Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Polio eradication is a top priority for the Bill & Melinda 
Gates Foundation. We aim to contribute to global polio 
eradication by working with partners in the Global Polio 
Eradication Initiative.


The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is a 
public-private partnership led by national governments 
and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), 
Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC), and the United Nations Children?s 
Fund (UNICEF). Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide.


We are writing to let you know that the Polio Research 
Committee is now accepting grant proposals to support 
the implementation and evaluation of the Global Polio 
Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Strategic Plan 2010-2012. 
Research proposals are invited from independent 
institutions/investigators, private corporations 
and GPEI staff (e.g., EPI managers).  


Grant proposals are being accepted online until 
July 31, 2011 on the following topics:


1. Operational research 

2. Communication research 

3. Evaluation of improving and utilizing inactivated 
   polio vaccine (IPV) 
 
4. Improving routine immunization activities with 
   GPEI infrastructure 

5. Improving acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance 
    

Full descriptions of the topics and application 
instructions are available at: 
http://www.polioeradication.org/Research/Grantsandcollaboration.aspx. 
 

The Polio Research Committee is looking forward to 
receiving innovative ideas from around the world. If 
you have a great idea, apply. If you know someone 
else who may have a great idea, please forward this 
message.
 

Please direct any questions about this grant 
opportunity to: polioresearch@who.int


Thank you for your commitment to solving the world's 
greatest health challenges.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, 
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all 
people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing 
countries, it focuses on improving people's health and 
giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger 
and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to 
ensure that all people - especially those with the fewest 
resources - have access to the opportunities they need 
to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the 
foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William 
H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda 
Gates and Warren Buffett.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Now Accepting Grant Proposals

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 6 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level, in any discipline, and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.

Grant proposals are being accepted online until November 2, 2010 on the following topics:

New!   The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication

New!   Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies

New!   Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection

       Create New Technologies to improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns

       Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Global Health Diseases

      

Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.  Full descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are available at: http://www.grandchallenges.org/Pages/default.aspx

We are looking forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world and from all disciplines. If you have a great idea, apply. If you know someone else who may have a great idea, please forward this message.

Thank you for your commitment to solving the world's greatest health challenges.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people - especially those with the fewest resources - have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

CPN Africa call for fellowships

CPN‐Africa hereby wishes to inform all eligible “Young” African Scientists about the FP7‐Africa‐2010 
Call topics that were proposed by Africans and are directed mainly towards Africa’s research needs in 
the areas of Health, Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology. The deadline for this Call is the 14th of 
January, 2010. In view of getting European partners with whom to collaborate in the writing and 
implementation  of  their  projects,  CPN‐Africa  is  offering  fellowships  to  eligible  “Young”  African 
Scientists to sponsor a 4‐week trip to Europe to search for and find European partners with whom to 
write up and submit a project related to this call. To view the downloadable call for fellowships please click here.
 
More information on this call can be found on the CORDIS website of the European Commission, and 
some institutions searching for partners are also presented in the CIRCA website.

The Poverty-Related Diseases College (PRD) Call for Applications

The PRD College announces a call for applications for advanced training in biomedicine and development. PRD College will award up to 24 fellowships to MD graduates registered for PhD, PhD Students or Post-
Docs from Africa and Europe. The programme starts in January 2010 and will last for two and a half years.

Students should have institutional support for this activity. The intensive training courses will be taught by
researchers from partner and other Institutions; Partner institutions are:
• University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
• Makerere University, Uganda
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), South Africa
• Tropical Disease Research Center, Zambia
• Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Tanzania
• Stockholm University, Sweden

For more details please download the PRD Call for Applications.

Irish Aid: United Nations Volunteers Internship

UNV Internship programme open for applications

Irish Aid is funding sixteen positions as part of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Internship programme in 2010.

The purpose of the programme is to help develop the next generation of Irish development workers and to provide individuals who want to work in the Irish overseas development sector the opportunity to gain field experience with the UN in some of its missions around the world. Interns will be placed as project officers with UN agencies located mostly in one of Irish Aid’s programme countries; Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia. However some placements may also be in other countries in which Irish Aid provides support e.g. Cambodia, Laos, Sierra Leone and the Ukraine.

Interns will work in a UN field office for a period of 12 months (non-renewable) and will receive a stipend to cover basic living expenses and travel. Successful applicants will work in one or more of the following areas: education, gender, environment, health, HIV and AIDS, water and sanitation, governance, emergency and rehabilitation, communications, food security and rural development.

For more information and an application form please visit www.irishaid.gov.ie.