MIM Grant Writing / Mock Peer Review Workshop, 11/00

One of the pressing needs identified by malaria researchers from endemic countries is the need to be better equipped to write competitive grant proposals. To assist the community of researchers from malaria-endemic countries, MIM will hold a one-day workshop on grant writing and a mock peer review session on November 3rd at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), Houston, Texas, USA, 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2000. The workshop will be open to malaria researchers from endemic countries that are attending the ASTMH meeting. The workshop objectives are to provide information to demystify the grant application process, give tips on what makes a successful grant application and demonstrate the grant review process.

The workshop will consist of a morning session of seminars on grant writing and an afternoon session of a mock peer review. The grant writing seminars will focus on aspects of successful grant proposals with perspectives from representatives of the US National Institutes of Health and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at the WHO. Discussants will include information on grants currently available for scientists from the South.

The afternoon session will enable researchers to gain experience in the peer review process and to see the nature of discussions surrounding scientific content, relevance, research environment, budget and other issues taken up during the review process. Experienced reviewers will work with the workshop participants to review the grants. The grants for discussion will be given to the workshop participants two weeks prior to the workshop.

Eligibility:

1) MALARIA RESEARCHERS FROM MALARIA-ENDEMIC COUNTRIES ATTENDING THE ASTMH meeting are welcome to apply to attend the workshop.

2) MIM will sponsor three MALARIA RESEARCHERS from AFRICA to attend the workshop as well as to attend the ASTMH meeting - this includes roundtrip flight from Africa, accommodation, ASTMH meeting registration and per diem. The three researchers will be required to write a report on the workshop to be published as part of the next MIM newsletter.

NB - this workshop is intended for researchers with little successful grant writing experience.

Application process: Apply by email <mim@nih.gov> or fax (+1-301-5941211). If applying by fax - please make the fax for the attention of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria. Please send us your CV (twopage maximum), one letter/email of recommendation from a superior or supervisor, and a short statement of the need to attend the training program and what way the skills learned will be used.

Application deadline: Monday October 16th We will inform the successful applicants by fax and/or email by Friday October 20th and will send out the grants for review at the mock peer review.

Andrea Egan, PhD
Coordinator
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM)
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive MSC 2220
Building 31, Room B2C39
Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Tel: +1-301-402-6680
Fax: +1-301-402-2056
mailto:egana@mail.nih.gov
http://mim.nih.gov