Training
Grants
AIDS
International Training and Research Program (AITRP)
This
program supports HIV/AIDS–related research training to
strengthen the capacity of institutions in developing
countries and Newly Independent States (NIS). Grants
are awarded to US and developed country institutions with
strong HIV- related research training experience and with
HIV-related research collaborations with institutions in
developing countries and NIS. These institutions, in
partnership with their foreign collaborating institutions,
identify foreign health scientists, clinicians, and allied
health workers from the foreign countries to participate
in their joint research training programs.
The
primary goal of this program is to build
multi-disciplinary biomedical and behavioral research
capacity for the prevention of
HIV/AIDS-related infections and for the integration
of prevention with therapy and care for those adults and
children affected by HIV/AIDS in the collaborating
country.
The new AITRP Program Announcement
can be found at PA-03-018.
Information about the current AITRP programs can be found
at the AITRP
web page
Fogarty
International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research
Training Program (ICTIRT)
This new
program addresses the growing burden of morbidity and
mortality in the developing world due to trauma and
injury. The program is supported by FIC, seven NIH
partners, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, the Pan
American Health Organization, and the World Health
Organization (WHO). It addresses training across the range
of basic to applied science, the epidemiology of risk
factors, acute care and survival, rehabilitation, and
long-term mental health
consequences.
NIH
News Release: April 7, 2004
Program
Announcement (PAR-04-083)
Letter of Intent
Deadline: July 25, 2004; July 25, 2005; July 25,
2006
Application
Receipt Deadline: August 25, 2004; August 25, 2005;
August 25, 2006
Global Infectious Disease Research Training
Program
This program enables institutions in the
United States or in developing foreign countries to
support current and future collaborative research related
training on infectious diseases that are predominately
endemic in or impact upon people living in developing
countries.
Program
Announcement (PA-03-012)
Letter of Intent
Deadline: December 20, 2004
Application Receipt
Deadline: January 24, 2005
Informatics
Training for Global Health
This RFA is intended to encourage the
development of informatics training programs that will
contribute to global health research and informatics
capacity in low- to middle-income countries in partnership
with U.S. institutions.
Letter of
Intent Deadline: September 26,
2003
Application Receipt Date: October
23, 2003
Request
for Applications (TW-03-008)
NIH
News Release: June 30, 2003
International
Bioethics Education and Career Development
Award (R25
mechanism)
This program allows nonprofit,
private or public, domestic or international, educational
and research institutions to develop or expand on current
graduate curricula in international bioethics related to
performing research in low- and middle-income nations.
Applications are accepted in response to a Request for
Applications (RFA).
Letter of Intent Deadline:
November 17, 2003
Application Receipt Date:
December 16, 2003
Request
for Applications (TW-04-001)
In the News:
April 2002 —
Association of American Medical Colleges
International
Clinical, Operational, and Health Services Research and
Training Award (ICOHRTA) (D43
mechanism)
This
program supports training to facilitate collaborative,
multidisciplinary, international clinical, operational,
health services and prevention science research between
U.S. institutions and those in developing countries, as
well as emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, Russia,
and the Newly Independent States (NIS). Information
about current ICOHRTA programs and instructions for
prospective trainees hoping to participate in this program
are available at this website.
NIH
News Release: November 16, 2001
In
the News: November 21, 2001, Washington Fax
International
Clinical, Operational, and Health Services Research and
Training Award for AIDS and Tuberculosis (ICOHRTA-AIDS/TB)
This
program supports integrated clinical, operational and
health services research training to strengthen the
capacity of institutions in developing countries and Newly
Independent States (NIS) where AIDS, TB, or both
are significant problems. In Phase I, one-year
planning grants to support the development of full
research training applications in Phase II are awarded to
institutions in developing countries and NIS with strong
HIV- or TB-related research experience. In Phase II,
grants to support a research training program are awarded
to Phase I awardees and to their US and developed country
institutions partners with which they have strong HIV- or
TB-related research collaborations. The primary goal
of this program is to build integrated clinical,
operational, and health services research across the full
range of conditions and issues that relate to care of
adult and pediatric patients with HIV/AIDS or
TB.
