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 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.


FunderReferenceProject TitleLead OrganisationAward ValueStart DateEnd Date
AHRCAH/V003267/1'Great Latin American Women'. Follow-on Funding for 'The Billiken Magazine Centenary Project'University of Sheffield£79,126Oct 2020Oct 2021
EPSRCEP/V043218/1GCRF_NF292: Social and environmental impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnamese provinces bordering China and Laos following border closureUniversity of Glasgow£287,528Oct 2020Apr 2022
EPSRCEP/V04317X/1GCRF_NF362 Socio-economic, wellbeing and human rights related experiences of people with disabilities in Covid-19 times in South AfricaInstitute of Development Studies£110,685Oct 2020Jul 2021
EPSRCEP/V04320X/1GCRF_NF225 - Improving community engagement with COVID-19 public health messages in hard to reach communitiesUniversity of Central Lancashire£239,297Oct 2020Apr 2022
EPSRCEP/V04348X/1GCRF_NF278 Building evidence on households, firms and value chains to support economic policy decisions under COVID-19London School of Economics & Pol Sci£987,732Oct 2020Apr 2022
EPSRCEP/V043064/1GCRF_NF335 COVID19: Greening the Social and Economic Recovery in Ghana and ZambiaUniversity College London£518,220Oct 2020Apr 2022
EPSRCEP/V043153/1GCRF_NF345 Tackling Covid19 through co-production: engaging Brazilian vulnerable communities in facing the consequences of pandemicsUniversity of Essex£80,815Oct 2020Apr 2022
EPSRCEP/V044613/1GCRF_NF252 Co-surveillance of Wasterwater and Environmental Water Samples for SARS-CoV-2 and Pathogenic Viruses in South Africa and Nigeria: IncidenceBangor University£324,335Nov 2020May 2022
EPSRCEP/V048414/1GCRF_NF411 Effective point-of-use STERilisation of medical equipment using Ethylene Oxide (STEREO)University of Cambridge£399,645Nov 2020May 2022
EPSRCEP/V042947/1GCRF_NF516 Increasing resilience in fishing communities to impacts of COVID-19 in northern PeruUniversity of St Andrews£297,162Oct 2020Apr 2022
EPSRCEP/V043250/1GCRF_NF452 Climate Change & COVID-19 (CCC19): Achieving a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery in Malawi and RwandaGlasgow Caledonian University£165,855Oct 2020Aug 2021
EPSRCEP/V043315/1GCRF_NF391 Maximising benefit and minimising the harm of COVID-19 control measures on child and women's health in four Sub-Saharan African countriesQueen Mary, University of London£502,965Oct 2020Oct 2021
EPSRCEP/V043110/1GCRF_NF407 - Emergency strategies for mitigating the effects of COVID-19 in care homes in low and middle income countriesUniversity of East Anglia£250,961Oct 2020Apr 2022
EPSRCEP/V043102/1GCRF_NF228 The COVID Observatories: Monitoring the interaction of pandemics, climate risks, & food systems among the most disadvantaged communitiesUniversity of Leeds£510,561Oct 2020Mar 2022
EPSRCEP/V043226/1GCRF_NF359: Modelling the exposure risk tradeoff between public transit and private paratransit for transport decision making in the era of Covid19University of Leeds£193,465Oct 2020Oct 2021
EPSRCEP/V043129/1GCRF_NF437 High Performance Low Cost Ventilator (HPLV) projectSTFC - Laboratories£767,965Oct 2020Apr 2022
MRCMR/T020091/1Health systems strengthening through person-centred care: development of a feasible and acceptable theory-based workforce approach to improve quality.King's College London£182,554Aug 2020Aug 2022
MRCMC_PC_MR/T00505X/1A randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate a scalable active case finding primary care-based intervention for tuberculosis using a point-of-careUniversity of Cape Town£646,080Sep 2019Sep 2023
MRCMR/T039027/1The feasibility and acceptability of an early warning score system for preterm and low-birth weight infants in KenyaUniversity of Nottingham£100,687Aug 2020Aug 2021
MRCMR/T031255/1Medical and biological significance of exhaled M. tuberculosis detected by community level face mask sampling in Pretoria.University of Leicester£537,490Jul 2020Jan 2022
MRCMR/V028782/1To investigate the spectrum, determinants and long-term outcome of SARS-CoV-2 in African children, immune responses and protective role of prior sHCoVUCT Lung Institute (Pty) Ltd£805,463Sep 2020Feb 2022
MRCMR/T022787/1Adapting the health system in Ghana to reach the urban poorUniversity of York£197,910Aug 2020Aug 2022
MRCMR/T016124/1Evaluating multiple loci modulating susceptibility of African malaria parasites to artemisininLondon Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine£697,687Jun 2020Jun 2024
MRCMR/T017759/1Exploring the potential for using parent experiences of pre-term birth to improve care in LMICs, using video narratives and digital stories.University of Cambridge£197,078Aug 2020Aug 2022
MRCMC_PC_20028Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in The Gambia: a denominator based analysis within the HDSSsLondon Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine£294,449Sep 2020Mar 2021
MRCMR/T029919/1Contextual Awareness, Response and Evaluation: Diabetes in GhanaUniversity College London£2,041,746Jul 2020Jul 2023
MRCMR/P022758/1MICA VACCINE FAPESP MICA: Pulmonary Delivery of a Targeted Mucosal Nanocarrier Vaccine for PneumoniaLiverpool John Moores University£463,901Oct 2017Sep 2020
MRCMR/V028537/1Measuring unanticipated opportunity costs of South Africa's COVID-19 response for children, mothers, and people living with non-communicable diseasesWits Health Consortium£683,620Sep 2020Mar 2022
MRCMR/V02860X/1SARS-CoV-2 infection, transmission dynamics and household impact in Malawi (SCATHIM)University of Malawi£625,194Sep 2020Sep 2021
MRCMR/T038616/1Addressing Perinatal Depression in Deprived Areas of Istanbul, TurkeyUniversity of Liverpool£96,923Aug 2020Aug 2021
NERCNE/P021107/2GCRF Building capacity for sustainable interactions with marine ecosystems for health, wellbeing, food and livelihoods of coastal communitiesUniversity of Plymouth£3,225,534Jul 2020Jan 2022