Funding, News and Announcements

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations program is seeking innovative global health and development solutions, and is now accepting proposals for its latest application round.

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.

Proposals are being accepted online for the following four challenges:

• Novel Approaches to Characterizing and Tracking the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance
• Explore New Solutions in Global Health Priority Areas
• Addressing Newborn and Infant Gut Health Through Bacteriophage-Mediated Microbiome Engineering
• Explore New Ways to Measure Delivery and Use of Digital Financial Services Data

Any Dalhousie faculty member interested in any of these opportunities is asked to contact the International Research Facilitator (jennifer.morawiecki@dal.ca) for more information and support in preparing an application.

Deadline: November 11, 2015