Date and Location
Tuesday 14 & Wednesday 15 March 2023 via Zoom Virtual Meeting.
In Attendance
- Professor Kath Maitland (Co-Chair)
- Professor Paramjit Gill (Co-Chair)
- Professor Helen Ayles
- Professor Siobhan Creanor
- Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso
- Professor Lisa Dikomitis
- Professor Janet Dunn
- Professor Jane Goudge
- Professor Oye Gureje (Day 1 only)
- Professor Fred Nuwaha
- Dr Ramesh Poluru
- Dr Rahul Shidhaye
- Professor Athula Sumathipala
Observers
- Mrs Stephanie Russell (DHSC)
- Ms Charlotte Seeley-Musgrave (DHSC)
- Dr Inesa Thomsen (DHSC)
- Mr Shem Ochola (NIHR)
- Ms Nursidah Abdullah (NIHR)
Secretariat
- Dr Mike Rogers
- Dr Louise Kim
- Miss Bronwyn Mathews
- Dr Danilo Navarrete
- Mrs Kathryn Rumney
- Mr Bryan Dar
- Mr Curtis Dixon
- Miss Emily Griffiths
- Ms Razina Hussain
- Mr Noor Akbar
Apologies
- Professor Nhan Tran
- Professor Li Yan Hsu
- Professor John Petrie
- Professor Oye Gureje (Day 2 only)
- Professor Anthony Udezi
Welcome and Introductions
The Co-Chair, Professor Kath Maitland officially welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced herself.
Background and scope of RIGHT Call 6
Dr Mike Rogers, Assistant Director, Global Health Research and Dr Inesa Thomsen, Head of Global Health Research Programmes, DHSC, gave an introduction to the scheme (see slides).
Purpose of the meeting and process for accessing applications
Dr Mike Rogers informed the Funding Committee about the process for assessing the applications and the purpose of the meeting; 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 declined at Stage 1.
RIGHT Call 6 Stage 1 applications discussed at the meeting
NIHR205549: An Effectiveness of a Virtual Reality Enhancing Social Skills in ASIAN Autistic Children with Comorbidity
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205610: Tackling Tuberculosis, Diabetes and Hypertension multi-morbidity in Bangladesh: Context specific intervention for resource poor settings
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205541: Group postnatal care to prevent and detect multiple long-term morbidities
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205602: MenTal health, HypeRtension, Diabetes: a community delivered intervention to ImproVe multimorbidity outcomEs in Guyana (THRIVE)
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Lisa Dikomitis, Professor Athula Sumathipala
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205582: Managing osteoarthritis in people living with multimorbidity in Vietnam (MOVE)
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Athula Sumathipala, Professor Siobhan Creanor, Professor Lisa Dikomitis
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205583: Enhancing management of Multiple Long-Term Conditions in rural communities of India and Indonesia
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett, Professor Kathryn Maitland
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205591:Reducing the Disease Burden of Stroke in HIV-endemic Malawi
Conflicts: Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor Christopher Millett, Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205527: Enhancing quality of life through pain management for people with multi-morbidity in Indonesia
Conflicts: Professor Siobhan Creanor, Professor Lucia D'Ambruoso, Professor Christopher Millett
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205568: Enhancing care for depression, hypertension and diabetes mellitus among transgender persons in India
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett, Professor Kathryn Maitland
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205589: Burden of multimorbidity and evaluation of a holistic integrated approach to therapy in rural India
Conflicts: Professor John Petrie
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205599: DiaCaM:Design, Implementation, and evaluation of an EHR-based Approach to management of CArdiovascular Multiple-long-term-conditions(multimorbidities) in Serbia
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett, Professor Kathryn Maitland
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205570: Holistic care for health beyond TB
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett, Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205609: Focus on Functional Impairments to address Multimorbidity in three African countries (FFIMA)
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205601: The SCIMITAR-South Asia programme to address tobacco-related multiple long-term conditions in mental health services
Conflicts: Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Siobhan Creanor
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205550: Micro-economic intervention to support self-care for multimorbidity: feasibility and evaluation studies across four African countries
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Lucia D'Ambruoso, Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205639: Scaling-up evidence-based health interventions in Tanzania through healthcare financing/digital technOlogy to prevent Non-Communicable Disease
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205554: Management of multiple-long-term-conditions through digitally integrated care-pathways and decision support systems in Sri Lanka
Conflicts: Professor Siobhan Creanor, Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Lucia D'Ambruoso, Professor John Petrie, Professor Lisa Dikomitis
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR156503: NIHR Global Health Research Group on Harnessing Community Support for Multimorbidity in Malawi to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing
Conflicts: Professor John Petrie, Professor Helen Ayles, Professor Jane Goudge
