Call for Research Proposals: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, 09/08

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Human Resources for Health Department, World Health Organization

Website:
http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/

Call for Research Proposals:
Incentives to attract and retain qualified health workers to under-served areas within low and middle income countries

Deadline for submission of proposals: September 12th 2008

The calls for proposals can be downloaded from:
http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/Health%20Worker%20Incentives%20Underserved%20areas.pdf

This call for proposals is jointly issued by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research and the Human Resources for Health Department, WHO:-

- The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) is an international collaboration, based in WHO Geneva, that aims to promote the generation and use of health policy and systems research as a means to improve the health systems of developing countries.

- The Human Resources for Health Department, at WHO helps build and strengthen stewardship capacity to develop and implement health workforce policies, strengthens institutional capacity to develop and ensure quality and adequate quantity of health workforce production and manages knowledge regarding health workforce development

Supporting National Processes for Evidence-Informed Policy in the Health Sector of Developing Countries

Deadline for submission of proposals: September 12th 2008

The call for proposals can be downloaded from:
http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/Supporting%20National%20Processes%20Evidence%20for%20Evidence%20Inform%20Policy.pdf

The Alliance is launching this Call for Proposals so that it can provide support to national processes for evidence-informed policy making. The Alliance has allocated up to 500,000 USD for this Call and intends to award several grants to institutions in different regions for a period of up to three years.

The Alliance may consider extending grants beyond this period but only for those institutions that show good performance. The Alliance plans to award 3-4 grants, however the final number and size of the grants will depend on the quality and cost of the applications received.

As the work focuses upon evidence to policy linkages at the national level, the Alliance HPSR particularly encourages applications from national (or sub-national) institutions in developing countries. In recent years the Alliance has collaborated closely with the: Evidence-Informed Policy Networks - EVIPNet: http://www.evipnet.org

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