Funding opportunity

Reducing global health non-communicable disease risk for young people

• Opportunity status: Closed
• Funders: Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Co-funders: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)
• Funding type: Grant
• Total fund: £5,000,000
• Publication date: 17 January 2022
• Opening date: 17 January 2022
• Closing date: 31 May 2022 11:59pm UK time

Apply for global health funding to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases through implementation research.

You must:

• be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding
• work in partnership with co-investigators based in low or middle income countries (LMICs) where the work will take place.

Your research must:

• take a life course approach
• focus on people aged 10 to 24 in LMICs.

Up to £5,000,000 is available (subject to quality). We expect to fund several projects.

Your project must run for three to five years.

Before applying, you must complete an ‘intention to submit’ by 19 April 2022.

This grant is run in partnership with NIHR and GACD. Find the full details of the scheme and apply on the GACD website.

Contact details

Get help with developing your proposal

For help and advice on costings and writing your proposal, please contact your research office in the first instance, allowing sufficient time for your organisation’s submission process.

Ask about this funding opportunity

Email: international@mrc.ukri.org

Include ‘GACD’ in the subject line.