The Global Public Health Awards support development of independent investigators from low and middle-income countries with an interest in supporting country driven research priorities to meet sustainable development goals for people infected with or at risk for viral Hepatitis (B,C,D) and/or HIV.

The objective of the research proposals should be to strengthen the cascade for surveillance, screening, linkage to care/ treatment, and prevention with a focus on implementation science. Applicants need not focus on all aspects of the care cascade but can focus on any one of the aspects.

Focus research areas may include but are not limited to:

• Basic, epidemiologic, clinical, behavioral, public health and social science research across viral hepatitis effectiveness and impact evaluation or health economics
• Attention to issues of prevention, care and treatment
• Pathophysiology and therapeutics research to address infection, the effects of viral hepatitis or HIV on body systems and their interaction with other co-morbidities and co-infections, for example, Covid-19
• Implementation, operations, health services and health systems research to improve the viral hepatitis prevention, care and treatment care continuum
• Community-based research on complex, multi-component interventions, structural interventions, comparative sources expended, program costs, cost-effectiveness or other economic outcomes
• Methods and models for stakeholder analyses pertinent to desired outcomes (for patients, families, providers, administrators and policymakers)
• Increasing the evidence for the use of digital technology to improve clinical and public health outcomes
• Cross-disciplinary viral hepatitis/HIV research among vulnerable or under-researched low-middle income countries populations, including women, substance (drug and alcohol) users, men who have sex with men, transgendered populations, aging populations, orphans and children
• Innovative models for differentiated service delivery, esp., integrated service delivery or decentralized care
• Innovative models to adopt to challenges of pandemics and disasters (esp., Covid-19)

Awards granted under the program may not be duplicative of funding from institutional or hospital, other governmental, non-governmental, or industry sources. Applicants seeking an award for research projects that are currently receiving or may receive partial funding from other sources are required to submit appropriate evidence, including budget information related to the other sources, to demonstrate that there is no direct overlap in funding.

Proposals utilizing Gilead product(s) are not eligible for funding through the Research Scholars Program. Proposals involving Gilead product(s) should be submitted for review under the Investigator-Sponsored Research Grant Program through the ISR online portal.

Proposals are reviewed by an independent Scientific Review Committee, (no Commercial involvement in review or selection, i.e., Marketing, Sales, and Commercial Strategy), and are reviewed based upon the criteria outlined on this website.