Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation - Call 3 Stage 2 minutes

Published: 03 December 2021
Version: V01 - December 2021
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Minutes of the Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) funding committee meeting to discuss stage 2 applications to call 3.

Date and location

Meeting held on 02 and 03 February 2021 via Zoom Virtual Meeting.

In attendance

Funding Committee Members

Name	Affiliation
Dr Marie-Paule Kieny (Chair)	Director of Research, Inserm, France
Professor Jo Wilmshurst (Deputy Chair)	Head of Paediatric Neurology, the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Pamela Abbott	Director of the Centre for Global Development, University of Aberdeen, UK
Dr Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo	Founding Director and Technical Consultant, African Institute for Health and Development, Kenya
Professor Marcello André Barcinski	Emeritus Professor, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mr David Chandler	CEI Public Committee Member
Professor Prabha S. Chandra	Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), India
Professor Luis Cuevas	Chair in International Public Health and Epidemiology Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Mr Peter O. Ekiikina	CEI Public Committee Member, Uganda
Professor Oye Gureje	Professor of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Professor Catherine Harmer	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College at University of Oxford, UK
Professor Li Yang Hsu	Vice Dean of Global Health, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Singapore
Professor Joe (Joseph) Jarvis	Professor of Tropical Medicine and International Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Professor Saidi Kapiga	Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Hygiene, UK / Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Tanzania
Professor Kath (Kathryn) Maitland	Professor of Tropical Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, UK
Professor David Bruce Matchar	Director of the Center for Clinical Health Policy Research and Professor of Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Professor Sassy (Catherine) Molyneux (Day 1 Only)	Professor of Global Health, Social and Behaviour Research, University of Oxford, UK / Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
Professor Noeline Nakasujja	Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Professor, Makerere University, Uganda
Dr David J Phipps	Assistant Vice President Research Strategy & Impact, York University, Canada
Mrs Una Rennard	CEI Public Committee Member
Dr Rahul Shidhaye	Senior Research Scientist and Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, India
Professor Janaka de Silva	Professor of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Professor Jonathan Valabhji OBE	Consultant Diabetologist and Professor of Practice (Diabetes), Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
Professor Rainford Wilks	Emeritus Professor, University of West Indies, Jamaica

Apologies

Name	Affiliation
Professor Simon Heller	Professor of Clinical Diabetes, Department of Oncology & Metabolism, University of Sheffield

NIHR Secretariat

Name	Affiliation
Dr Nicola Commander	Senior Programme Manager, Global Health
Mr Bryan Paolo Dar	Senior Research Officer
Ms Bianca DeBortoli	Research Manager, Global Health
Mr Curtis Dixon	Research Officer
Dr Louise Kim	Programme Manager, Global Health
Dr Mike Rogers	Assistant Director, Global Health
Mrs Kathryn Rumney	Operations Manager
Ms Anneke van de Stege	Research Officer
Dr Debbie Willis	Senior Programme Manager, Global Health

Observers

Name	Affiliation
Mr Mike Batley	Deputy Director, Research Programmes, DHSC
Dr Alex Ademokun (Day 1 Only)	Head of Global Health Research Programmes, DHSC
Ms Alison MacEwen (Day 1 Only)	Global Health Research Programme Manager, DHSC
Miss Aaronjay Tidball (Day 2 Only)	Global Health Research Programme Officer, DHSC
Mr Ajmal Issimbar (Day 2 only)	Global Health Research Team Coordinator, DHSC
Ms Mary Eastmond	Senior Programme Manager, Community Engagement and Involvement
Ms Razina Hussain	Programme Manager, Community Engagement and Involvement
Dr Sylvia Anie	Senior Research Manager, Global Health
Dr Chichi Ezenwa	Programme Manager, Global Health

RIGHT Call 3 Stage 2 applications considered

1.1 NIHR201742: Co-design, implementation and evaluation of an AI-supported digital health intervention to manage multi-morbidity at a community level in South Africa and Uganda

Lead Applicant: Professor Luc de Witte, University of Sheffield

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Debashis Basu, University of Pretoria

Conflicts: Professor Noeline Nakasujja

Outcome: Declined

1.2 NIHR201781: Strengthening the Healthcare System in India for those affected by Multimorbidity

Lead Applicant: Professor Paramjit Gill, University of Warwick

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor J. S. Thakur, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Conflicts: Professor Jonathan Valabhji

Outcome: Declined

1.3 NIHR201826: Tackling multimorbidity in Africa through patient-centred partnership: an integrated model of care for the prevention and management of HIV infection, diabetes, hypertension and depression.

Lead Applicant: Professor Moffat Nyirenda, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Sayoki Mfinanga, National Institute for Medical Research - Tanzania

Conflicts: Professor Noeline Nakasujja, Dr Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Professor Luis Cuevas, Professor Saida Kapiga, Professor Joe Jarvis, Professor Oye Gureje, Professor Jonathan Valabhji

Outcome: Declined

1.4 NIHR201724: Improving mental health outcomes in adults living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia: Tili Che

Lead Applicant: Professor Christian Mallen, Keele University

Joint Lead Applicant: Dr Carolyn Bolton Moore, Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Zambia

Conflicts: Dr David Phipps

Outcome: Declined

1.5 NIHR201743: Addressing the challenge of multimorbidity in rural India

Lead Applicant: Professor Stephen MacMahon, Imperial College London

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Vivekanand Jha, The George Institute for Global Health

