Minutes of the Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation RIGHT 5 Stage 1 Triage Meeting.
Date and Location
Tuesday 13th September 2022, 09:00 via Zoom Virtual Meeting.
In Attendance
Funding Committee Members |
Role |
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Professor Nhan Tran (Co-Chair) |
Head of Safety and Mobility, World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland |
Professor Ibidun Adelekan (Co-Chair) |
Professor of Geography, University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso |
Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health, University of Aberdeen, UK |
Dr Adugna Woyessa Gemeda |
Director for Bacterial, Parasitic and Zoonotic Diseases Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Ethiopia |
Professor Rumana Huque |
Professor of Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Professor Joseph Jarvis |
NIHR Global Health Research Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK / Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Botswana |
Professor Christopher Millett |
Professor of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK./ Visiting Professor, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal |
Professor Fred Nuwaha |
Professor of Disease Control and Prevention, Makerere University, Uganda |
Professor Flavia Mori Sarti |
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Professor Cathryn Cecelia Tonne |
Associate Research Professor, The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain |
Professor Jo Wilmshurst |
Head of Paediatric Neurology at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
Observers |
Role |
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Dr Inesa Thomsen |
Head of Global Health Research Programmes, DHSC |
Ms Alexandra Griffiths |
Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC |
Ms Katie Robertson |
Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC |
Mrs Stephanie Russell |
Global Health Research Portfolio Delivery Manager, DHSC |
Dr Chadarat Hengsadeekul |
CEI Committee member |
Dr Sree Sucharitha Tirukkovalluri |
CEI Committee member |
Mr Bryan Dar |
Senior Research Officer, Operations. |
NIHR Secretariat |
Role |
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Dr Mike Rogers |
Assistant Director, Global Health |
Dr Louise Kim |
Senior Programme Manager, Global Health |
Dr Danilo Villanueva Navarrete |
Programme Manager, Global Health |
Ms Jessica O’Hara |
Programme Manager, Global Health |
Mr Curtis Dixon |
Research Officer, Operations |
Ms Bronwyn Mathews |
Research Officer, Operations |
Mrs Kathryn Rumney |
Operations Manager |
Ms Razina Hussain |
Senior Programme Manager, PPIE |
Mr Noor Akbar |
Programme Manager, PPIE |
Welcome and Introductions
The co-chairs officially welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced themselves.
Recap: Purpose of the meeting and process for accessing applications
The Co-chair Professor Nhan Tran reminded the Funding Committee about the process for assessing the applications and the purpose of the meeting previously discussed at the pre-committee meeting briefing held on the 7th September 2022: to make recommendations to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on which applications should proceed to Stage 2 and which applications should be rejected at Stage 1.
Assessment of applications
The following Stage 1 applications were discussed by the Shortlisting Committee and invited to progress to Stage 2 or rejected.
