Global Health Research Centres Learning Research Partner Call Committee Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the Learning Research Partner Call Funding Committee

Date and Location

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 09:00 via Zoom Virtual Meeting

Attendance

Funding Committee Members	-
Professor Dilichukwu Anumba (Chair)	Professor, Honorary Consultant Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Julie Bayley	Director of Research Impact Development, & Director of the Lincoln Impact Literacy Institute, University of Lincoln, UK
Professor Tazeen H. Jafar	Professor of Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
Ms Lillian N. Mutengu	Programme Manager, Community and Public Engagement, Science for Africa Foundation, Kenya
Mr. Emmanuel Osei-Mensah	Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, University of Global Health and Equity, Rwanda
Dr Ian Viney MBE	Director of Strategic Evaluation and Impact, Medical Research Council, UK
Mr. Vijay Rajkumar	Development professional in community engagement and participatory approaches to planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Dr. Benedict Weobong	Senior Lecturer in Social and Behavioural Sciences; Global Mental Health Epidemiologist, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Ghana

Apologies	-
Ms. Kethi Mullei (Funding Committee)	Director of Learning and Evaluation, Integra LLC, Kenya
Ms Katie Robertson	Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC
Mrs Stephanie Russell	Global Health Research Portfolio Delivery Manager, DHSC

NIHR Secretariat	-
Dr Mike Rogers	Assistant Director, Global Health Research
Dr Sylvia Anie	Senior Programme Manager, Global Health Research
Mrs Kathryn Rumney	Operations Manager, NIHR CCF
Ms Jessica O’Hara	Programme Manager, Global Health Research
Ms Bronwyn Mathews	Programme Manager, Global Health Research
Ms Emily Griffiths	Research Officer, Operations, NIHR CCF
Mr Curtis Dixon	Research Officer, Operations, NIHR CCF
Ms Razina Hussain	Senior Programme Manager, PPIE, NIHR CCF

Observer	-
Ms Francesca Ashworth	Global Health Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, DHSC

Welcome, Apologies and Introductions

Professor Dilichukwu Anumba, the Chair of the Funding Committee, officially welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked members for serving on the LRP Funding Committee. The Funding Committee, CCF Secretariat and Observers introduced themselves. The Chair outlined the agenda for the meeting and the purpose of the meeting which was to make funding recommendations to the Department of Health and Social Care. Apologies were received from Ms. Kethi Mullei.

Background of the GHR Centres and Aims of LRP Call

Dr Sylvia Anie, Senior Programme Manager and Centres MEL Lead, gave an overview of the Global Health Research Centres programme, the five GHR Centres awards currently being funded and explained the aims of the LRP call.

Process for assessing applications

Dr Mike Rogers, Assistant Director, informed the Funding Committee about the assessment process for the applications, the scoring, ranking and the feedback processes including an overview of conflicts of interest. The Funding Committee, comprising Global Health Generalists, Subject Matter Experts and Community Engagement and Involvement Specialists scored all the applications, unless they were conflicted or absent.

The Funding Committee was shown a short video on Unconscious Bias produced by the Royal Society followed by a demonstration of Zoom voting by Mr Curtis Dixon, CCF Secretariat.

The following applications were discussed by the Committee and were recommended for funding or rejected.

NIHR205659: Global Health Research Learning Partner
Conflicted Committee Member(s): Ms Lillian N. Mutengu
Final Outcome: Rejected

NIHR205662: Research Learning Partner on MEL Participatory Method
Conflicted Committee Member(s): None
Final Outcome: Rejected

NIHR205661: Global Health Research Centres: Learning Research Partner
Conflicted Committee Member(s): None
Final Outcome: Recommended for Funding