NIHR Global Health Call 2 Units - Funding Committee Minutes - September 2021

  • Published: 26 September 2022
  • Version: V1.0 - September 2022
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Date 

21 September 2021

Venue

Via Zoom

Present members

  • Professor Stephen Tollman (Chair)
    Director, Medical Research Council (MRC) / Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) and Head Health and Population Division in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Professor Jane Norman (Deputy Chair)
    Dean for the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK
  • Professor Bertie Squire (Deputy Chair)
    Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Dean of Clinical Sciences & International Public Health, LSTM, UK

Core Members

  • Professor Moses Chimbari
    Professor of Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Dr Evelyn Gitau
    Director of Research Capacity Strengthening at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), KEMRI-Wellcome, Kenya
  • Professor Caroline Jones
    Professor of International Health Systems Research, University of Leeds, UK and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
  • Dr Francisco Oviedo-Gomez
    Senior Medical Officer, Department of Health Services Ministry of Health, Costa Rica
  • Professor Malabika Sarker
    Associate Dean & Director CoE for Science of Implementation and Scale-up, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh
  • Professor Dong (Roman) Xu
    Southern Medical University, School of Health Management, China

Members

  • Dr Dorcas Kamuya
    Head of Health Systems and Research Ethics, KEMRI Wellcome Trust, Kenya
  • Dr Tara Tancred
    Senior Research Associate, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
  • Dr Koku Awoonor-Williams
    Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Ghana Health Service, Ghana
  • Dr Anna Dare
    Clinician and Epidemiologist, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Professor Gail Davey
    Professor of Global Health Epidemiology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), UK
  • Professor Alison Elliott
    Based at the MRC Unit, Uganda (Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), UVRI and Makerere – LSHTM & Uganda
  • Professor Carlos Gomez-Restrepo
    Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
  • Professor Rob Heyderman
    Head, Research Department of Infection, University College London, UK
  • Dr Malay Mridha
    Associate Professor, Director of Centre for Excellence for Non-Communicable Diseases and Nutrition, BRAC University, Bangladesh
  • Dr Aliya Naheed
    Head of the Initiative for Non-Communicable Diseases at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
  • Dr Nonhlanhla Nxumalo
    Director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Professor Alafia Samuels
    Honorary professor (retired), Caribbean Centre for Health Research, University of the West Indies, Barbados
  • Dr Alan Sanchez
    Principal Investigator, Young Lives Peru, University of Oxford, UK

NETSCC Secretariat

  • Dr Sarah Puddicombe
    Assistant Director
  • Dr Jason Horsley
    Consultant Advisor
  • Mrs Fay Habens
    Senior Research Manager
  • Dr Lisa Marsh
    Research Manager
  • Mrs Natalija Edwards
    Senior Finance Manager
  • Mrs Renee Lewin
    Research Awards Manager
  • Dr Ruth Challis
    Research Manager
  • Mrs Stella Burton
    Assistant Research Manager
  • Miss Linda Welch
    Assistant Research Manager
  • Mrs Marlina Curtis
    Administrator
  • Miss Asia Pracz
    Administrator

Apologies

  • Evelyn Gitau (attending until 14:50 only)

Observers

  • Mrs Stephanie Russell (all day)
    Global Health Research Portfolio Delivery Manager
  • Dr Val Snewin (morning only)
    Head of Global Health Research Partnerships
  • Bianca Dsouza (morning only)
    Partnerships Manager, Global Health Research
  • Francesca Ashworth (morning only)
    Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manager, Global Health Research
  • Charlotte Seely-Musgrave (afternoon only)
    Programme Officer, Global Health Research
  • Nicole Owen (afternoon only)
    Global Health Research Officer
  • Ali McEwen (afternoon only)
    Global Health Research Partnerships Manager

Quoracy Information

21 voting members present (19 committee members + 2 deputy chairs)100%
quorate

 

Call 2 Units (Phase 2) Application Feedback


Project ref: 134298

Professor Matthew John Burton, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr Stephen Gichuhi, University of Nairobi

NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Eye Health

Chair Stephen Tollman, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Alison Elliott
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134801

Professor Alastair Leyland, The University Court of the University of Glasgow
Professor Mauricio Barreto, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities

Chair Stephen Tollman, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Alison Elliott, Bertie Squire
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Fund with changes

 

Project ref: 133891

Professor Swaran Singh, University of Warwick
Professor Olayinka Omigbodun, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Developing Care Models for Serious Mental Disorders in Resource poor Settings

Chair Stephen Tollman, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Bertie Squire, Evelyn Gitau, Tara Tancred
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome: This application was not approved for funding by DHSC

 

Project ref: 134232

Professor Paul Connolly, Lancaster University
Dr Issaka Sagara, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Early Childhood Development for Peacebuilding

Chair Stephen Tollman, Bertie Squire (deputy)
Conflicts Carlos Gomez-Restrepo, Rob Heyderman
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134702

Professor Jonathan Green, The University of Manchester
Dr Gauri Divan, Sangath, India

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Neurodevelopment and AutisM in South ASia Treatment and Evidence - NAMASTE

Chair Stephen Tollman, Bertie Squire (deputy)
Conflicts None declared
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Fund with changes

 

Project ref: 134752

Associate Professor George Mbugua Warimwe, The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford
Associate Professor Edwine Barasa, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Vaccines in Africa

Chair Stephen Tollman, Bertie Squire (deputy)
Conflicts Evelyn Gitau, Caroline Jones, Dorcas Kamuya, Alison Elliott, Nonhlanhla Nxumlalo, Alan Sanchez
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome: This application was not approved for funding by DHSC

 

Project ref: 134110

Dr Michelle Heys, University College London
Dr Simbarashe Chimhuya, University of Zimbabwe

NIHR Global Health Research Unit: Learning Health care systems for Newborns in low resource settings.

