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Research
Global Health Seed Grants
About the Stanford Global Health Seed Grant program
The Stanford Global Health Seed Grant program catalyzes the development of innovative solutions to global health and planetary health challenges. It supports scientific and clinical research, implementation science, and development of new innovations in health care implementation or delivery. The program seeks to expand Stanford’s vibrant global health community, support global health training opportunities for Stanford trainees and students, and strengthen capacity with international partners. Research projects that have strong potential to generate solutions and impact, and/or scale-up into larger initiatives are encouraged to apply.
Global health seed grant
Application Process
Stanford Global Health issues an annual Call for Proposals each year in February or March. All Stanford Faculty with PI eligibility may apply. This call is open to faculty from all seven schools. Post-doctoral fellows, clinical trainees, instructors, and research scientists/scholars must identify a faculty mentor. Recipients are notified by late May, and grants begin over the summer.
Our Impact
Our grants have fostered the development of innovative global health solutions to pressing and emerging challenges such as the Ebola epidemic, COVID-19, and climate change. They’ve advanced global health research, sparked and expanded partnerships with collaborators in low -and middle-income countries, and propelled learning for early-career researchers.
68%
Recipients responding to a survey who reported receiving follow-on funding
$4.13M
Total Amount Awarded
113
Seed Grants Awarded
Our Latest Seed Grant Awardees
Read the articles below to learn about the current cohort of seed grant recipients. Learn about past seed grant awardees here.
Seed Grant Recipient Testimonials
Name
Desiree LaBeaud
Title
Professor of Pediatrics
Grant YEAR
Multiple
CIGH seed funding is crucial to igniting new research and collaborations that will identify solutions and secure partnerships necessary for tackling ongoing global health challenges.
Name
Matthew Strehlow
Title
Assoc. Prof,
Emergency Medicine
Grant YEAR
2021
CIGH’s seed grant program has allowed me to explore new partnerships with immensely talented faculty at institutions outside the US to ask and answer challenging questions.
Name
Sherry Wren
Title
Professor of Surgery
Grant YEAR
2018
“The CIGH grant allowed us to pull together an international coalition of researchers, policymakers, humanitarian actors, and clinicians to set an optimal framework that frames surgical humanitarian care in modern conflict.”
Name
Jennifer Dionne
Title
Associate Prof.,
Materials Science & Engineering
Grant YEar
2020
The global health seed grant allowed us to start a new collaboration between world experts in materials science, virology, and microbiology. Thanks to this grant, we could develop a new sensor technology for multiplexed pathogen detection. We are now deploying our technology in the Global South (for TB detection), as well as on autonomous underwater vehicles (for analysis of marine samples). We are very grateful for this seed support that led to multiple follow-on research projects and a company.”
