The scheme aims to build national research capacity in the MRC GIDA priority areas.

Research areas

• Outbreak analysis and modelling
• Global health analytics
• Vaccines research
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Methods and tools

Disease areas

• Zoonoses and animal disease
• HIV, STIs and hepatitis
• Malaria
• Tuberculosis
• Influenza
• Arboviruses
• Neglected tropical diseases
• Enteric infections
• Bacterial pathogens
• Fungal pathogens

Applications must be relevant to one of the Centre’s core priority areas and are particularly welcome in Vaccines Research, Antimicrobial Resistance and Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, as well as in the disciplinary areas of Genetics, Evolutionary Research, Statistics and Health Economics.