GCRF: Recent project awards

The following newly recorded projects were funded by UKRI's Global Challenges Research Fund programme.
This information was downloaded on 1 February 2021 by the DevPubMetric system using data published in the UKRI Gateway to Research database over the preceeding month.

The total value of the 19 awards reported below is £14,436,310.


FunderReferenceProject TitleLead OrganisationAward ValueStart DateEnd Date
MRCMR/V035592/1Ensuring access to health care and medicines during COVID-19: critical challenges and feasible policy options for the medicines retail sectorLondon Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine£326,451Nov 2020Apr 2022
MRCMR/T029862/1Developing effective rodent control strategies to reduce disease risk in ecologically and culturally diverse rural landscapesUniversity of Aberdeen£1,848,209Jan 2021Dec 2023
MRCMR/T030283/1Elucidating molecular determinants of Trypanosoma cruzi persisters.University of Dundee£727,294Dec 2020Nov 2023
MRCMR/V033441/1COVID-19 Neurological Disease: a Global Meta-Analysis and Prospective Case Control Study in Brazil, India and Malawi.University of Liverpool£869,860Oct 2020Apr 2022
MRCMR/V030825/1The DOMINO Study: Measuring and mitigating the indirect effects of COVID-19 on TB and HIV care in IndonesiaLondon Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine£788,209Sep 2020Mar 2022
MRCMR/T03906X/1Understanding and measuring pregnancy-related anxiety in low- and middle-income contexts: A pilot study in northern GhanaUniversity for Development Studies£84,660Jan 2021Dec 2021
MRCMR/T029781/1Building healthy communities in urban Brazilian slumsUniversity of Liverpool£1,984,383Jan 2021Dec 2023
MRCMR/V033530/1Household Transmission and Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 among Paediatric Clients of a Primary Care Center in a Low-resource Community in Rio de JaneiroLondon Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine£566,408Nov 2020Apr 2022
MRCMR/T038489/1Intermittent preventive treatment with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine: a new malaria strategy to prevent adverse birth outcomes in Papua, IndonesiaLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine£970,244Jan 2021Aug 2023
MRCMR/T039345/1Improving maternal mental health in South East Asia through assets based approaches.University of Stirling£91,191Jan 2021Dec 2021
MRCMR/V036157/1CARE: COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance in East Africa - impact and responseUniversity of St Andrews£926,995Nov 2020May 2022
MRCMR/V036912/1Indigenous peoples responding to Covid-19 in Brazil: social arrangements in a Global Health emergencyCity University London£416,913Dec 2020Nov 2021
MRCMR/T029846/1IndiaZooRisk+: Using OneHealth approaches to understand and co-develop interventions for zoonotic diseases affecting forest communities in IndiaNERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology£2,060,163Jan 2021Dec 2023
MRCMR/T037962/1Establishing the Ethiopian Obstetric Surveillance System (EthOSS): building a regional network to monitor severe outcomes of pregnancyUniversity of Oxford£100,755Dec 2020Nov 2021
MRCMR/V030817/1Development and pilot testing of an m-health intervention to reduce COVID-19 associated psychosocial distress among Nigerian healthcare workersObafemi Awolowo University£166,029Oct 2020Jan 2022
MRCMR/T022175/1Consumer Cost-Sharing in Primary Care: Unintended Health and Economic OutcomesUniversity College London£175,026Aug 2020Aug 2022
MRCMR/V036890/1Serological tools for COVID-19 control and vaccine roll-out in Southeast AsiaLondon Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine£365,589Nov 2020May 2022
MRCMR/V030884/1African critical care registry network for pandemic surveillance, clinical management and research.University of Oxford£1,107,938Sep 2020Mar 2022
MRCMR/V029363/1The impact of COVID-19 on primary health care service provision and utilisation in Tanzania, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of CongoLondon Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine£859,993Oct 2020Oct 2021