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Planning Grants for International Malaria Clinical, Operational, & Health Services Research Training Programs (MALARIA ICOHRTA) (D71)

Purpose

Planning grant applications for malaria research training programs in clinical, operational and public health services for clinical, public health and social scientists and health care professionals in the countries targeted by the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) (Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia) are invited. The planning grants supported in response to this announcement will enable U.S. and PMI country collaborators to assess research training resources and needs and develop comprehensive research training program proposals. Specifically, planning grants will provide support for U.S. or African applicants from PMI designated countries to:

1. Plan five year programs to provide integrated clinical, operational and public health services research training related to all currently available malaria prevention and treatment interventions used in malaria vector control, rapid diagnosis, effective drug therapy, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women and children and health services delivery to rural endemic areas.
2. Examine the gaps in knowledge and expertise in the evaluation of best practices related to currently available malaria interventions in a PMI country and plan how best to provide research training to fill these gaps.
3. Design mentored research experiences, research training workshops, practicum activities and graduate school curriculum related to malaria control activities.
4. Collaborate with public and private malaria control organizations in one PMI designated country to design a program structure that facilitates rapid incorporation of malaria clinical, operational and public health services research results into widespread practice in their activities.
5. Identify and obtain administrative, financial management and research ethics training, faculty development, research training resource materials needed to undertake a sustainable comprehensive research training program.

Program announcement:

Request for Applications Number: PAR-08-200

Letters of Intent Receipt date(s): August 15, 2008, August 17, 2009, August 16, 2010.

Application Receipt date(s): September 15, 2008, September 15, 2009, September 15, 2010

Peer Review date(s): February/March 2009, February/March 2010, February/March 2011

Council Review date(s): May 2009, May 2010, May 2011

Earliest Anticipated Start date: July 2009, July 2010, July 2011

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Contacts

Dr. Barbara Sina

Program Director
Fogarty International Center
Division of International Training and Research
National Institutes of Health
Building 31, Room B2C39
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone (301) 402-9467
Fax: (301) 402-0779

Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards

The Fogarty International Center expects to provide a total of $50,000 to $100,000 total costs (direct and F & A) per year to fund two to four new planning grant awards each year FY 2009-FY 2011. Budgets for direct costs of up to $23,000 per year and project duration of one year may be requested.

Eligible Institutions/Organizations

The following organizations/institutions are eligible to apply:

• Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
• Private Institutions of Higher Education
• Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations)

Non-profit organizations, public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories in the U.S. or PMI countries are eligible to apply. Institutions in African PMI countries (Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia) or U.S. institutions are eligible to apply. U.S. applicants must apply with a PMI country research institution with which they have a demonstrable history of research collaboration. To best support the building of sustainable research capacity, only those African PMI country institutions that can document a significant and active record of malaria research grant support should apply. African PMI country institutions should apply in collaboration with U.S. institutions that are capable of enhancing their proposed research training activities.

Eligible Project Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs)

Applicants must be the principal investigator or co-investigator on a malaria clinical, operational or public health services research grant supporting studies conducted in an African malaria-endemic country. The applicant must hold a faculty or long-term research position at a public or private non-profit research institution. More than one PD/PI, or multiple PDs/PIs, may be designated on the application.

Number of Applications

U.S. applicant individuals may only submit one application. Only one application will be funded from any African PMI country institution.

November 2008