Chair Bertie Squire, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Rob Heyderman
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome: This application was not approved for funding by DHSC

 

Project ref: 134106

Professor Nicholas Wareham, The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
Professor Shane Norris, University of the Witwatersrand

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Pan African Adolescent Health (PAHRU): preventing Non Communicable Disease risk

Chair Bertie Squire, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Stephen Tollman, Nonhlanhla Nxumlalo, Alafia Samuels
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 133252

Professor Marc Suhrcke, The University of York
Professor Indrani Gupta, University of Delhi, India

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Health financing for UHC in challenging times: leaving no-one behind

Chair Bertie Squire, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Stephen Tollman, Nonhlanhla Nxumlalo
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Fund with changes

 

Project ref: 134626

Professor Dame Caroline Watkins, University of Central Lancashire
Professor Jeyaraj Pandian, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India

NIHR Global Heath Research Unit on improving stroke care in India, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Vietnam at the University of Central Lancashire (IMPROVISE-Global HRU)

Chair Jane Norman, Stephen Tollman (deputy)
Conflicts None reported
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134688

Professor Richard Sullivan, King's College London
Professor Manju Sengar, Tata Memorial Hospital, India

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Cancer

Chair Jane Norman, Stephen Tollman (deputy)
Conflicts Anna Dare, Alison Elliott, Rob Heyderman, Alan Sanchez
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134530

Professor Daniel Pope, University of Liverpool
Dr James Mwitari, AMREF International University, Kenya

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on CLEAN-Air (Africa) Unit “Clean modern energy for all”. Benefitting health, society, environment and climate in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Chair Jane Norman, Stephen Tollman (deputy)
Conflicts Bertie Squire
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Fund with changes

 

Project ref: 133716

Professor Mark Woolhouse, The University of Edinburgh
Professor Gordon Awandare, University of Ghana

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa at The University of Edinburgh (TIBA2)

Chair Bertie Squire, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Moses Chimbari, Gail Davey, Alison Elliott, Caroline Jones, Dorcas Kamuya
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134712

Dr Oyinlola Oyebode, University of Warwick
Dr Romaina Iqbal, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan

NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Healthy Food Environments for Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods

Chair Bertie Squire, Jane Norman (deputy)
Conflicts Nonhlanhla Nxumlalo
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134143

Professor Catherine Robinson, The University of Manchester
Professor Indika Gawarammana, University of Peradeniya

NIHR Global Health Unit for the Prevention of Self Harm and Suicide - NIHR GHUPOSS

Chair Stephen Tollman, Bertie Squire (deputy)
Conflicts Jane Norman, Alan Sanchez
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134755

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam, University of Birmingham
Professor Hadiza Galadanci, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria

NIHR Global Health Unit on Maternal and Perinatal Health (Glo-MAP)

Chair Stephen Tollman, Bertie Squire (deputy)
Conflicts Alison Elliott, Jane Norman
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Project ref: 134108

Professor Dilly Anumba, The University of Sheffield
Dr Shams El Arifeen, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

NIHR GHR Unit on PRevention and management of major morbidities to IMprove maternal and nEwborn health in LMICs (PRIME).

Chair Stephen Tollman, Bertie Squire (deputy)
Conflicts Gail Davey, Aliya Naheed
ODA compliant Yes
Outcome Decline

 

Summary

NIHR 
Reference
 Title  Outcome
134298 NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Eye Health DECLINE
134801 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities FUND WITH CHANGES
133891 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Developing Care Models for Serious Mental Disorders in Resource poor Settings DECLINE
134232 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Early Childhood Development for Peacebuilding DECLINE
134702 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Neurodevelopment and AutisM in South ASia Treatment and Evidence - NAMASTE FUND WITH CHANGES
134752 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Vaccines in Africa DECLINE
134110 NIHR Global Health Research Unit: Learning Health care systems for Newborns in low resource settings. DECLINE
134106 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Pan African Adolescent Health (PAHRU): preventing Non Communicable Disease risk DECLINE
133252 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Health financing for UHC in challenging times: leaving no-one behind FUND WITH CHANGES
134626 NIHR Global Heath Research Unit on improving stroke care in India, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Vietnam at the University of Central Lancashire (IMPROVISE-Global HRU) DECLINE
134688  NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Cancer DECLINE
134530 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on CLEAN-Air(Africa) Unit “Clean modern energy for all”. Benefitting health, society, environment and climate in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. FUND WITH CHANGES
133716 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa at The University of Edinburgh (TIBA2) DECLINE
134712 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Healthy Food Environments for Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods DECLINE
134143 NIHR Global Health Research Unit for the Prevention of Self Harm and Suicide NIHR GHUPOSS DECLINE
134755 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Maternal and Perinatal Health (Glo-MAP) DECLINE
134108 NIHR Global Health Research Unit on PRevention and management of major morbidities to IMprove maternal and nEwborn health in LMICs (PRIME). DECLINE