Minutes of the Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) Call 2 Stage 2 Funding Committee Meeting.
Date and location
The meeting was held on 11 and 12 November 2019 at LGC Ltd, Grange House, 15 Church Street, Twickenham TW1 3NL, UK
In attendance
Funding Committee Members
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Name | Affiliation |
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Professor Tom Solomon (Chair) |
Professor of Neurological Science, Head of the Brain Infections Group, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, UK; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK |
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Professor Kalipso Chalkidou (Deputy Chair) |
Professor of Practice (Global Health), Imperial College London, UK; Director iDSI; Director of Global Health Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development |
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Professor Pamela Abbott |
Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Global Development, University of Aberdeen, UK |
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Professor Marcello Barcinski |
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Oswaldo Cruz Institute and Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Mr David Chandler |
Community and Public Involvement Representative, UK |
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Professor Prabha Chandra (Day 1 only) |
Head of Psychiatry at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), India |
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Mr Peter Ekiikina |
Community and Public Involvement Representative, Uganda; Executive Director, Foundation for Open Development |
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Professor Elizabeth Grant |
Director of the Global Health Academy and Assistant Principal for Global Health, University of Edinburgh, UK |
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Professor Oye Gureje |
Professor of Psychiatry and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
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Professor Catherine Harmer |
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK |
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Professor Eugene Kinyanda |
Head of the mental health project, MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda |
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Professor Marie-Louise Newell (Day 2 only) |
Emeritus Professor of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UK |
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Professor Moffat Nyirenda |
Professor of Medicine (Global Non-Communicable Diseases), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Head of Non-Communicable Diseases Phenotype Programme, MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Uganda |
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Mr Vijay Rajkumar |
Community and Public Involvement Representative, India |
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Mrs Una Rennard |
Community and Public Involvement Representative, UK |
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Dr Rahul Shidhaye |
Senior Research Scientist, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, India |
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Professor Daniel Smith |
Professor of Psychiatry (Mental Health & Wellbeing), University of Glasgow, UK |
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Professor Andrea Winkler |
Professor of Global Health, Director of the Centre for Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway; Senior Research and Specialist Neurologist, Head Munich Global Neurology Group, Co-director of the Centre for Global Health, Technical University of Munich Germany |
Apologies
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Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
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Professor Graciela Rojas |
Professor of Psychiatry, General Director Clinical Hospital, University of Chile, Chile |
Secretariat
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Name | Affiliation |
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Dr Sultana Choudhry |
Senior Programme Manager, Global Health, NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) |
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Dr Nicola Commander |
Senior Programme Manager, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
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Mr Bryan Paolo Dar |
Research Officer, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
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Dr Pauline Essah |
Senior Programme Manager, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
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Dr Chichi Ezenwa |
Programme Manager, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
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Dr Louise Kim |
Programme Manager, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
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Dr Mike Rogers |
Assistant Director, Global Health NIHR CCF |
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Dr Debbie Willis |
Senior Programme Manager, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
Observers
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Name | Affiliation | Attendance |
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Dr Alex Ademokun |
Head of Global Health Research Programmes, Science, Research and Evidence, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) |
Day 1 only |
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Mike Batley |
Deputy Director, Science, Research and Evidence, DHSC |
Day 1 only |
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Alison McEwan |
Global Health Research Programme Manager, DHSC |
Day 2 only |
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Aaronjay Tidball |
Global Health Research Programme Officer, Science, Research and Evidence, DHSC |
Day 2 only |
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Sabeena Subba |
Assistant Director Patient and Public Involvement & Engagement, NIHR CCF |
Day 1 only |
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Katalin Torok |
Senior Programme Manager, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, NIHR CCF |
Day 2 only |
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Mathew Bolton |
Research Officer, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
Day 2 only |
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Anneke van de Stege |
Research Officer, Global Health, NIHR CCF |
Day 1 only |
RIGHT Call 2 Stage 2 Applications considered
NIHR200802: Mental health service transformation for vulnerable children in South Africa and Pakistan
Conflicts: Professor Moffat Nyirenda
Outcome: Rejected
Professor Eugene Kinyanda was absent
NIHR200851: Evaluating the Impact of Group Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) In Lebanon and Kenya on child developmental outcomes, maternal Depression and the mother-child relationship
Conflicts: Professor Kalipso Chalkidou
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR200804: Ameliorating common mental health disorders in Indonesia: Designing and evaluating an evidence-based, primary care task-shifting intervention (The ADEPT study)
Conflicts: Professor Tom Solomon
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200839: Reducing the treatment gap for depression among people living with leprosy in India, Indonesia and Nigeria: An implementation trial of peer delivered psychological therapy.
Conflicts: Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Eugene Kinyanda, Dr Rahul Shidhaye
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200824: Improving outcomes for people with psychosis in Pakistan and India – improving the Effectiveness of Community-based care (PIECEs)
Conflicts: Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Eugene Kinyanda, Professor Prabha Chandra
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR200833: IMProving Access to mental health Care for young people in Pakistan (IMPACT)
Conflicts: Professor Prabha Chandra, Professor Tom Solomon
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200838: The implementation and effectiveness of a lay counsellor intervention for low mood as part of a programme of Integrated Care for Older PEople in three sub-Saharan African countries ICOPE-DEP
Conflicts: Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Eugene Kinyanda, Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Andrea Winkler
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200846: Transforming Access to Care for Serious Mental Disorders in Slums - the TRANSFORM Project
Conflicts: Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Eugene Kinyanda, Professor Tom Solomon
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR200806: Developing and evaluating an intervention based on behavioural activation for people with depression and diabetes multimorbidity in South Asia
Conflicts: Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Professor Marie-Louise Newell, Dr Rahul Shidhaye
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR200817: ENHANCE: Scaling-up Care for Perinatal Depression through Technological Enhancements to the ‘Thinking Healthy Programme’
Conflicts: Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Eugene Kinyanda, Professor Tom Solomon
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR200816: Evaluation of Co-designed Low-Intensity Psychological and Social interventions (CoLIPSo) for 15-24-year-olds with serious mental illness: A new social recovery-focused youth mental health service model for low- and middle-income countries
Conflicts: Professor Moffat Niyrenda, Professor Eugene Kinyanda, Dr Rahul Shidhaye
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200812: Latin America: Mental Health Interventions and Comorbidity (LAMHIC)
Conflicts: Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Eugene Kinyanda
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200842: SPARK: Supporting Parents And communities in the Rehabilitation of Kids with developmental disorders in Africa
Conflicts: Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Tom Solomon, Mrs Una Rennard, Professor Eugene Kinyanda, Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Andrea Winkler, Professor Catherine Harmer
Outcome: Recommended for funding
NIHR200809: Improving mental health outcomes in young adults living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia
Conflicts: Professor Tom Solomon
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200854: Using eye tracking technology for diagnosing and managing major mental illness in India and China
Conflicts: Professor Pamela Abbott, Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Daniel Smith, Professor Eugene Kinyanda
Outcome: Rejected