Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Chair: Charles Wiysonge (SA MRC)
Research Prioritisation Sub-group Chair: Alice Norton (GloPID-R Secretariat)
Coordinated funding Sub-group Chair: Hans Hagen (GloPID-R Secretariat)
The Research Prioritisation sub-group is developing recommendations for best practices to develop and apply regional and local research priorities during epidemics/pandemics. The Coordinated Funding sub-group is exploring models of rapid coordinated funding for research in response to epidemics/pandemics in LMICs.
Deliverables
- Lessons learnt from developing and applying research priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections from GloPID-R, July 2024
- Lessons learnt from developing and applying research priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, June 2023
- Scoping review protocol on research prioritisation for preparedness and response to outbreaks of high consequence pathogens, January 2023
- Funding and undertaking research during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: COVID CIRCLE lessons for funders, January 2023
- COVID CIRCLE Case Studies, January 2023
- COVID-19 Research in LMICs, March 2021
- Priorities for COVID-19 research response and preparedness in low-resource settings, May 2021
- Funding and undertaking research during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: COVID CIRCLE lessons for funders, November 2021
- Case Studies for the report Funding and undertaking research during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: COVID CIRCLE lessons for funders, November 2021
- ‘What have we learned from funding COVID-19 research across the globe?’ virtual dialogue, November 2021
Aims & objectives
- Support a coordinated approach to research funding for preparedness for and response to the current COVID-19 pandemics and future epidemics and pandemics in LMICs
- Coordinate capacity-strengthening efforts among funders of research in LMICs
- Facilitate exchange of ideas on aligning funding to the research needs of LMICs
Background
This working group was formed during the COVID-19 pandemic from the COVID CIRCLE Initiative. The group’s focus has since expanded to include broader research for preparedness and response to epidemics and pandemics, as the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of a global approach to pandemic preparedness and response research. In the short term, the group has elected to focus on two priority areas: research priority setting and coordinated funding. Work on these topics is under way and will provide best practice standards and recommendations to the GloPID-R membership and the broader funders’ community.
Participating organizations
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- DLR Project Management Agency (DLR-PT), Germany
- European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
- European Commission (EC)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
- International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada
- Korean Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB)
- Pasteur Network
- Sao Paolo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil
- Science for Africa Foundation, Kenya
- South African Medical Research Council (SA MRC)
- UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
- UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR)
- UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)
- Wellcome Trust, UK