Small Grants for Antimicrobial Resistance Research

Small Grants for Antimicrobial Resistance Research

The World Health Organization regional offices for Africa, the Americas, Europe and South-East Asia and TDR, the UNICEF / UNDP / World Bank / WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Joint Small Grants Scheme for implementation research in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

The Small Grants Scheme supports implementation research on infectious diseases of poverty that leads to health improvement and strengthening research capacity of individuals and institutions in low- and middle-income countries.

The Small Grants Scheme is a joint initiative of TDR and WHO regional offices under the current TDR Strategy.

TDR is sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, and is hosted at WHO.

The scope of the call is to cover a spectrum of studies that utilize operational or implementation research methodology, focusing on a One Health approach including human, animal and/or environmental health as one of the core principles of an effective response against the AMR problem.

Small Grants for Antimicrobial Resistance Research - Aims

To support operational or implementation research that: