Funding Opportunities
The following funding opportunities are available to Duke faculty interested in global health, social entrepreneurship, and innovation:
Funding Opportunity Announcement: SEAD Social Entrepreneurship & Global Health Innovation Research
SEAD’s research objective is to contribute to a broadened and enhanced understanding of the conditions that foster or inhibit effective, sustainable, scalable innovations in health and healthcare, with particular relevance to low and lower middle income countries. To achieve this broadened understanding, SEAD is soliciting research applications from Duke faculty across disciplines in efforts that help meet this objective; proposals are due July 3rd, 2014. For more information, please download the RFP here and budget template here.
Contact:
Join us for SEAD RFP Q&A Sessions
Have questions about the RFP you would like to ask in person? We will be hosting two Q&A sessions about the RFP. Please join us!
Wednesday, May 28th, 11:00am: Fuqua School of Business; Seminar Room A (2nd floor Keller East)
Friday, May 30th, 1:00pm: Trent Hall Room 124
Duke Global Health Institute -- Request for Proposals -- Pilot Funding
Engineering and Global Health [Duke Internal Funding -- Restricted to Duke Faculty Only]
Based on Duke’s rich tradition of interdisciplinary work and drawing on the intellectual assets of the entire University to address global issues, the Duke Global Health Institute seeks to reduce disparities in health through programs and activities in global health education, research, service and policy.
Likewise, the vision of the Pratt School of Engineering is that faculty will be catalysts for generating and integrating knowledge across the disciplines required to address complex issues facing a global society. Harnessing the research experience, insight and creative energy of these dynamic faculty in engineering and global health has the potential to successfully address complex global health problems.
Through this RFP, the Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Global Health Institute are offering funding for pilot research projects that involve an interdisciplinary research approach to engineering and global health. We will provide pilot funds to stimulate interdisciplinary research between DGHI and Pratt faculty with the larger goal of enabling investigators to leverage preliminary findings and data to obtain larger awards of external funding and develop collaborations in low and middle income countries. New investigators and/or new collaborations and projects in global health research are encouraged to apply and will be given special consideration.
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2013. See
https://researchfunding.duke.edu/Detail.asp?OppID=12736 for more information.
Michigan State University $100,000 Innovation Grants - Food Security
The MSU Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) is requesting application for innovation grants to address global food security issues in East Africa. We will award $100,000 innovation grants. The Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) is one of eight new development labs funded by USAID in their Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN).
The core of the GCFSI mission is finding, incubating and evaluating new and potentially disruptive knowledge and technology based solutions to development challenges. This request for applications (RFA) is seeking applicants who can help create innovation in the global food system.
For this inaugural competition, the GCFSI is seeking to increase collaboration, catalyze the formation of multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams and build connections within the HESN and other institutions while building capacity for understanding challenges in global food systems.
The time line is very tight. Short concept notes are due September 10, 2013.
See http://gcfsi.isp.msu.edu/ for more information.
Duke University - Duke Africa Initiative Call for Proposals [Duke Internal Funding -- Restricted to Duke Faculty Only]
Synopsis:
The Steering Committee of the Africa Initiative wishes to announce a call for applications to fund small projects or working groups that will take place in the spring 2014 semester. We envision supporting up to four projects that meet the following criteria:
• During this phase of the initiative we are interested in generating networks and synergies among scholars with common interests at Duke, and therefore we will only be funding projects that take place on Duke's campus, not those in Africa itself.
• Projects should be collaborative and cross-disciplinary in nature, perhaps organized around a common theme (water, technology transfer, China-Africa) or as a way to develop new relationships across schools.
• They may take the shape of a speaker series, a mini-conference, or a reading group, among other interdisciplinary/collaborative formats. If the proposal focuses in these areas, at least a portion of these activities should be open to all members of the Duke community.
• All applications must be submitted by a Duke Faculty member, and all Duke Faculty are eligible to apply.
• Special consideration will be given to those proposals that use a vertically integrated model that includes undergraduate and graduate students in the proposed project and/or working group.
• We anticipate making awards in the $5000-8000 range.
Please visit the Africa Initiative website for more information about the projects that have received funding in the past: http://sites.duke.edu/africainitiative/funding/2012-2013-ai-funding-recipients/
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2013
The official announcement and description of this opportunity may be found on the funding agency's website:
http://sites.duke.edu/africainitiative/
Funding requests should be sent to Anna Alcaro () no later than October 1, 2013. Applicant’s will hear about the status of their applications by the end of October.