The Program Announcement (PA) for Phase I can
be found at (PA-02-022)
and Request for Applications (RFA) for Phase II
at (RFA
TW-03-003). Information about current grantees
are available at the ICOHRTA-AIDS/TB website.
NIH
News Release: November 30,
2001
In
the News: July 2002 Global HealthLink
International
Collaborative Genetics Research Training
Program (D43
mechanism)
This
program will enhance and promote equitable international
collaborations between investigators in the developed
world and those in developing countries where a base level
of institutional infrastructure for the advancement of
sustainable genetic science is already established.
Applications are being solicited to create innovative
research training programs within existing scientific
collaborations between developed and developing country
researchers to begin to build a critical mass of
scientists, health professionals and academics with human
genetics expertise and a sustainable research environment
at the collaborating developing country
institution.
NIH
News Release: December 14, 2001
In
the News: December 18, 2001, SciDev.Net
In
the News: December 31, 2001, Washington Fax
NIH
News Release: October 22, 2002
In
the News: October 24, 2002, Chronicle of Higher
Education
International
Maternal and Child Health Research and Training Program
(MCH) (D43
mechanism)
This
program enables U.S. institutions to support
training-related research on maternal and child health
issues that are predominately endemic in or impact upon
people living in developing countries. This is an
institutional training grant. Applications are accepted
from U.S. institutions in response to a specific request
for applications. Individuals from foreign nations who
wish to become trainees must apply to the project director
of an awarded grant.
International
Training and Research Program in Environmental and
Occupational Health (D43
mechanism)
This
program enables U.S. universities and non-profit research
institutions to support international training and
research programs for foreign scientists from developing
nations in general environmental health and occupational
health. This is an institutional training grant.
Applications are accepted from U.S. institutions in
response to a specific request for applications which is
published once every five years; the first awards were
made in 1995. Individuals from foreign countries who wish
to become trainees must apply to the project director of
an awarded grant.
International
Training and Research Program in Population and
Health (D43
mechanism)
This
program enables U.S. universities and non-profit research
institutions to support international training and
research programs for foreign scientists from developing
nations in population-related sciences. This is an
institutional training grant. Applications are accepted
from U.S. institutions who are current NIH grant
recipients in response to a specific request for
applications which is published once every five years.
Individuals from foreign countries who wish to become
trainees must apply to the project director of an awarded
grant.
International
Training Program in Medical Informatics (ITMI) (D43
mechanism)
This
program enables U.S. non-profit or public institutions to
support international training in order to build the
capacity of biomedical scientists, clinicians, librarians
and other health professionals in developing countries to
access, utilize and construct computer-based tools that
may best advance biomedical research and public health in
those countries. This is an institutional training grant.
Applications are accepted from U.S. institutions in
response to a specific request for applications.
Individuals from foreign nations who wish to become
trainees must apply to the project director of an awarded
grant.
ITMI
In the News: August 19, 2000, British Medical Journal
Minority
International Research Training Grant (MIRT) (T37
mechanism)
This
program enables U.S. colleges and universities to support
international training and research opportunities for U.S.
minorities underrepresented in the scientific professions.
This is an institutional training grant. Applications are
accepted from U.S. institutions in response to a specific
request for applications. Undergraduate students and
graduate students interested in becoming trainees should
apply to the project director of an awarded grant.
Research Grants
Brain
Disorders in the Developing World: Research
Across the
Lifespan
Request
for Applications
(TW-03-007)
Letter of intent deadline: February 11,
2003
Receipt deadline: March 11,
2003
NIH
News Release: First Awards for Collaborative Research
Program on Brain Disorders
NIH
News Release: Fogarty International Center Announces
Collaborative Research Program on Brain
Disorders
6th
IBRO World Conference
in Prague, Czech Republic July 13, 2003:
Summary of Workshop on International Funding Opportunities
and Grantsmanship for Neuroscientists from Low- and
Middle- Income
Countries
Ecology
of Infectious Diseases (R01
mechanism)
This
program funds interdisciplinary research programs that
strive to elucidate the underlying ecological and
biological mechanisms that govern the relationships
between anthropogenic environmental changes and the
transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The focus of
this program is on the development of predictive models
for the emergence and transmission of diseases in humans
and other animals, and ultimately the development of
strategies to prevent or control them.
