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Launched in 2013 this programme will generate world class and cutting-edge research that addresses key questions on strengthening and improving health systems in developing countries. Following an excellent response to this programme from the research community, funding has now been secured for an annual call under this initiative until 2021.

The programme’s aims are to fund methodologically rigorous, high quality research that will:

• generate evidence on how to strengthen and improve health systems for people living in low- and middle-income countries
• use a health systems approach to inform the delivery of evidence-based interventions or structural changes. Proposals must demonstrate how interventions relate to and affect wider elements of a health system such as governance, financing, health workforce, information systems, service delivery etc
• provide evidence that is of direct relevance to decision makers and practitioners in the field.

This is the fourth annual call for the Health Systems Research Initiative. Up to £6 million is available for funding proposals under this call.  Innovative proposals are sought from across the public health, social and biomedical sciences and must clearly identify what health system challenge is being addressed. Proposals must situate this clearly-defined challenge within an understanding of the broader health system linkages and describe how and why findings from the project have the potential to improve the health of people living in low and middle-income countries. Funding is available for research only; we will not fund the routine delivery of health services.

Further information

• Full call details on MRC website
• Call specification (PDF, 132Kb)
• Email: hsri@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk