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HPSR Commissioned Awards Funding Committee Meeting Minutes

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Published: 30 April 2021

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Global Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) Commissioned Awards - Funding Committee Minutes

Date : 1st April 2020
Place : Remote meeting via Google Meet

Present

Members

  • Professor Anne Mills (Chair)
  • Professor Grace Irimu (Deputy Chair)
  • Professor Jo Rycroft-Malone (Deputy Chair)
  • Dr Suraj Bhattarai
  • Professor Tim Ensor
  • Professor Allan Hill
  • Dr Mylene Legarde 
  • Dr Corinne Merle 
  • Professor Chris Millett
  • Professor Tolib Mirzoev
  • Ms Noni Mumba
  • Dr Kui Muraya 
  • Professor Dame Louise Robinson
  • Dr Andres Vecino
  • Dr Hesborn Wao

NETSCC Secretariat 

  • Dr Sarah Puddicombe (Assistant Director)
  • Dr Jo Nurse (Scientific Advisor)
  • Mrs Fay Habens (Senior Research Manager)
  • Miss Rosie Geale (Research Manager)
  • Mrs Renee Lewin (Research Awards Manager)
  • Mrs Stella Burton (Assistant Research Manager)
  • Mrs Tina Moody (Assistant Research Manager)
  • Miss Asia Pracz (Administrator)

Apologies

  • Dr Mary Eyram Ashinyo 
  • Professor Paula Griffiths
  • Mrs Helen Latchem
  • Professor Alastair Leyland
  • Dr Kabir Sheikh
  • Professor K. Srinath Reddy
  • Dr André Van Rensburg

Observers 

  • Mr Mike Batley (DHSC - Deputy Director of Research Programmes)
  • Dr Alex Ademokun (DHSC - Head of Global Health Research Programmes)
  • Dr Val Snewin (DHSC - Head of Global Health Research Partnerships)
  • Ms Laurence Poos (DHSC - Senior Global Health Research Programme Officer)
  • Ms Aaronjay Tidball (DHSC - Global Health Research Programme Officer)
 
Quoracy Information:
 
14 voting members present (12 committee members + 2 deputy chairs)
66% quorate
 

Review of applications 

NIHR131207 Professor Richard Sullivan, King's College London (UK) and Dr Szedoun Al Zoubi, Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (Turkey)

Research for Health System Strengthening in northern Syria (R4HSSS)
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Fund with change
 

NIHR130859 Professor Hisham Mehanna, University of Birmingham (UK) and Professor Vikash Sewram, Stellenbosch University (South Africa)

International Collaboration On Improving Cancer outcomes in low and middle income countries in Africa (ICOnIC- Africa)
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared
ODA Compliant: Yes

Outcome: Decline

NIHR130812 Professor Mike English, University of Oxford (UK) and Dr David Gathara, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research P,ogramme (Kenya)

Learning to Harness Innovation in Global Health for Quality Care (HIGH-Q)
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Grace Irimu, Kui Muraya, Tolib Mirzoev and Noni Mumba declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Fund with change

NIHR131237 Dr Timothy Powell-Jackson, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) and Professor Victor Mwapasa, University of Malawi (Malawi)

Improving neonatal health outcomes and the clinical quality of care through better hospital management practices in Malawi
Chair: Grace Irimu 
Conflicts: Anne Mills, Mylene Largarde and Chris Millett declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Fund with change
 

NIHR131273 Professor Shabbar Jaffar, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) and Professor Moffat Nyirenda, MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit (Uganda)

Controlling chronic diseases in Africa: development and evaluation of an integrated community-based management for HIV-infection, diabetes and hypertension in Tanzania and Uganda. The INTE-COMM study
Chair: Jo Rycroft Malone 
Conflicts: Anne Mills and Tolib Mirzoev declared a conflict and left the meeting     
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Fund with change

NIHR131062 Professor Martin Chalkley, University of York (UK) and Mr Edward Kataika, East, Central and Southern African Health Community (Tanzania)

Thanzi la Mawa - Health for the Future; Evaluating health workforce interventions and innovations to promote universal health coverage in Malawi and East and Central Southern Africa
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Chris Millett declared a conflict and left the meeting     
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline
 

NIHR131145 Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (UK) and Dr Yusi Anggriani, Pancasila University (Indonesia)

What’s the cost of poor quality medicine? Estimating the prevalence, health impact and economic cost of substandard and falsified medicines in Indonesia in the age of UHC
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Chris Millett declared a conflict and left the meeting     
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Fund with change
 

