Lisa Dikomitis | Professor of Medical Anthropology and Social Sciences, Kent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent, UK |
| Professor Rakhi Dondona | Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, USA |
| Dr Tsion Firew | Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, USA |
| Professor Liz (Elizabeth) Grant | Assistant Principal University of Edinburgh and Professor of Global Health and Development, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Associate Professor Li Yang Hsu | Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Professor Joe (Joseph) Jarvis | Professor of Tropical Medicine and International Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK |
| Dr Anthea Lesch | Senior Lecturer at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Professor Kath (Kathryn) Maitland | Professor of Tropical Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, UK |
| Professor Catherine (Sassy) Molyneux | Professor in Global Health at the University of Oxford, Senior Researcher at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kenya |
| Professor Nelly Rwamba Mugo | Associate Research Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington USA and the Center for Clinical Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute |
| Professor Wilson Odero | Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Maseno University, Kenya |
| Dr Eugênia Rodrigues | Former Regional Advisor on Road Safety, Pan-American Health Organization |
| Dr Rahul Shidhaye | Senior Research Scientist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, India |
| Professor Rod Taylor | Professor of Population Health Research, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit & Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Health and Well Being, University of Glasgow, UK |
| Ms Kriti Thapa | CEI Public Contributor, Nepal |
| Professor Neil Thomas | Regional Director, NIHR Research Design Service West Midlands and Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods in the Institute of Applied Health Research of the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, The University of Birmingham, UK |
| Ms Mable Tomusange | CEI Public Contributor, Uganda |
| NIHR Secretariat | - |
|---|---|
| Dr Mike Rogers (MBE) | Assistant Director, Global Health Research |
| Dr Louise Kim | Senior Programme Manager, Global Health |
| Dr Danilo Villanueva Navarrete | Programme Manager, Global Health |
| Dr Chichi Ezenwa | Programme Manager, Global Health Research |
| Mrs Kathryn Rumney | Operations Manager |
| Mr Bryan Paolo Dar | Senior Research Officer |
| Mr Curtis Dixon | Research Officer, Operations |
| Ms Bronwyn Mathews | Research Officer, Operations |
| Ms Genis Fernandes | Research Officer, Operations |
| Observers | - |
|---|---|
| Ms Stephanie Russell | Global Health Research Programme Manager, DHSC |
| Ms Harriet Drake | Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC |
| Katie Robertson | Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC |
| Ms Tafadzwa Kadye (Day 1 only) | Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC |
| Mr Conor Temple (Day 2 only) | Global Health Research Programme Manager, DHSC |
| Dr Bianca DSouza (Day 2 only) | Global Health Research Partnerships Manager, DHSC |
| Mr Ali Bham (Day 2 only) | Global Health Research Deputy Finance Manager, DHSC |
| Ms Alison MacEwen (Day 2 only) | Head of Global Health Research Programmes, DHSC |
| Ms Razina Hussain | Programme Manager, CEI, NIHR CCF |
| Apologies | - |
|---|---|
| Professor Moffat Nyirenda | Professor of Medicine (Global NCDs), NCD Theme Leader London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Uganda |
Welcome and Introductions
Professor Tom Solomon (Co-Chair) officially welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked them for serving on the RIGHT Funding Committee. The Committee introduced themselves.
Background and Scope of RIGHT Call 4
Ms Stephanie Russell gave an overview of DHSC’s global health research portfolio and Dr Mike Rogers summarised remit, scope of the call and the call assessment criteria (see slides). The Funding Committee was shown a short video on Unconscious Bias produced by the Royal Society.
Details and purpose of the meeting and process for assessing applications
Professor Nhan Tran (Co-Chair) informed the Funding Committee about the process for accessing the applications and the purpose of the meeting (i.e. to make funding recommendations to DHSC), followed by a demonstration of Zoom voting by the CCF Secretariat (Ms Bronwyn Mathews) (see slides).
All the global health generalists and subject matter expert Funding Committee Members scored all the applications, unless they were conflicted or absent. Two Community Engagement and Involvement Committee Members scored each application.
Assessment of Stage 2 applications
NIHR203230: Digital Innovations in Road Safety Data Network (DIRS-D)
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Elizabeth Grant
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
NIHR203062: Rwanda912: Use of an innovative electronic communications platform to improve pre-hospital transport of injured people in Rwanda
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Pamela Abbott, Professor Neil Thomas, Dr Tsion Firew
Funding Committee Recommendation: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding
NIHR203064: Sustainable solutions for drowning prevention in India: implementation and policy research (SUSTAIN-DP)
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Kath (Kathryn) Maitland
Dr Eugenia Rodrigues
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
NIHR203029: The Brazilian HIP FIT Study-Transforming Hip Fracture Care to Improve Patient Outcomes: The Brazilian Hip Fracture Guideline Implementation Toolkit
Conflicted Committee Member(s): None
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
NIHR203082: Burns Rehabilitation: A multidisciplinary program for burns management, treatment and prevention in low income countries
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Joe Jarvis, Professor Rod Taylor, Professor Lisa Dikomitis, Professor Moffat Nyirenda
Funding Committee Recommendation: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding
NIHR203117: PROGRESS: imPROvinG trauma care in low ResourcE SettingS
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Jo Wilmshurst, Ms Mable Tomusange, Dr Eugenia Rodrigues, Dr Tsion Firew, Professor Kath (Kathryn) Maitland (RMS), Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah (RMS)
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
Dr Nelly Mugo was absent.
NIHR203137: QUIILTS study: Quality Improvement Interventions for Low resource Trauma Systems: Injury care across three continents
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Dr Eugenia Rodrigues
Professor Pascale Allotey
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
NIHR203140: Preventing Deaths from Acute Poisoning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Conflicted Committee Member(s):Professor Samath Dharmaratne, Professor Elizabeth Grant
Funding Committee Recommendation: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding
NIHR203216: Drowning Prevention for newly mobile infants under 2 years in Bangladesh
Conflicted Committee Member(s): None
Funding Committee Recommendation: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding
Dr Nelly Mugo and Dr Tsion Firew were absent.
NIHR203147: Limb trauma & reconstruction in Kampala, Uganda: the socioeconomic burden and prospects for change
Conflicted Committee Member(s): None
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
Dr Nelly Mugo and Dr Tsion Firew were absent.
NIHR203074: Prevention of burn injuries in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC)
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Rod Taylor, Professor Neil Thomas (Professor Tom Solomon)
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
Dr Nelly Mugo and Professor Pascale Allotey were absent.
NIHR203164: Rural Sub-Saharan African Model for Post-Amputation Rehabilitation and Management: RAMP-RM
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Kath (Kathryn) Maitland
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
Dr Nelly Mugo was absent
NIHR203144: Drowning prevention in Lake Victoria fishing communities in Tanzania and Uganda: A mixed-methods study
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Joe Jarvis (Professor Moffat Nyirenda)
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
Dr Nelly Mugo and Professor Catherine (Sassy) Molyneux were absent.
NIHR203194: HIPCARE: a cluster randomised controlled trial with embedded process evaluation
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Samath Dharmaratne, Dr Eugenia Rodrigues, Professor Catherine (Sassy) Molyneux
Funding Committee Recommendation: Recommended for Funding
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding
Professor Elizabeth Grant was absent.
NIHR203159: Occupational injuries among formal and informal workers
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Professor Catherine (Sassy) Molyneux
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected
NIHR203223: Improving injury outcomes through community-based lifesaving decisions and actions in low resource settings
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Dr Tsion Firew
Funding Committee Recommendation: Rejected
Final Outcome: Rejected