Human Health And Heredity In Africa: Research Grants Programme
The National Institutes of Health, otherwise referred to as NIH, is an agency operating within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that is seriously in control of encouraging and supporting all of the country’s biomedical and health-related research.
The grants and objectives of the NIH are all aimed towards the realization of their agency mission, which is to “seek fundamental knowledge of the nature and behaviour of living systems and the applying of that information to improve health, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of sickness and disability.”
As per this mission, the National Institutes of Health has established the Human Health and Heredity in Africa: Research Grants Program whereby they propose to invite applications from foreign establishments that are based in African countries who have the desire to conduct systematic studies regarding the genomic/genetic/environmental contributors of human health and diseases which are common in Africa.
The project intends to achieve its objectives by employing state of the art, cutting edge research tools which will considerably help the analysts during the process of totally understanding the diseases and conditions that are having an impact on the African folk.
The Human Health and Heredity in Africa: Research Grants Program was at first created to address the worries of low and middle-income nations who are having the difficulty to protect and sustain the health and contentment of its people.
The target counties often face the weight of having to deal with numerous health conditions such as infectious diseases, malnutrition, and an increasing number of persistent diseases.
The project intends to address this concerns by targeting the scope of the research studies in the following areas:
1) Genetic/environmental contributors to non-communicable illnesses in Africa
2) Genetic/environmental contributors to contagious illnesses in Africa
3) Contribution of the human microbiome to health and illnesses in Africa
4) The occurence of Mendelian diseases in Africa
5) The field of Pharmacogenics
The National Institutes of Health is ready to administer a total funding amount of $1.25 million each year, which can last as long as four years.
The institutions and organisations that are able to submit an application under Human Health and Heredity in Africa: Research Grants Program are the following:
a) Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (African Establishments) such as African institutions, Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education, and Non-public Institutions of Higher Education
b) Non domestic foreign establishments.
Michael Saunders is an editor of TopGovernmentGrants.com. He maintains Websites providing resources on grants for non profits and small business grants.
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