SDGHI seeks to improve health outcomes and reduce the burden of disease through support of evidence-based research. To this end, we facilitate research partnerships, fund pilot research grants for faculty and build on-site research capability of our collaborating partners.
Lead:
Professor Gavin Smith, Programme Director and Professor in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School
Current Programmes
Pilot funds are awarded to SDGHI faculty to stimulate interdisciplinary research collaborations, with the larger goal of enabling investigators to leverage preliminary findings and data to obtain larger awards of external funding.
Research grants underway include:
SDGHI collaborates with the Joint Office of Academic Medicine (JOAM) to foster the Academic Clinical Programme (ACP) activities in Global Health, to advance knowledge and/or practice in academic medicine in the faculty.
Current programmes include:
SDGHI provides international travel awards to support SDGHI faculty and junior investigators to explore new research opportunities by visiting potential collaborators
Travel grants awarded:
For more information on SDGHI's grants and funding opportunities, please go to our Grants & Funding page.