InterSurgeon is an online social network built with a matching algorithm that was set up with UAB support in 2019 to connect surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and NGOs worldwide to facilitate collaborations in global surgery. There are currently over 900 members and 45 NGOs from 107 countries, representing all surgical subspecialties, anesthesia, and nursing. Membership is free and all InterSurgeon members can download enterprise-level augmented reality software that can be used with smartphones, tablets, or smart glasses for real-time interactive video collaboration worldwide. 

Browse available research opportunities for physician scientists offered by the Heersink School of Medicine.

The mission of the Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health (MHIGH) is to promote healthy lives through training and mentorship of global health scholars, innovative scientific research, and ground-breaking service initiatives embedded in genuine collaboration, trust, and multi-directional global health partnerships.

The goal of the MHIGH Pilot Project mechanism is to catalyze innovation in any mission area that involves collaboration between experienced investigators at UAB and international partners addressing a major global health problem. Funded projects will include mentorship of junior investigators or trainees.

2025 Global Health Pilot Projects

• RFA Released:  November 22, 2024

• Application Deadline:  February 25, 2025 (midnight CT)

• Awards Announced:   March 31, 2025

• Earliest Funding Start:  March 31, 2025 

To download the Request for Applications and to apply, visit InfoReady, the UAB Office of Research Application Portal:  https://uab.infoready4.com/ and search “MHIGH 2025”

Fogarty's programs provide funding to perform research and to train researchers in a variety of global health areas. See program pages for status, eligibility, funding announcements and deadlines.

Many Institutes and Centers at NIH offer funding opportunities to support research on global health topics, or in areas relevant to global health.

The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to invite applications from research institutions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to provide senior administrators from these institutions with advanced training in the management of NIH grants. The goal is to improve oversight of NIAID grant awards and compliance with NIH funding policies and Federal research funding requirements for NIAID-supported foreign institutions in LMICs.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support applications for high-priority, regionally relevant infectious diseases research by international investigators in resource-constrained countries. Applicant organizations must be headquartered in foreign (non-U.S.) resource-constrained countries (i.e. low-income economies, lower-middle-income economies, and upper-middle-income economies by World Bank Classification). Applicant organizations headquartered in low- and lower-middle income economy countries are particularly encouraged to apply. Eligibility status of applicant organizations will be determined by the World Bank Classification list at the time of application submission.

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research focused on clinical epidemiology, evaluation of public and/or health care policies, and validation of measurements that address health and health care disparities related to non-communicable and chronic diseases (NCDs) with the highest disease burden and mortality in Latin America and among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos.

This directory includes international grants and fellowships in biomedical and behavioral research, providing information about additional funding opportunities available to those in the field of global health research.

The Department of Medicine Jennifer Pollock Trainee Travel Award provides trainees with supplemental costs associated with attending and presenting his/her scholarly work at prestigious national or international conferences.

Learn more about UAB's travel guidelines.

UAB's Office of Research offers a number of pilot project funding opportunities, which can be found through this hub.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies (herein referred to collectively as evidence-based interventions). Studies that promote equitable dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions among underrepresented communities are encouraged. 

Application due May 8, 2025

The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to stimulate research focused on elucidating the impact of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) conditions. Projects ranging from basic mechanistic studies to implementation investigations, including clinical studies and NIH-defined clinical trials fitting the definition of mechanistic clinical trials/BESH research, may be considered responsive to the Notice.

Application due Feb. 16, 2025