Grant opportunities

Open Call – Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) First Joint Research Activity

This funding opportunity on Implementation Research on Hypertension in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) is the first coordinated research program of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD), a consortium of health organizations that includes the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to develop a better understanding of key barriers at local, national and international levels that affect hypertension control and to consider how these implementation challenges can be overcome
• to understand how innovations for hypertension control can be introduced and scaled-up across a range of settings
• to identify what elements of systems most need to be strengthened to prevent hypertension and its consequences (e.g. stroke)
• to improve hypertension control rates while reducing disparities in hypertension control across population sub-groups

In order to be considered eligible, teams must include researchers that are based in Canadaand LMIC countries, as defined by the World Bank <http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications< (with the exception of India and China).

Research with Canada's Aboriginal populations is also eligible and in these cases, having international partners is not a requirement.

The maximum amount per grant is $400,000 for up to 5 years.

Application deadline: September 1st, 2011