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205545: EMPOWER: Empowering communities to tackle HIV and mental health multimorbidity among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Athula Sumathipala, Professor Lisa Dikomitis
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205531: Health-care for health workers in Zimbabwe – a cluster randomised trial of health-checks
Conflicts: Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205552: Chronic conditions in Africa: development and evaluation of model-management and care to improve health outcomes
Conflicts: Professor Fred Nuwaha, Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205567: Integrating mental and physical health to improve outcomes across conditions in Pakistan, Peru and Uganda
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett, Professor Fred Nuwaha
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205594: Improving the care and quality of life for cancer patients with MLTCs in Jordan
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205556: CO-morbid Long-term disease Management in the Americas: blended intervention (COLMA)
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett, Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Oye Gureje
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205575: Management of Cardiometabolic and Dementia Multimorbidity in Nigeria using Integrated Patient-centred primary care-based Strategies
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205614: Optimising the prevention and management of multimorbid heart failure linked to poverty in urban-dwelling Africans
Conflicts: Professor John Petrie
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205579: Collaborative stepped care intervention for management of diabetes-depression multimorbidity in primary care setting in Nigeria
Conflicts: Professor Oye Gureje
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205606: Integrated Care for Older People living with Multiple Long Term Conditions in Ethiopia (ICOPE-MLTC)
Conflicts: Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Helen Ayles, Professor Oye Gureje
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205557: Reimagining the First 1000 Days for the Mother-Child to address Multiple Long-Term Conditions
Conflicts: Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Helen Ayles, Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Jane Goudge, Professor Athula Sumathipala
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205525: Development and evaluation of a novel digital diabetes self management decision support intervention (DIA-DESIN)
Conflicts: Professor Christopher Millett
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205564: Integrated care of HIV/TB, diabetes and related long-term conditions: intervention research in Pakistan and Malawi
Conflicts: Professor Lisa Dikomitis
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205580: Testing feasibility of eHealth in supporting diagnosis and treatment of multimorbidity in Tanzania
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205586: IMAGINE: Integrating Mental Health and Neglected Tropical Disease Interventions to Support Equitable People-Centred Care
Conflicts: Professor Helen Ayles, Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Lisa Dikomitis
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205528: Preventing long-term mental health conditions, HIV and sexually-transmitted infections among sex-workers in Southern Africa
Conflicts: Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Helen Ayles
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205566: Strengthening TB Services to Address Multi-Morbidity in Bangladesh
Conflicts: Professor Siobhan Creanor, Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Lucia D'Ambruoso
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205604: HARS Home and Remote Support: Health Monitoring and Support for Better Outcomes in the Community
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205590: Community-based intervention for improved management of chronic multimorbidity in high HIV prevalence setting in Kenya
Conflicts: Dr Ramesh Poluru
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205540: Affordable Cardiac Rehabilitation: An Outreach Inter-disciplinary Strategic Study (ACROSS)
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Siobhan Creanor, Professor John Petrie
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
Applications not discussed in detail
The following Stage 1 applications were not discussed in detail at the meeting. They received a score of 5 or higher, or 2 or below from all LAs who reviewed the applications.
NIHR205561: Integrated Psychosocial Care Plan for Comorbid Depression in Breast Cancer Patients in Low Resources Settings
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Athula Sumathipala, Professor Lisa Dikomitis
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR205595: Multimorbidity prevention and management through lifestyle intervention and policy engagement in Tanzania and Kenya
Conflicts: Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor John Petrie
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205621: Multimorbidity in mental-Illness associated with chronic diseases: Prevalence, Factors, treatment and outcomes in Nigeria
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205617: Policy Decision Support Tools for Reducing Non-Communicable Diseases Multimorbidity in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand (PINPOINT)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205538: Enhanced HIV prevention and treatment in LICs through social and mental health interventions
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline
NIHR205600: Improved health services utilization for multi-morbidities by marginalized LGBTQIA+ in Delhi, India, 2024-2029: UPLiFT Project
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Decline