i. The duration of funding support may range for a year and up to a maximum of 3 years, at the point of application.

ii. Each proposal is capped at S$50,000.

Please take note of the following in the budget request:

• Expenditure related to activities required to implement the approved global health projects may be included for funding support. Such expenditure may include costs related to travel to the project sites to undertake project work / assignment, site visits, conducting research, purchase of supplies for projects, publication of journals, patent application.

Applicants may approach SingHealth International Collaboration Office (ICO) at Vijaya.Rao@singhealth.com.sg for advice on travel budget expenses prior to submitting their application.

• Please refer to the information sheet for details on budgeting for patient reimbursement expenditure.
• Non-supportable expenditures will include overseas travel expenses for the purposes of attending overseas conferences / seminars, salaries of investigators and office running costs such as expenditures on office equipment/ office furniture and fittings/ cost of renovation/ capital works and general infrastructure etc.

i. Clinicians with Duke-NUS Faculty or Non-Faculty Academic Appointment are eligible to apply. A Co-PI is required if an applicant does not have a Duke-NUS Academic Appointment.

ii. Applicants who have previously received funding (completed projects) may still be considered if they apply for new areas of interest. However, priority will be given to those who have not yet been awarded. 

iii. Applicants with ongoing projects will not be eligible for a new grant (from the same funding source) unless their current project is completed or nearing completion (within six (6) months of the grant end date, including any approved grant extension). 

iv. Applicants may resubmit the same proposal one more time if the first application is unsuccessful. 

v. Applicants are not permitted to submit the same proposal to multiple small grant programmes (JOAM ACP Programme Grants and SDGHI Pilot Grant) within the same grant call period. 

vi. However, proposals with different or new topics of interest submitted to different funding sources by the same applicant are allowed. This policy helps ensure fair and equitable distribution of funding and avoids potential issues related to duplicate funding

vii. Only programmes or projects carried out in Asia, in particular LMICs, will be funded.

A list of LMICs can be found at https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519. Please note that LMICs include low-income countries, lower-middle income countries and upper-middle income countries.

Each proposal should demonstrate alignment with goals of academic medicine, with focus on its impact to the SingHealth Duke-NUS AMC, the ACP and locally within Singapore. All project activities are to be conducted locally and within Singapore.