156 projects

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From Queues to Telehealth: Digital Care, Health Inequalities and Healthcare Worker Mental Health in Ghana

This pre-project will prepare a joint application from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Ghana for the 2026 call “Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists on Global Health and Development Research”. The project focuses on a very practical quest...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Sustainable Health Interventions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Territories of Myanmar (Post-Coup)

The SHIFT pre-project aims to build partnerships between organizations in Myanmar and Norway to prepare for the 2026 Global Health and Development Research call. It addresses health disparities in Myanmar’s conflict-affected regions, focusing on vulnerable populations impacted by the 2021 militar...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Strategies to Curb Over-the-Counter Pharmacy Sales of Antibiotics to Mitigate Antimicrobial Resistance in India

Antibiotics have greatly reduced illness and mortality, but their misuse has accelerated antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In 2019, bacterial AMR caused an estimated 1.27 million deaths and contributed to 5 million worldwide. The economic impact is severe: global GDP is projected to fall by 1% by 2...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Men, Power, and Pills: Establishing a Consortium for a Gender-Transformative Family Planning Project in Tanzania

This Project Establishment grant will prepare a joint CMI and NIMR application for a main mixed-methods research project on male engagement, masculinity, mental health, and family planning in Tanzania. The primary objective is to develop and submit a competitive, ethically sound, and locally anch...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Student mental health and well-being in Uganda

This pre-project prepares an application for the 2026 Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists on Global Health and Development. It builds on collaboration between NTNU (Norway) and Kyambogo University (Uganda), aiming to generate knowledge on promoting student mental health and preventing ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Towards building SENegal’s health-based early WARNing systems for heat and air pollution (T-SENWARN)

T-SENWARN aims to lay the foundation for a locally tailored, health-impact–based Early Warning and Decision-support System (iEWDS) for heat and air pollution in Senegal. Communities in Senegal are increasingly exposed to the combined health risks of extreme heat and deteriorating air quality, yet...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Headache care Evaluation and Access in Low- and lower-middle income countries (HEAL) pre project

According to the latest results from the Global Burden of Disease study, headache disorders are the sixth leading cause of health loss globally. The disease burden is no less in low/lower-middle-income countries. With regard to the solution, the numbers are the problem. In a highly conservative n...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Health Opportunities in Migration Environments (HOME) - pre-grant application

This pre-project aims to establish a consortium for the main NFR early career grant call on global health and development in 2026. The main project will focus on using innovative methodological approaches to study systems factors and social determinants of health that can be modified by intervent...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Research on Migration across the Atlantic: Reciprocal Learning for Global Health, Equity and Integration

Migration is a global phenomenon with profound implications for global health and social equity. In Latin America, migrants and displaced populations frequently encounter structural barriers to healthcare, exposure to violence, and precarious living conditions. These vulnerabilities intersect wit...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

SYSTEMET-INT-SYSTEMET-INT

Atmospheres of Dust: Environmental and Epidemiological Transformations in West Africa

This six-month mobility project supports writing, fieldwork, and collaboration for Atmospheres of Dust (Epitraces WP3), an anthropological investigation of how industrial dust and coastal industry shape environments and lives in West Africa. Tracing the movements and meanings of airborne matter, ...

Awarded: NOK 0.88 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

BIRTH-PREDICT: AI-Enhanced Early Risk Detection for Safer Labour and Birth

Maternal and newborn mortality remains unacceptably high in many low-resource settings, largely because complications during labour are not identified early enough. Health-care providers work under severe staffing constraints, crowded labour wards and limited monitoring capacity, making timely as...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Impacts of Development Assistance for Health Cuts on Health Systems:Building Equitable Partnerships in Low and Lower Middle Income Countries

This pre-project aims to establish equitable research partnerships between the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and institutions in selected low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs). The preproject aims to prepare a competitive 2026 research application examining how recent cuts...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

LHEN-ASEAN - Learning Health Equity and Nutrition through Regional ASEAN Partnership

Malnutrition affects millions of children across Southeast Asia, limiting their development and perpetuating poverty. This pre-project will bring together researchers from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Norway to prepare a study on how school feeding programs can simultaneously improve child hea...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

AHEAD: Addressing health knowledge gaps in zones of environmental harm and chronic disease

Climate change and pollution are reshaping human health in dramatic ways: infectious disease outbreaks, worsening hunger, and heat-related illnesses. But another crisis is unfolding more quietly: chronic and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – such as cancer, diabetes, and kidney disease – are ris...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Beyond Birth: Priority setting for postnatal care to build a foundation for lifelong well-being

