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How do you define global health?
Food safety in China • Masculinity and health behavior in South Africa • Substance abuse in Canada • Rapid cultural change and health in Siberia • Glaucoma in India
These are just a few of the projects that have received funding from the GHP program.
The world's toughest health problems are not merely matters of biology. They are inextricably linked with culture, economics, language, physical geography and natural resources, to name a few.
Their solutions, therefore, require a broad set of disciplines, theories, methods, and the participation of a variety of constituents and communities. Academic institutions must work in an environment that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and innovative.
In an interdependent world, distinctions between domestic and international health are losing their usefulness. Ill health in any population affects all people.
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The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) and the Office of Global Health in the Gillings School of Global Public Health (OGH) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are pleased to announce a fifth round of funding for the Global Health Faculty Research Partnership Grants (GHP) program. Designed to foster the development of multidisciplinary research projects and partnerships in global health, grants will be made to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty for international travel or to bring international colleagues to campus to establish or maintain research relationships (e.g., clarifying joint research interests, planning and organizing institutional linkages, jointly developing or writing research proposals to funding agencies, etc.). If international colleagues are brought to campus, we highly encourage you to have your colleague give a university-wide seminar (the Office of Global Health can assist in coordinating such a seminar). GHP grant funds cannot be used to support data collection or other research activity or attendance at meetings and conferences.
Approximately 4-5 grants will be made in spring 2011 in amounts up to $5,000.
Preference will be given to applications that will (1) assist faculty who are new to health-related research in international settings and wish to establish a new research collaboration; (2) demonstrate collaboration between those faculty and others currently supported by NIH or other federal grants programs; and (3) benefit the larger University in some way. Other review criteria will include strength of proposal, interdisciplinary approach, and likelihood of receiving research funding from other sources to support the proposed collaboration. Applications will also be considered from experienced global health researchers. Faculty (tenure and research track) from all units at UNC-Chapel Hill are eligible to apply for funding. If you have received support from this source in the past, you are only eligible to apply for additional funding if you are pursuing a new partnership not previously support by this funding mechanism.
In 2006, 2007 and 2009 the
Office of Global Health awarded 28 faculty almost $115,000 in travel
grants to establish research collaborations in a number of countries
including Brazil, India, Colombia, Ecuador, Bangladesh, China, Ghana,
Canada and Honduras. This funding has generated an additional $1.7
million in external grant awards.
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Application Process
The entire application should consist of up to five pages, double-spaced that describe:
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The research project to be developed;
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The applicant's current academic position and background relevant to the proposed research;
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The foreign collaborating faculty member(s) and his/her institution and any existing linkages;
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Benefits such as development or reinforcement of international institutional relationships for the University; and
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The budget, cost justification, travel itinerary, and proposed dates of travel.
Please attach biosketches or CVs of all researchers involved in the project, as well as letters of support from colleagues (not included in the 5-page limit).
The GHP award will be made as a travel reimbursement upon the completion of proposed travel by UNC faculty. If you are bringing a colleague to campus, plane tickets and other related travel expenses can be paid for directly by IGHID.
All travel and financial expenditures and reporting carried out under the GHP program must comply with UNC regulations and procedures (e.g., established UNC per diem rates) and with federal guidelines (e.g., Fly America provisions of federally-funded international travel). The award cannot be used to fund travel for students.
We are no longer accepting applications for this round of funding (spring 2011). If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Global Health at ogh@unc.edu.
Applicants will be notified of the review panel's decisions not later than
Monday, January 17, 2011. Grant-funded travel will be authorized to begin on or after Tuesday, February 1, 2011 and should be completed within one year.
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For more information, please contact:
Office of Global Health
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
CB#7400, 124 Rosenau
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400
Awardees will provide the OGH with a written report of results, outcomes and benefits produced by GHP-funded international travel not later than September 1, or thirty (30) days, following their return to the Carolina campus. The report should include a description of the highlights or travel, places visited and persons met with, agreements reached concerning collaborative research, effects (if any) on institutional relations, and plans to secure funding and undertake the research project.
Applications which fail to meet any of the above requirements will not be reviewed.
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