For Round 5 of the NIHR Global Research Professorships, we will now be accepting applications from higher education institutions (HEIs) and research institutes in low and middle income countries that are partners in any of the following programmes:
- NIHR Global Health Research funded units and groups
- NIHR funded Global Health Policy and Systems Research (GHPSR) programmes
- NIHR funded Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programmes
- NIHR Global Research Professorships
Below is a list of all the eligible organisations. If you are based in a HEI or research institute that you consider is eligible but is not on this list then please contact us by emailing academy-awards@nihr.ac.uk.
Eligible host institutions for NIHR Global Research Professorships
Argentina
- Universidad Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Bangladesh
- Advancement Through Research and Knowledge (ARK) Foundation, Dhaka
- Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka
- BRAC University, Dhaka
- Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh, Dhaka
- Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka
- Independent University Bangladesh, Dhaka
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDRB), Dhaka
- Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka
- University of Liberal Arts, Dhaka
Benin
- Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Cotonou
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo
Botswana
- Botswana Harvard Aids Institute, Gaborone
- Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI), Gaborone
- University of Botswana, Gaborone
Brazil
- Federal University of Bahia, Salvador
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
- Instituto de Estudos para Politicas de Saude, Rio de Janeiro
- Instituto do Coração, São Paulo
- Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas
- University of São Paulo, São Paulo
Burkina Faso
- Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Ouagadougou
Cameroon
- University of Yaounde, Yaounde
China
- Fudan University, Shanghai
- Sun Yat-sen University Global Health Institute (GHSI), Guangzhou
- Tsinghua University, Beijing
Colombia
- Agrosavia, Bogotá
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá
Congo
- Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu
Ecuador
- Universidad de Las Américas, Quito
- Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito
Egypt
- Ain Shams University, Cairo
Ethiopia
- Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa
- AMREF, Addis Ababa
- Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Addis Ababa
- Mekelle University, Mek'ele
- National Podoconiosis Action Network (NaPAN), Addis Ababa
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
Gabon
- Center of Medical Research Lambaréné (CERMEL), Libreville
Ghana
- Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi
- Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo
- Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Accra
- University for Development Studies, Tamale
- University of Ghana, Accra
Haiti
- Université d'État d'Haïti (UEH), Port-au-Prince
India
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
- Chest Research Foundation, Pune
- Christian Medical College, Vellore
- Devki Devi Foundation, New Delhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum
- KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune
- Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Bengaluru
- Kohima Institute, Kohima
- Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai
- Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi
- Model Rural Health Research Unit, Raichur
- National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida
- National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
- S Nijalingappa Medical College and HSK Hospital & Research Centre, Bagalkot
- Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), Chennai
- Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA), Mumbai
- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
- Symbiosis International, Pune
- The George Institute India, New Delhi
- University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi
Indonesia
- Centre for Health Economics and Policy Studies (CHEPS), Universitas Indonesia, Depok
- Pancasila University, Jakarta
Jamaica
- University of the West Indies, Mona Heights
Kenya
- African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), Nairobi
- Amref International University, Nairobi
- Institute Primate Research, Nairobi
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi
- Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium, Nairobi
- Moi University, Eldoret
- Strathmore University, Nairobi
- University of Nairobi, Nairobi
Kyrgyzstan
- Osh State University, Osh
Lebanon
- American University of Beirut, Beirut
Liberia
- University of Liberia - Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation, Monrovia
Malawi
- Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU), Karonga
- Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW), Blantyre
- Reach Trust, Lilongwe
- University of Malawi, Zomba
Malaysia
- Institute for Health Systems Research, Shah Alam
- SEACO/Monash University, Segamat
- Universiti Putra, Seri Kembangan
- University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Mali
- Centre for Vaccine Development (CVD), Bamako
- University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Bamako
Mongolia
- National Traumatology and Orthopedics Research Center, Ulaanbaatar
Myanmar
- University of Medicine 1, Yangon
Nepal
- Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel
Nigeria
- Bayero University, Kano
- College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos
- Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos
- University of Ibadan, Ibadan
Occupied Palestinian Territories
- An-Najah National University, Nablus
Pakistan
- Aga Khan University, Karachi
- Allergy and Asthma Institute, Islamabad
- Khyber Medical University, Peshawar
- King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Lahore
- Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Research Network, Islamabad
- Rawalpindi Medical University/Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi
- Services Institute of Medical Science, Lahore
Peru
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima
Philippines
- Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), Muntinlupa
- University of the Phillipines Manila, Manila
Rwanda
- University of Rwanda, Kigali
Sierra Leone
- College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), Freetown
- University of Sierra Leone, Freetown
South Africa
- Africa Health Research Institute, Durban / Somkhele
- Human Sciences Research Council - South Africa, Pretoria
- Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town
- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
- University of Pretoria, Pretoria
- University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Johannesburg
Sri Lanka
- Institute of Research and Development, Battaramulla
- Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale
- University of Colombo, Colombo
- University of Jaffna, Jaffna
- University of Kelaniya, Colombo
- University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa
- University of Peradeniya, Kandy
- University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Colombo
Sudan
- Ibn Sina University, Khartoum
- University of Khartoum, Khartoum
Tanzania
- Catholic University of Health and Applied Sciences, Mwanza
- Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Moshi
- Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Dar es Salaam
- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam
- National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Dar es Salaam
Thailand
- Mahidol University, Bangkok
Timor-Leste
- University National Timor-Leste, Dili
Uganda
- Busitema University, Tororo
- Makerere University, Kampala
- MRC / UVRI Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe
- UVRI - Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe
Vietnam
- National University of Civil Engineering, Hanoi
Zimbabwe
- University of Zimbabwe, Harare