Fogarty
International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) (R03
mechanism)
This
program provides funds ($32,000/year direct costs) to
foster international research partnerships between
NIH-supported U.S. scientists and their collaborators in
countries of the developing world. The FIRCA program aims
to benefit the research interests of both the U.S. and
foreign collaborators while increasing research capacity
at the foreign site. U.S. scientists who have an
eligible NIH grant may apply. All areas of
biomedical and behavioral research supported by NIH are
eligible FIRCA research topics.
Participating
NIH Institutes
PLEASE NOTE
CHANGE IN COLLABORATING COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-TW-04-002.html
Global
Health Research Initiative Program for New Foreign
Investigators (GRIP) (R01
mechanism)
This
initiative is intended to promote productive
re-entry of NIH-trained foreign investigators into their
home countries as part of a broader program to enhance the
scientific research infrastructure in developing
countries, to stimulate research on a wide variety
of high priority
health-related issues in these countries, and to advance
NIH efforts to address health issues of global
import. The
GRIP will provide partial salaries to the foreign
researcher returning home and will provide support for
research projects.
NIH
News Release: December 3, 2002
NIH
News Release: February 12, 2002
In
the News: February 14, 2002,
BioMedNet
In the News: February 21, 2002,
Nature
Health,
Environment, and Economic Development (HEED)
Program
(R21 mechanism)
This
Request for Applications (RFA) is intended to encourage
developmental and exploratory research and research
capacity-building in developing countries on topics that
combine the issues of health, environment, and economic
development.
Request
for Applications (TW-03-005)
Letter of Intent
Deadline: November 30, 2002
Application Deadline:
January 14, 2003
International
Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) (U01 mechanism)
This
program integrates drug discovery from natural products
with conservation of biodiversity and economic development
in source countries. The program is jointly funded by the
National Institutes of Health, the National Science
Foundation, and the Foreign Agriculture Service of the
USDA. There are currently six active
projects.
Request
for Applications (TW-03-004)
Letter of Intent
Deadline: January 20, 2003
Application Deadline:
February, 2003
International
Studies on Health and Economic
Development (R01
mechanism)
This
program supports projects that examine the effects of
health on microeconomic agents (individuals, households
and enterprises) and aggregate growth (cross-country
growth analysis), as well as explores how health finance
and delivery systems are a source of variation in health
outcomes. Studies will focus on issues relevant to
populations in low- and middle-income nations.
NIH News
Release: April 2001
International
Tobacco and Health Research and Capacity Building
Program (R01 mechanism)
This program encourages
transdisciplinary approaches to the international tobacco
epidemic to reduce the global burden of tobacco related
illness. The
program is designed to promote international cooperation
between investigators in the U.S. and other high-income
nation(s)
pursuing research programs on tobacco control, and
scientists and institutions in low- and middle-income
nation(s), where tobacco consumption is a current or
anticipated public health urgency.
NIH
News Release: September
2002
Stigma
and Global Health Research
Program (R01and R21
mechanisms)
The purpose of this program
is to
stimulate interdisciplinary, investigator-initiated
research on the role of stigma in health, and on how to
intervene to prevent or mitigate its negative effects on
the health and welfare of individuals, groups and
societies world-wide.
Request
for Applications (TW-03-001)
Letter of Intent
Deadline: October 14, 2002
Application Deadline:
November 14, 2002
NIH News
Release: August 2002
Career Awards
International
Research Scientist Development Award for U.S. Postdoctoral
Scientists (IRSDA) (K01 mechanism
- Career Award)
This
program supports basic research, behavioral and clinical
scientists at the postdoctoral level who are committed to
a career in international health research and would
benefit from an additional period of mentored research as
part of a strong, established collaboration between a U.S.
sponsor and leading scientists at a developing country
center of scientific excellence.
