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Conflicts are becoming more protracted and regionalised, inequality grows as populations do, and environmental disasters are on the rise. Humanitarian needs, both short- and long-term, will be acute and widespread. Over the next 15 years the aid sector will need to evolve and adapt. Part of this change will be by partnering with “new” aid actors – …

    The Low and Middle Income Longitudinal Population Study Directory (LMIC LPS Directory) aims to provide a valuable resource for researchers, funders and those interested in understanding changing socio-economic and health circumstances, and to enhance opportunities for international and interdisciplinary research collaboration. Its development h…

Please consult the original article here and read the full version of the commentary below here.EU development policy is a shared parallel competence meaning that member states maintain their own bilateral aid programmes. However, Brexit will mean that UK aid will no longer benefit from the extensive reach of the EU globally, especially in strategi…

Please access the full article by the Medical Research Council here and note that the call for the AHRC-MRC Global Public Health: Partnership Awards Call 2  is open.  The awards (listed below) address a variety of problems including: antimicrobial resistance; air pollution; reproductive health; palliative care, and mental health and resilience.  Al…

Please access the full article by the Medical Research Council here.Antibiotics transformed healthcare in the 20th Century and are considered one of the greatest medical achievements of the era. Today, we still rely on antibiotics to treat everything from minor cuts to life-threatening bacterial infections, and to prevent infection after surgery. T…

Over 660 million people lack access to clean drinking water, with over 80% living in rural communities; these communities solely rely on external aid. Existing tests are slow, expensive and require significant training, resulting in infrequent testing, and poor dissemination to key stakeholders within the community. WaterScope, which span off the O…

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is a 5-year £1.5Bn fund and a key component in the delivery of the UK Aid Strategy. The research councils have each received directly allocated portions of the GCRF and BBSRC, MRC, ESRC, AHRC and NERC drew on their individual allocations to support this opportunity for Foundation Awards in Global Agricultu…

This tool allows the exploration of financial flows between the UK and individual developing countries, or analyse flows for different groups of developing countries, for example UK imports from all low income countries. This analysis, which aims  to promote transparency and accountability for the UK’s interactions with developing countries, also i…

These FAQ are answered in an accessible way in this briefing paper at the House of Commons Library. 

Information about social networks in rural villages in the developing world is costly, time-consuming to collect and usually unavailable. Therefore, current immunisation strategies target people with established community roles: healthcare workers, teachers, and local officials.Cambridge researches found that a network theory approach-based algorit…

The Centre will draw on UK and international expertise to provide neutral advice, innovation and cutting edge science to help build cheaper, faster and reliable finance in emergencies that delivers the most benefit for the poorest people and can halve the cost of disasters.Why is this important?New research shows that disasters like hurricanes and …

The awards are part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), a 5-year £1.5Bn fund and a key component in the delivery of the UK Aid Strategy. The fund aims to ensure that UK research takes a leading role in addressing the problems faced by developing countries through challenge-led disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, strengthening ca…

 Cambridge-Africa is being invited to many meetings about how Cambridge should respond to different Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) calls. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to attend all of these meetings. Nonetheless, if required, we would want to provide advice/support for any Africa-linked GCRF proposal that includes the ambition to…

In a similar meeting on the 14th of June the following ideas were identified:Resilience, Sustainability and Healthy LivesViolence ReductionKnowledge Infrastructure InequityLabour InformalityIt is envisaged that all of the Hub proposals will address several Sustainable Development Goals, and be interdisciplinary. Those who wish to propose other idea…

The Global Challenges Forum (GCF)’s bid to become a University Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) in October 2017 has been successful.We would like to thank all the support, participation and enthusiasm provided by GCF's members and collaborators so far.We also really look forward to keep enhancing the contribution of University of Cambridge resea…