NIHR204850:The Hospital Risk Insurance System for Kenya
Conflicts: Professor Liz Grant
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204869: Improving early warning and control of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks caused by extreme-weather in Uganda
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204802: Empowering Climate-resilient Inclusive Health Facilities in Bangladesh
Conflicts: Professor Joseph Jarvis,Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Christopher Millett
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204873: Technology enabled resilient healthcare delivery in the Sundarbans: a trans-boundary intervention in India and Bangladesh
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204854: Strengthening the climate resiliency of health service provision in marginalised urban settings
Conflicts: Professor Ibidun Adelekan, Professor Shuaib Lwasa
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204821: Improving healthcare resilience and protecting older women’s health against extreme heat in Southern Africa
Conflicts: Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Jane Goudge (RMS)
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204813: Preparedness for Extreme Weather Events through Resilient (POWER) Health Systems
Conflicts: Professor Virginia Murray
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204817: Technology-enabled climate resilient health systems for adolescent sexual, reproductive, and mental health in Ghana
Conflicts: Dr Reginald Quansah
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204840: ColLaboration for Integrated Management of Teams in Extreme weather – Emergency Response CLIMATE ER
Conflicts: Dr Laura Anselmi, Professor Virginia Murray, Professor Liz Grant
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204820: Improving business continuity for health services following extreme weather events
Conflicts: Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Fred Nuwaha, Professor Virginia Murray
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204828: Adaptations to strengthen healthcare delivery and resilience to extreme weather events in Southern Africa (ASTRA)
Conflicts: Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Moffat Nyrirenda (RMS)
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204845: Achieving Health Service Delivery Resilience During Climate-Induced Disasters among the Most Vulnerable Communities in Mozambique
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204852: Building resilient healthcare systems in extreme heat events: Leveraging South-South learning between India and Bangladesh
Conflicts: Professor Rumana Huque
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204847: Building flood-related healthcare resilience in Ghana: a mixed methods study
Conflicts: Dr Reginald Quansah, Professor Rumana Huque
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204838: Resilient health service delivery for dengue and malaria in Sri Lanka during floods and droughts
Conflicts: Professor Virginia Murray
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204825: Warning system for Extreme weather events, Awareness Technology for Healthcare, Equitable delivery, and Resilience (WEATHER).
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204864: Improving Malawi's preparedness for health service delivery during extreme weather-related disasters in select disaster-prone areas.
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204831: Increasing resilience of malaria healthcare capacity to flooding in Kilombero Valley Floodplain, Tanzania. (Malcareflo)
Conflicts: Professor Shuaib Lwasa
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204830: Strengthening Health Services Resilience to Extreme Weather Events Through Participatory Innovation
Conflicts: Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso, Professor Liz Grant
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204862: Model of an Adaptive and Resilient Health System for extreme climatic events
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204857: Developing a climate disaster-resilient digital healthcare delivery intervention for maternal, neonatal and infant health
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204859: Strengthening Kazakhstan’s healthcare system capacity and resilience to extreme heat
Conflicts: Professor Virginia Murray
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204861: Building Climate-REsilient Primary Health Systems for Maternal and Child Health and Non-communicable Diseases (CREPHS)
Conflicts: Professor Liz Grant, Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Shuaib Lwasa
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204868: Health Systems Strengthening and Resilience to the Impacts of Landslides in Kerio Valley Escarpment, Kenya
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204871: Improving primary healthcare for patients with non-communicable diseases during severe flooding in India
Conflicts: Professor Rod Taylor (RMS), Professor Rumana Huque (RMS)
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204872: Co-creating pathways for healthcare system resilience facing extreme weather events in three regions in Peru
Conflicts: Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Moffat Nyirenda
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204877: ACCLIMATE: Co-fostering Health System Resilience in A Changing Climate Environment in Bangladesh
Conflicts: Professor Rumana Huque
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204879: Overcoming Geography with Technology; Medical Drone Delivery to support health services in flood risk areas
Conflicts: Professor Fred Nuwaha, Professor Shuaib Lwasa (RMS)
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204881: Mitigating unintended pregnancies among young women in the context of extreme weather in Africa
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204839: Health vulnerabilities to heat wave exposure in Bangladesh: Enabling citizen scientists through community lab
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204875: Deploying mHealth Technologies to Support Health Care Among Pregnant Women in Extreme Weather Prone Areas
Conflicts: Professor Fred Nuwaha, Professor Moffat Nyirenda
Outcome: Reject
The following Stage 1 applications were not discussed in detail at the meeting. They received unanimous and clear recommendations or rejections from all LAs who reviewed the applications.
NIHR204849: Addressing the challenge of heat stress in rural communities in India and Indonesia
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR204846: Partnership for Strengthening Community and Health System Emergency Preparedness and Resilience in Floods Prone Regions
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR204775: Countering Cold Realities of a Warming Planet: Towards Building Resilience and Climate- Transformative Health Equity
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject