Funding Opportunities: 

NIH Global Research Initiative Program (GRIP)
If you were a Fogarty trainee for two years (and in some cases one year plus other mentored experience), you may be eligible to apply for a GRIP Award. This initiative provides funding opportunities for foreign social and behavioral scientists, clinical investigators, nurses and other health professionals, with state-of-the-art knowledge of research methods. The award carries up to 5 years of funding at $50,000 per year. Behavioral scientists, see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-328.html;
Basic scientists, see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-394.html.

Recently Funded Award:

The planning stage of the project “Training & Research to Best Practice: The Malaria Partnership for Excellence” (Principal Investigator: Terrie E. Taylor, Michigan State University) has been funded under a Phase I Malaria ICOHRTA Award from the John E. Fogarty International Center.

In 2006, Malawi was included among the first seven named sub-Saharan countries to benefit from the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), an initiative seeking to reduce malaria mortality by 50% in 15 countries by 2010. The goal of this planning grant is to develop a training program in Malawi to help meet the monitoring and evaluation needs and requirements of the PMI activities to be implemented by the National Malaria Control Program and partners. Specific objectives of the training program include (1) development of the capacity required to monitor and evaluate activities with the PMI in Malawi, (2) improvement in the external grants management capacity in the University of Malawi College of Medicine by training administrative and accounting staff, and (3) identification of research projects relevant to PMI activities in Malawi. The planning grant would support a needs assessment and workshop to identify current expertise, training needs, and potential research areas. A needs assessment will be conducted using key informant interviews and focus groups with those working on PMI activities in content areas of data management, entomology, pharmacology, clinical epidemiology, parasitology, and social science. A specific needs assessment will be conducted regarding grants administration by a senior grants administrator. Results will be prepared, with oversight from an advisory committee, and discussed at a workshop. Workshop participants will then outline a training program responsive to the findings from the needs assessment. A full proposal for the training program will be the primary outcome from this project.