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CGHE Announces Funding Awarded to Four Transformative Research Projects

Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan

The Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) at the University of Michigan is proud to announce the awarding of new funding to several groundbreaking research projects through our CGHE Seed Grant Program and Impact Accelerator Program. This initiative reinforces our commitment to innovative and collaborative research aimed at promoting healthier and longer lives across the globe.

Seed grants
Our seed grant program seeks to stimulate exploratory projects that foster fresh ideas and partnerships, laying the groundwork for substantial future projects. In the latest round, $105,000 has been awarded to support three co-designed projects with a clear, collaborative ethos involving partners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These projects were selected for their potential to substantiate a larger-scale impact and their readiness to pilot vital interventions.

The awardees are:

  • Gender-Based Violence in Digital Spaces: Measuring and Exploring Exposure among University Students in Pakistan – Mustafa Naseem (Information), Rivet Amico, Elizabeth King (Public Health), and Michelle Munro-Kramer (Nursing)
  • Rationalizing and Reducing the Cost of Running Randomized Controlled Trials in Low Resource Settings (R2CT) via a Case Study in Intermittent PARP Inhibitors for Ovarian Cancer in India – Kelley Kidwell (Public Health), Bhramar Mukherjee (Public Health), Brad Zebrack (Social Work), and Shitanshu Uppal (Medicine) in collaboration with the Kolkata Gynecological Oncology Trials and Translational Research Group
  • A pilot study to assess the sexual, reproductive, and mental health educational needs among healthcare providers and refugee women in Lebanon – Rouba Ali-Fehmi (Pathology), Amy Pienta (Institute for Social Research), Elizabeth King (Public Health), and Hala Darwish (Nursing), in collaboration with Amel Association International in Beirut, Lebanon


Impact Accelerator Grant

CGHE's Impact Accelerator Grants aim to support action-oriented projects focused on designing, piloting, or testing solutions that improve health outcomes for people in low- and middle-income contexts. The funded amount for these projects can range from $35,000 to $100,000, enabling extended project durations and larger-scale impact. During this latest round, funds were awarded to:

  • Integrating climate change and geospatial analytics into next-generation surveillance of epidemic-prone disease in Ghana – Lee Schroeder (Pathology), Derek Van Berkel (SEAS), Jon Zelner (SPH), in collaboration with partners at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana.


These awards manifest the University of Michigan's ongoing commitment to nurturing collaborative global health equity research and innovation. With principal investigators from a range of disciplines and departments, the supported projects epitomize interdisciplinary excellence and the potential for genuine impact.

Application deadlines for the next funding cycles are on March 15, 2024 and October 11, 2024. We encourage U-M faculty and global collaborators to seize the opportunity to develop projects that can significantly improve global health outcomes.

The Center for Global Health Equity looks forward to the advancements these projects will bring to global health issues and the lasting partnerships they will foster. Congratulations to all awardees, and we anticipate the transformative effects your research will have on communities around the world.