AESA - Grand Challenges Africa call for proposals, 2019

The scheme seeks to promote Africa-led scientific innovations to help countries better achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by awarding Innovation Seed Grants (ISG) and Innovation Transition Grants (ITG) to the continent's most impressive solutions.

This challenge is being launched by Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa) - a programme of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) supported through the AAS funding and programmes implementation platform, the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) - and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Knowledge Integration (Ki) initiative.  Ki seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the risk factors contributing to poor maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) outcomes and how best to address them through new data analysis tools and techniques. GC Africa has also collaborated with the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in hosting agenda-setting workshops for MNH priorities in Africa that have helped to shape this call for applications.

We seek proposals designed to answer critical scientific questions related to maternal, neonatal and child health and development outcomes. Proposals should use innovative quantitative analytics and modeling approaches that can be applied to the relevant existing data sets and should yield actionable results with a potential to significantly impact pan-African public health policy or that of specific African countries.

For more information or to apply visit the call webpage.

Deadline for applications is 26 Apr 2019.