The following newly recorded projects were funded by UKRI's Global Challenges Research Fund programme.
This information was downloaded on 1 December 2020 by the DevPubMetric system using data published in the UKRI Gateway to Research database over the preceeding month.
The total value of the 31 awards reported below is £16,512,633.
Funder Reference Project Title Lead Organisation Award Value Start Date End Date AHRC AH/V003267/1 'Great Latin American Women'. Follow-on Funding for 'The Billiken Magazine Centenary Project' University of Sheffield £79,126 Oct 2020 Oct 2021 EPSRC EP/V043218/1 GCRF_NF292: Social and environmental impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnamese provinces bordering China and Laos following border closure University of Glasgow £287,528 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 EPSRC EP/V04317X/1 GCRF_NF362 Socio-economic, wellbeing and human rights related experiences of people with disabilities in Covid-19 times in South Africa Institute of Development Studies £110,685 Oct 2020 Jul 2021 EPSRC EP/V04320X/1 GCRF_NF225 - Improving community engagement with COVID-19 public health messages in hard to reach communities University of Central Lancashire £239,297 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 EPSRC EP/V04348X/1 GCRF_NF278 Building evidence on households, firms and value chains to support economic policy decisions under COVID-19 London School of Economics & Pol Sci £987,732 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 EPSRC EP/V043064/1 GCRF_NF335 COVID19: Greening the Social and Economic Recovery in Ghana and Zambia University College London £518,220 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 EPSRC EP/V043153/1 GCRF_NF345 Tackling Covid19 through co-production: engaging Brazilian vulnerable communities in facing the consequences of pandemics University of Essex £80,815 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 EPSRC EP/V044613/1 GCRF_NF252 Co-surveillance of Wasterwater and Environmental Water Samples for SARS-CoV-2 and Pathogenic Viruses in South Africa and Nigeria: Incidence Bangor University £324,335 Nov 2020 May 2022 EPSRC EP/V048414/1 GCRF_NF411 Effective point-of-use STERilisation of medical equipment using Ethylene Oxide (STEREO) University of Cambridge £399,645 Nov 2020 May 2022 EPSRC EP/V042947/1 GCRF_NF516 Increasing resilience in fishing communities to impacts of COVID-19 in northern Peru University of St Andrews £297,162 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 EPSRC EP/V043250/1 GCRF_NF452 Climate Change & COVID-19 (CCC19): Achieving a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery in Malawi and Rwanda Glasgow Caledonian University £165,855 Oct 2020 Aug 2021 EPSRC EP/V043315/1 GCRF_NF391 Maximising benefit and minimising the harm of COVID-19 control measures on child and women's health in four Sub-Saharan African countries Queen Mary, University of London £502,965 Oct 2020 Oct 2021 EPSRC EP/V043110/1 GCRF_NF407 - Emergency strategies for mitigating the effects of COVID-19 in care homes in low and middle income countries University of East Anglia £250,961 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 EPSRC EP/V043102/1 GCRF_NF228 The COVID Observatories: Monitoring the interaction of pandemics, climate risks, & food systems among the most disadvantaged communities University of Leeds £510,561 Oct 2020 Mar 2022 EPSRC EP/V043226/1 GCRF_NF359: Modelling the exposure risk tradeoff between public transit and private paratransit for transport decision making in the era of Covid19 University of Leeds £193,465 Oct 2020 Oct 2021 EPSRC EP/V043129/1 GCRF_NF437 High Performance Low Cost Ventilator (HPLV) project STFC - Laboratories £767,965 Oct 2020 Apr 2022 MRC MR/T020091/1 Health systems strengthening through person-centred care: development of a feasible and acceptable theory-based workforce approach to improve quality. King's College London £182,554 Aug 2020 Aug 2022 MRC MC_PC_MR/T00505X/1 A randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate a scalable active case finding primary care-based intervention for tuberculosis using a point-of-care University of Cape Town £646,080 Sep 2019 Sep 2023 MRC MR/T039027/1 The feasibility and acceptability of an early warning score system for preterm and low-birth weight infants in Kenya University of Nottingham £100,687 Aug 2020 Aug 2021 MRC MR/T031255/1 Medical and biological significance of exhaled M. tuberculosis detected by community level face mask sampling in Pretoria. University of Leicester £537,490 Jul 2020 Jan 2022 MRC MR/V028782/1 To investigate the spectrum, determinants and long-term outcome of SARS-CoV-2 in African children, immune responses and protective role of prior sHCoV UCT Lung Institute (Pty) Ltd £805,463 Sep 2020 Feb 2022 MRC MR/T022787/1 Adapting the health system in Ghana to reach the urban poor University of York £197,910 Aug 2020 Aug 2022 MRC MR/T016124/1 Evaluating multiple loci modulating susceptibility of African malaria parasites to artemisinin London Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine £697,687 Jun 2020 Jun 2024 MRC MR/T017759/1 Exploring the potential for using parent experiences of pre-term birth to improve care in LMICs, using video narratives and digital stories. University of Cambridge £197,078 Aug 2020 Aug 2022 MRC MC_PC_20028 Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in The Gambia: a denominator based analysis within the HDSSs London Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine £294,449 Sep 2020 Mar 2021 MRC MR/T029919/1 Contextual Awareness, Response and Evaluation: Diabetes in Ghana University College London £2,041,746 Jul 2020 Jul 2023 MRC MR/P022758/1 MICA VACCINE FAPESP MICA: Pulmonary Delivery of a Targeted Mucosal Nanocarrier Vaccine for Pneumonia Liverpool John Moores University £463,901 Oct 2017 Sep 2020 MRC MR/V028537/1 Measuring unanticipated opportunity costs of South Africa's COVID-19 response for children, mothers, and people living with non-communicable diseases Wits Health Consortium £683,620 Sep 2020 Mar 2022 MRC MR/V02860X/1 SARS-CoV-2 infection, transmission dynamics and household impact in Malawi (SCATHIM) University of Malawi £625,194 Sep 2020 Sep 2021 MRC MR/T038616/1 Addressing Perinatal Depression in Deprived Areas of Istanbul, Turkey University of Liverpool £96,923 Aug 2020 Aug 2021 NERC NE/P021107/2 GCRF Building capacity for sustainable interactions with marine ecosystems for health, wellbeing, food and livelihoods of coastal communities University of Plymouth £3,225,534 Jul 2020 Jan 2022