The Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health is inviting proposals for the Emerging Global Leader Award to provide research support and protected time (three to five years) to an early career research scientist from a low- or middle-income country (LMIC) who holds a junior faculty position at an LMIC academic or research institution, as defined by the World Bank.
The objective of the Emerging Global Leader
Award (K43) is to support research scientists from low-or middle-income
countries (LMICs) who hold a junior faculty positions at academic or research
institutions. In many LMIC institutions there is little support for junior
faculty with long-term research training to launch an independent research
career due to lack of protected time for research activities, inadequate pilot
research project funding opportunities, insufficient training in advanced
research methodology and data analysis, lack of mentorship in manuscript and
grant writing and meager institutional support for developing, submitting and
administering research applications and awards.
This intensive, mentored research career
development experience under the guidance of experienced LMIC and US mentors is
expected to foster an independently funded research career for the most
promising LMIC junior research scientist faculty. Overall, it is expected
that this program will increase the scientific capacity for health research at
LMIC institutions and foster long term research collaborations with US
scientists.
Funding Information
- NIH will contribute up to $75,000
(for a minimum of 75% effort or 9 person months) per year toward the
salary of the career award recipient.
- NIH will contribute up to $
30,000 per year toward the research development costs of the award
recipient, which must be justified and consistent with the stage of
development of the candidate and the proportion of time to be spent in
research or career development activities.
- The total project period
should be a minimum of 3 years and may not exceed 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-domestic (non-US) Entities
(Foreign Institutions).
- Applications for the K43 award
must be submitted by academic education or research institutions in LMICs.
- Only non-domestic (non-US)
Entities (Foreign Institutions) in Low- or Middle-Income Countries
are eligible to apply.
Post Date: 09-Sep-2021