This RFP seeks innovative approaches to modeling of women’s health issues or of broader health topics that incorporate a gender lens. We are looking for projects with a 1-to-3-year timeline that will achieve at least one of the objectives below:
- Increase the number of trained modelers, especially women with gender expertise based in low-income and middle-income countries
- Achieve a better understanding of issues that disproportionately affect women through modeling
- Improve engagement with modeling approaches to support strategic planning and/or evaluation work
Ideally, proposals should also:
- Bring together discrete modeling units across low-income and middle-income countries to share expertise
- Enable South-South data-centered collaborations, knowledge transfer, and build on & strengthen existing initiatives and ecosystems
- Foster innovation with data in the interest of their respective local communities and achieving equality in access to health care
- Improve data collection, sharing, governance, regulatory compliance, and analysis processes to enable data-centered and gender aware public health research and interventions
- Explore and improve how to build and strengthen the interface of modeling with policy engagement leading to increased adoption of insights to yield impact
Announcement:
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/strengthening-modeling-and-analytics-capacity-and-ecosystem-womens-health
Dates:
- Applications Open: October 23rd, 2022
- Applications Closed: December 16th, 2022 at 9:00am PST