Program
Announcement (PAR-04-058)
Other NIH Opportunities
Fellowship
Opportunities in Japan (JSPS)
The Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) provides opportunities for U.S. scientists
to conduct research at universities, inter-university
research institutes, and designated research institutes
and scientific research corporations in Japan. Application
schedules vary. As the funding agency, JSPS makes final
funding decisions.
FIC
/ Ellison Clinical Research for U.S. Graduate
Students
The Fogarty
International Center, with support from the Ellison
Medical Foundation, is offering a one year clinical
research training experience abroad for graduate level
U.S. students in the health professions.
NIH
Visiting Program
This program provides support
for scientists who wish to conduct research at NIH
intramural laboratories.
Individuals interested in applying for a foreign
research grant, a research grant with a foreign component,
or a National Research Service Award (NRSA) through other NIH Institutes and
Centers may contact program officers in the relevant
area of science to inquire about the possibility.
The NIH Office
of Education provides information on training
opportunities at the NIH and searchable abstracts on the
research being conducted in NIH laboratories.
The Oncology
Research Faculty Development Program
The
National Cancer
Institute (NCI) supports this program for cancer
researchers from developing countries.
Short-Term
Scientist Exchange Program
The NCI
handles this exchange program that promotes collaborative
research between U.S. and foreign scientists through short
exchange visits.
NIDA
Fellowships
The National Institute of Drug
Abuse (NIDA) provides international opportunities.
Visit the NIDA
International Page for information about these
programs.
NIDCR
Programs
The National Institute of
Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) provides
international opportunities. Visit the NIDCR
Office of International Health Page for information on
these programs.
International
Neurological Sciences Fellowship Program
The
National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) provides
this fellowship for foreign scientists who wish to conduct
a fellowship in the United States. For information on the
provisions of the fellowship, contact:
Henry
Khachaturian,
Ph.D.
Training, Career Development, and Referral
Officer
National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 2154, MSC
9531
Bethesda, MD 20892 (for courier: Rockville, MD
20852)
Phone: (301) 496-4188
FAX: (301)
594-5929
Email: hk11b@nih.gov
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/research_training.htm
A pre-application to the World Health Organization is
required. For pre-application materials, contact:
Unit
on Neuroscience
Division of Mental Health and
Prevention of Substance Abuse
World Health
Organization
CH-1211 Geneva 27
SWITZERLAND
Telephone: 41-22-791-21-11
Fax: 41-22-791-07-46
Non-NIH
Opportunities
Many other agencies, organizations, and foundations
offer funding for international biomedical and behavioral
research projects. Please follow these links to find
more information. Please note that links to other
Internet sites are provided only for your
convenience. FIC is not responsible for the
availability or content of these external sites, nor does
FIC endorse, warrant, or guarantee the products, services,
or information described or offered at these other
Internet sites.
Please visit the FIC
Regional Activities page for links to
opportunities by geographic
region.
Please see the Directory
of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health
Sciences, a comprehensive compilation of
international opportunities in biomedical
research.
Community of Science:
http://www.cos.com/
Council of
American Overseas Research Centers:
http://www.caorc.org/
GrantsNet:
www.grantsnet.org
Howard
Hughes Medical Institute:
http://www.hhmi.org
Human
Frontier Science Program:
http://hfsp.org
Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation:
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de
International
Brain Research Organization (IBRO):
http://www.ibro.org
The James S.
McDonnell Foundation:
http://www.jsmf.org/
NATO
Science Program:
http://www.nato.int/science/
National
Research Council, Office of International Affairs:
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/oia/oiahome.nsf/
National
Science Foundation:
http://www.nsf.gov/home/int/
The
Rockefeller Foundation:
http://www.rockfound.org/display.asp?Context=1&Collection=1
The Santa Fe
Institute: http://www.santafe.edu/
U.S. Civilian
Research & Development Foundation:
http://www.crdf.org/
WHO
Tropical Disease Research Grants:
http://www.who.int/tdr/grants/grants/default.htm
The
Wellcome Trust:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/gra.html
FIC Program
Application Deadlines and Review Cycle Dates
Foreign-Funded programs have different application
deadlines. Please see Fellowship
Opportunities in Japan.
Institutional Training Grant applications are
accepted only in response to a specific Request for
Applications (RFA).