NIHR130961 Professor Justine Davies, University of Birmingham (UK) and Dr Jean-Claude Byiringiro, University of Rwanda (Rwanda)

Referral systems for quality trauma care for adults in Rwanda – a primary research study
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR131119 Professor John Walley, University of Leeds (UK) and Dr Muhammad Khan, The Association for Social Development (Pakistan)            

Quality of primary care
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Tim Ensor and Tolib Mirzoev declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline
 

NIHR130709 Professor Richard Lilford, University of Birmingham (UK) and Professor Akinyinka Omigbodun, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)           

Pathways to care and health-seeking behaviour in urban areas in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR131031 Professor Imelda Bates, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) and Dr Catherine Chunda-Liyoka, University of Zambia (Zambia)

Strengthening Zambia’s national health system by using existing vertical programmes to co-create a new patient-centred pathway for neonatal sickle cell screening
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline


NIHR131053 Dr Angela Obasi, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) and Dr Lilian Otiso, LVCT Health Healthy Societies (Kenya)

Health for All Adolescents through Stakeholder-Driven Research & Capacity Strengthening: Promoting Integrated, Effective and Equitable Health Systems in 5 counties in Kenya (The K5 Project)
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Kui Muraya declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

 NIHR131268 Dr Natasha Howard, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) and Dr Fouad Fouad, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)

Technological innovations to support remote capacity-building and accreditation of non-physician healthcare workers in protracted conflict-affected Middle East settings
Chair: Grace Irimu
Conflicts: Anne Mills declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR130991 Dr Dina Balabanova, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) and Professor Obinna Onwujekwe, University of Nigeria (Nigeria)

Improving quality of care through stronger governance: harnessing innovative accountability mechanisms in the health sector
Chair: Grace Irimu
Conflicts: Anne Mills, Kui Muraya, Tolib Mirzoev and Andres Vecino declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR130986 Ms Rachel Cooper, Transparency International (UK) and Associate Professor Freddie Ssengooba, Makerere University (Uganda)

Transforming Health Financing in Uganda and LMICs
Chair: Grace Irimu
Conflicts: Tolib Mirzoev declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR131152 Professor Charles Ameh, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) and Professor Zahida Qureshi, University of Nairobi (Kenya)

Kenya Obstetrics and Perinatal HEalth Systems Study (KOPHESS)
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Grace Irimu  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR131242 Professor Luc De Witte, University of Sheffield (UK) and Professor Zahir Quazi, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (India)

Screening and monitoring of non-communicable diseases by lay health workers: a study into the impact on health and wellbeing of people living in low resource communities in India
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR131182 Dr Merlin Willcox, University of Southampton, UK and Professor Jerome Kabakyenga, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Improving implementation of maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response in Uganda
Chair: Grace Irimu
Conflicts: None declared
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR130816 Professor Saseendran Pallikadavath, University of Portsmouth (UK) and Dr Sujarwoto Sujarwoto, University of Brawjaya (Indonesia)

GenRe to GenRe+: Integration of Generation Planning (GenRe) programme with health system in Indonesia
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR130842 Professor Frances Griffiths, University of Warwick (UK) and Dr Narjis Rizvi, The Aga Khan University (Pakistan)

Quality of healthcare consultations for residents of urban slum communities of Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan and Bangladesh: an exploratory study
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Kui Muraya and Noni Mumba declared a conflict and left the meeting    
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR130942 Associate Professor Vahid Garousi, The Queen's University of Belfast (UK) and Associate Professor Ayça Tarhan, Hacettepe University (Turkey)

Improving the quality of healthcare data, practices and processes in three case-study hospitals in Turkey with a focus on vulnerable groups: A system-engineering approach
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

NIHR131003 Dr Andreas Xyrichis, King's College London (UK) and Dr Jacqueline Alcantara Marcelino da Silva, Federal University of Sao Carlos (Brazil)

Strengthening access to primary health care in Brazil through fostering patient and family member involvement in interprofessional family care teams
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline
 

NIHR131133 Dr Aneel Bhangu, University of Birmingham (UK) and Dr Dhruv Ghosh, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana (India)

Transforming surgical workforce research into policy change
Chair: Anne Mills
Conflicts: Mylene Largarde declared a conflict and left the meeting  
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline

 

NIHR130794 Dr Kevin Mortimer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) and Dr Nyovani Madise, African Institute for Development Policy (Kenya)               

The clinical- and cost-effectiveness of a pragmatic single inhaler-based approach to asthma management in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country randomised controlled trial to catalyse health system and policy change
Chair: Grace Irimu
Conflicts: None declared 
ODA Compliant: Yes
Outcome: Decline