Conflicts: Professor Kath Maitland

Outcome: Declined

1.6 NIHR201773: The CONTROL (COgNitive Therapy for depRessiOn in tubercuLosis treatment) programme of research to improve outcomes for depression and TB in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Lead Applicant: Professor Saeed Farooq, Keele University

Joint Lead Applicant: Dr Zohaib Khan, Khyber Medical University

Conflicts: None

Outcome: Funded

1.7 NIHR201815: Affordable Cardiac Rehabilitation: Affordable Cardiac Rehabilitation: An Outreach Inter-disciplinary Strategic Study (ACROSS)

Lead Applicant: Professor Rod Taylor, University of Glasgow

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Imran Chaudhry, Pakistan Institute Of Living and Learning

Conflicts: None

Outcome: Declined

1.8 NIHR201822: The implementation and effectiveness of a programme of Integrated Care for Older People living with MultiMorbidity in three sub-Saharan African countries (ICOPE-MM)

Lead Applicant: Professor Martin James Prince, King's College London

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Atalay Alem, Addis Ababa University

Conflicts: Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Saidi Kapiga, Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Oye Gureje

Outcome: Declined

1.9 NIHR201795: Development and evaluation of a co-ordinated model of care to prevent progression of multi-morbidity in disadvantaged patients with Tuberculosis and Diabetes Mellitus

Lead Applicant: Professor Julia Critchley, St. George's, University of London

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Craig Anderson, The George Institute for Global Health

Conflicts: None

Outcome: Declined

1.10 NIHR201799: NAMASTE. Nepal: Addressing Multimorbidity through Activity, Smoking cessation, Training and Education

Lead Applicant: Professor Charlotte Bolton, University of Nottingham

Joint Lead Applicant: Dr Biraj Karmacharya, Kathmandu University

Conflicts: None

Outcome: Declined

1.11 NIHR201839: Holistic care for health beyond TB

Lead Applicant: Professor Carlton Evans, Imperial College London

Joint Lead Applicant: Ms Marilu Chiang, PRISMA

Conflicts: Professor Kath Maitland, Professor Luis Cuevas

Outcome: Declined

1.12 NIHR201776: A mHealth-supported multi-driven disease management platform addressing chronic multimorbidity in China (4M study)

Lead Applicant: Professor Graham , Queen Mary University of London

Joint Lead Applicant: A/Professor Puhong Zhang, The George Institute for Global Health

Conflicts: Professor Jonathan Valabhji

Outcome: Declined

1.13 NIHR201708: Multimorbidity-associated emergency hospital admissions: a “screen and link” strategy to improve outcomes for high-risk patients in sub-Saharan Africa

Lead Applicant: Dr Jamie Rylance, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Joint Lead Applicant: Dr Felix Limbani, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme

Conflicts: Professor Sassy Molyneux, Professor Luis Cuevas

Outcome: Funded

1.14 NIHR201816: Development and evaluation of a targeted, integrated, coherent and people-centred approach to the management of Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC-M) in South African primary healthcare

Lead Applicant: Professor Lara Fairall, King's College London

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Naomi Levitt, University of Cape Town

Conflicts: Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Luis Cuevas, Professor Joe Jarvis, Professor Saidi Kapiga, Professor Sassy Molyneux, Professor Kath Maitland, Professor Jonathan Valabhij

Outcome: Funded

1.15 NIHR201791: Reducing the Disease Burden of Stroke in HIV-endemic Malawi

Lead Applicant: Professor Tom Solomon, University of Liverpool

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Victor Mwapasa, University of Malawi

Conflicts: Professor Luis Cuevas, Professor Marcello Barcinski, Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Prabha Chandra, Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor Sassy Molyneux

Outcome: Declined

1.16 NIHR201721: Reducing the neglected burden of multimorbidity in children with Disorders of Intellectual Development (DID) in Northeast India

Lead Applicant: Associate Professor Manisha Nair, University of Oxford

Joint Lead Applicant: Dr Mythili Hazarika, Guwahati Medical College Hospital

Conflicts: Professor Sassy Molyneux, Professor Catherine Harmer, Professor Prabha Chandra

Outcome: Declined

1.17 NIHR201829: IMPACT - Innovating with Mhealth in Peru for dementiA and Co-morbidiTies

Lead Applicant: Dr Christopher Butler, Imperial College London

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Jaime Miranda, Cayetano Heredia University

Conflicts: Professor Kath Maitland

Outcome: Declined

1.18 NIHR201813: Multimorbidity in children with HIV and severe acute malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

Lead Applicant: Professor Andrew Prendergast, Queen Mary University of London

Joint Lead Applicant: Dr Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, University of Zimbabwe

Conflicts: Professor Joseph Jarvis, Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor Jo Wilmshurst, Professor Sassy Molyneux, Professor Saidi Kapiga

Outcome: Funded

1.19 NIHR201713: Can we improve health outcomes in people with TB multimorbidity by providing an essential care package for non-communicable diseases?

Lead Applicant: Professor Kamran Siddiqi, University of York

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Arshad Javaid, Khyber Medical University

Conflicts: Dr Rahul Shidhaye, Professor Prabha Chandra, Professor Jonathan Valabhji

Outcome: Declined

1.20 NIHR201764: Harmful tobacco use among people with severe mental illness in South Asia: the SCIMITAR-IMPACT-4SA programme to address multimorbidity and tobacco-related harms

Lead Applicant: Professor Simon Gilbody, University of York

Joint Lead Applicant: Professor Pratima Murthy, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India

Conflicts: Professor Prabha Chandra, Dr Rahul Shidhaye

Outcome: Declined