Thirty Global Health Research Groups announced to address locally-identified challenges in LMICs

Published: 12 October 2022

We are delighted to announce the outcomes of the third NIHR Global Health Research Groups funding call.

The Global Health Research Groups programme awards funding to specialist departments within UK universities or research institutions not currently active in global health that want to use their existing skills to build capacity to extend into this field.

The NIHR Global Health Research Groups programme funds research to address locally-identified challenges in low and middle income countries (LMICs), by supporting equitable research partnerships between researchers and institutions in the UK and those in LMICs eligible to receive Official Development Assistance (ODA).

30 NIHR Groups, listed below, have been awarded funding in response to the third call and are now starting work that will be funded at least until 2025.

Dr Sarah Puddicombe, Assistant Director for Global Health at NIHR Coordinating Centre, said: “Our Groups awards are establishing new equitable partnerships which engage local communities and policy makers to identify and address unmet development needs towards improved health outcomes for those living in LMICs.

“These new Groups embrace a diversity of research and capacity strengthening activities, each designed to improve research capacity and provide high quality research evidence to inform policy and practice to benefit the most vulnerable populations living in LMICs.”

The new Global Health Research Groups are:

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain and Spine Injury (ABSI)

NIHR Global Health Group on Oral Health

NIHR Global Health Research Group on collaborative care for cardiometabolic disease in Africa

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Gastrointestinal Infections: Facilitating the Introduction and Evaluation of Vaccines for Enteric Diseases in Children in Eastern and Southern sub-Saharan Africa.

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Promoting Children's and Adolescent's Mental Wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa.

NIHR Global Health Group on Equitable Access to Quality Health Care for Injured People in Four Low or Middle Income Countries: Equi-injury

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Controlling Vector Borne Diseases in Emerging Agricultural Systems in Malawi

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Diet and Activity -A syndemic approach to the prevention of diet- and physical activity-related NCDs

NIHR Global Health Research Group on developing strategies for hepatitis C in Ethiopia (DESTINE)

NIHR Global Research Group on Advancing Early Diagnosis of Cancer in Southern Africa- AWACAN-ED

NIHR Global Health Research Group: Implementation of simple solutions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and build research capacity in Sierra Leone