Formerly known as the Small Grants Scheme, these grants support researchers and public health practitioners as part of TDR’s collaboration with all WHO regional offices. The objective is to produce implementation research findings that can help build national strategies and action plans for better control and treatment of infectious diseases of poverty. These include malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases, among others.
TDR has compiled a report summarizing the results of this grant programme between 2014 and 2020, including the following:
Common themes explored across the supported research projects include the following:
- Virtual/mobile health
- Maternal and child health
- Effective use of GeneXpert TB molecular diagnostic tool
- Catastrophic household costs of TB
- Malaria treatment/control strategies
- Leishmaniasis and vector control
- Snakebite – improving public health policies and practices
- Hepatitis C virus economic analysis
- Antimicrobial/multidrug resistance
View the full report here.
For more information on the Impact Grants programme, please contact Dr Garry Aslanyan.