The following newly recorded projects were funded by UKRI's Global Challenges Research Fund programme.
This information was downloaded on 1 May 2021 by the DevPubMetric system using data published in the UKRI Gateway to Research database over the preceeding month.
The total value of the 11 awards reported below is £7,457,232.
Funder Reference Project Title Lead Organisation Award Value Start Date End Date BBSRC BB/P028098/2 Preserving, Restoring and Managing Colombian Biodiversity Through Responsible Innovation University of East Anglia £2,515,041 Aug 2020 Dec 2021 ESRC ES/S008276/2 Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability: joint learnings from human-groundwater interactions Lancaster University £202,347 May 2020 Nov 2021 MRC MR/T04487X/1 Tailoring health policies to improve outcomes using machine learning, causal inference and operations research methods University of York £407,366 Sep 2020 Aug 2023 MRC MR/T03890X/1 Understanding phenotype and mechanisms of spontaneous preterm birth in sub-Saharan Africa (PRECISE-SPTB) King's College London £1,067,100 Feb 2021 Feb 2024 MRC MR/T039078/1 Oral Vitamin D supplementation as a safe, affordable treatment for profound vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy St John's National Academy of Health Sci £100,690 Apr 2021 Mar 2022 MRC MR/V001566/1 OPTIMISE: Optimal preconception nutrition to offset inflammation and non-communicable disease risk in pregnant women and their children University of Southampton £1,912,035 Feb 2021 Feb 2026 MRC MR/V004093/1 Mental health and HIV among call centre employees in the Philippines: Co-producing a workplace intervention using a systems approach. University of Glasgow £140,699 Mar 2021 Aug 2022 MRC MR/T003987/1 Reducing Relapse for People with Schizophrenia in Jakarta, Indonesia: Developing a culturally-relevant, evidence-based Family Intervention University of Manchester £149,833 Mar 2021 Feb 2023 MRC MR/T003480/2 Preventing childhood injuries in Uganda - development of a child safety kit; preparation for a cluster randomised controlled trial Imperial College London £55,617 Aug 2020 Sep 2020 MRC MC_PC_20054 COVID19 Strategic Priorities: SUPPLEMENTARY FUNDING OFFER FOR THE MRC UNIT, THE GAMBIA AT LSHTM (MRC Unit, The Gambia) London Sch of Hygiene and Trop Medicine £603,894 Mar 2021 Mar 2021 MRC MR/T003847/1 Prevention of Neural Tube Defects by Inositol and Vitamin B12 (PONTib) - Development Trial University College London £302,610 Mar 2021 Feb 2023