The global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) remains unacceptably high, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, which continues to bear the greatest burden of maternal deaths. The postnatal period is a critically important window for intervention—one that holds significant potential to prevent future ma...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Community-Centered Modeling of Housing Related Health Disparities

Climate change affects us all, but not equally. People who are already marginalized, such as low-income communities, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions, are more vulnerable to extreme weather events like heatwaves, storms, and flooding. One key factor influencing this vuln...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

INTSAMARBEID-INTSAMARBEID

Building Healthy Food Environment in Schools: Evaluating Co-created Interventions in Low-Resource Settings

Adolescence is a critical period when young people develop long-term eating habits, yet many schools offer foods that are tasty and convenient but not always healthy. To design better school food environments, we first need to understand what students actually eat, what schools provide, and which...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

A New Approach to Supply Chain Capitalism and Emerging Infectious Diseases

CAPIDEMIC explores the political dimensions of transnational supply chains and how they respond to sustainability challenges brought on by emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). Our research is centered on the poultry industry, which is currently under threat from the global spread of highly pathog...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PESORDNING-PESORDNING

Transnational/translational Research and Innovation Alliance for Understanding and Mitigating Mass Atrocities

Utarbeidelse og innsending av søknad om "TRAUMA-NET" til COST open call med frist 21. oktober 2025, som hovedsøker/koordinator. Arbeidet ledes av forsker Lise E. Stene ved NKVTS, med støtte fra faglige kolleger og administrativt ansatte på NKVTS. Søkeren samarbeider også tett med internasjonale k...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Building Healthy Food Environment in Schools: Evaluating Co-created Interventions in Low Resource Settings

Malnutrition is a major concern among adolescents in low-resource nations such as India and Nepal. Poor nutrition during adolescence increases the risk of early-onset diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and mental health problems, with long-term effects on overall health. Schools can play a ke...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Promoting responsiveness and equity for primary health care decisions through voice

Strong primary health care (PHC) can save lives and money. ProtEqt Voice aims to strengthen PHC services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, through increasing people’s voice in budgeting decisions. Partnering with KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Ifakara Health Institute...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Norwegian Research School in Global Health for Sustainable Futures

In the efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is crucial that Norway enhances its broad competence in global health research, including by advancing research into interventions and global health initiatives that Norway support through its development cooper...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Advancing tuberculosis diagnosis in children and adults by developing point-of-care optical devices

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a persistent global health challenge, especially for low and middle-income countries (LLMICS). A significant obstacle in controlling TB is the unavailability of a point-of-care TB diagnostic test. Currently used diagnostic tests necessitate advanced and expensive laborat...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Pandemic Funds, Public Goods for Health, and the Future of Global Health Financing

Global health financing initiatives such as the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (Act-A) – which brought together the leading established global health initiatives – have been well studied and criticised for their failure to support priorities of national public health systems and for promoti...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

UTI-Diag: Reducing the burden of antimicrobial resistance – urinary tract infection using innovative and scalable rapid diagnosis

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global health challenge. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections, affecting quality of life and presenting clinical and economic issues. Each year, around 150 million individuals are diagnosed with UTIs, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Participatory pathways for resilient, healthy, prosperous, and equitable food and land systems under climate change

Food and land use systems are impacted by global warming but also contribute to warming and ecosystem challenges. Climate impacts are already noticeable, and increasingly serious with continued warming. Consequences include challenges to food production, ecosystem functioning, and human, animal a...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Fungal Genomics and Antagonistic Community Interactions

Fungal pathogens within the Candida genus, including C. albicans, C. parapsilosis and C. auris, represent a growing public health concern on a global scale. Resistance to key antifungal drugs, particularly azoles and echinocandins, is on the rise. Increased virulence or resistance is driven by m...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Combined impact of heat and air pollution exposure on human health in India: Evidence and solutions

COPE: Enhancing Resilience to Heat and Air Pollution in India Climate change is intensifying health risks through rising temperatures and worsening ambient air pollution (AAP). AAP is currently the leading environmental health threat globally and in India. With extreme heat events increasing, the...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Tracing Health Impacts of the Plastic Value Chain on Vulnerable Populations in Kenya

Human health impacts associated with the plastics value chain are only beginning to be understood. Vulnerable groups—such as formal and informal workers across the plastic value chain including waste pickers, as well as women, children, and persons with disabilities—often bear the brunt of these ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Implementation evidence from health economics and users on preventing malaria in vulnerable children with monoclonal antibodies (HEKIMA)

Malaria remains one of the deadliest threats to children under five in sub-Saharan Africa. For children recovering from severe anemia, a common consequence of malaria, the months following hospital discharge are critical. These children are at heightened risk of severe illness or death if they co...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Vestland

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