NIHR launches new UK wide funding call for longer term Covid-19 Research

The NIHR is today launching a new call inviting applications to better understand and manage the health and social care consequences of the global COVID-19 pandemic beyond the acute phase, to help mitigate the impact of subsequent phases of the pandemic and its aftermath.

The current joint UKRI/NIHR rolling research call funds ‘urgent’ COVID-19 related research which will have an impact within 12 months. Funding and delivering urgent COVID research remains our priority.

But as we move beyond the initial acute phase of the pandemic, this new call has a specific focus on research to inform policy and the recovery of the health, care and public health systems from the pandemic, with outcomes typically within 24 months.

This is a UK-wide call involving all NIHR programmes with applications eligible from any UK based institution regardless of the usual funding arrangements in relation to the Devolved Administrations. However, usual funding arrangements still apply to the NIHR Policy Research programme and NIHR Fellowships programme.