External Deadline: 10/1/2013
SEAD’s research objective is to contribute to a broadened and enhanced understanding of the conditions that foster or inhibit effective, sustainable, scalable innovations in health and healthcare, with particular relevance to low and lower middle income countries. To achieve this broadened understanding, SEAD is soliciting research applications from Duke faculty across disciplines in efforts that help meet this objective; proposals are due July 3rd, 2014. For more information, please download the RFP here and budget template here.
Contact:
Join us for SEAD RFP Q&A Sessions
Have questions about the RFP you would like to ask in person? We will be hosting two Q&A sessions about the RFP. Please join us!
Wednesday, May 28th, 11:00am: Fuqua School of Business; Seminar Room A (2nd floor Keller East)
Friday, May 30th, 1:00pm: Trent Hall Room 124
Duke Global Health Institute -- Request for Proposals -- Pilot Funding
Engineering and Global Health [Duke Internal Funding -- Restricted to Duke Faculty Only]
Based on Duke’s rich tradition of interdisciplinary work and drawing on the intellectual assets of the entire University to address global issues, the Duke Global Health Institute seeks to reduce disparities in health through programs and activities in global health education, research, service and policy.
Likewise, the vision of the Pratt School of Engineering is that faculty will be catalysts for generating and integrating knowledge across the disciplines required to address complex issues facing a global society. Harnessing the research experience, insight and creative energy of these dynamic faculty in engineering and global health has the potential to successfully address complex global health problems.
Through this RFP, the Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Global Health Institute are offering funding for pilot research projects that involve an interdisciplinary research approach to engineering and global health. We will provide pilot funds to stimulate interdisciplinary research between DGHI and Pratt faculty with the larger goal of enabling investigators to leverage preliminary findings and data to obtain larger awards of external funding and develop collaborations in low and middle income countries. New investigators and/or new collaborations and projects in global health research are encouraged to apply and will be given special consideration.
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2013. See
https://researchfunding.duke.edu/Detail.asp?OppID=12736 for more information.
Michigan State University $100,000 Innovation Grants - Food Security
The MSU Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) is requesting application for innovation grants to address global food security issues in East Africa. We will award $100,000 innovation grants. The Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) is one of eight new development labs funded by USAID in their Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN).
The core of the GCFSI mission is finding, incubating and evaluating new and potentially disruptive knowledge and technology based solutions to development challenges. This request for applications (RFA) is seeking applicants who can help create innovation in the global food system.
For this inaugural competition, the GCFSI is seeking to increase collaboration, catalyze the formation of multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams and build connections within the HESN and other institutions while building capacity for understanding challenges in global food systems.
The time line is very tight. Short concept notes are due September 10, 2013.
See http://gcfsi.isp.msu.edu/ for more information.
Duke University - Duke Africa Initiative Call for Proposals [Duke Internal Funding -- Restricted to Duke Faculty Only]
Synopsis:
The Steering Committee of the Africa Initiative wishes to announce a call for applications to fund small projects or working groups that will take place in the spring 2014 semester. We envision supporting up to four projects that meet the following criteria:
• During this phase of the initiative we are interested in generating networks and synergies among scholars with common interests at Duke, and therefore we will only be funding projects that take place on Duke's campus, not those in Africa itself.
• Projects should be collaborative and cross-disciplinary in nature, perhaps organized around a common theme (water, technology transfer, China-Africa) or as a way to develop new relationships across schools.
• They may take the shape of a speaker series, a mini-conference, or a reading group, among other interdisciplinary/collaborative formats. If the proposal focuses in these areas, at least a portion of these activities should be open to all members of the Duke community.
• All applications must be submitted by a Duke Faculty member, and all Duke Faculty are eligible to apply.
• Special consideration will be given to those proposals that use a vertically integrated model that includes undergraduate and graduate students in the proposed project and/or working group.
• We anticipate making awards in the $5000-8000 range.
Please visit the Africa Initiative website for more information about the projects that have received funding in the past: http://sites.duke.edu/africainitiative/funding/2012-2013-ai-funding-recipients/
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2013
The official announcement and description of this opportunity may be found on the funding agency's website:
http://sites.duke.edu/africainitiative/
Funding requests should be sent to Anna Alcaro () no later than October 1, 2013. Applicant’s will hear about the status of their applications by the end of October.
External Deadline: 10/1/2013
