'The rollout of one million vaccines in northern Nigeria will help save lives... This is exactly the kind of scientific innovation [that will] help us drive further breakthroughs' - Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP

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FCDO Research PATH World Health Organization (WHO) Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

FCDO Commercial Pipeline: April 2024
This commercial pipeline provides a forward look of potential commercial procurement activity in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) gov.uk/government/pub…

The #CLimateAdaptationREsilience (CLARE) initiative, supported by FCDO Research, has launched:
☔ 17 projects
🌍 across 38 countries
🤝 partnering with 100 organizations

Learn more about the three research pillars and projects in the latest newsletter: buff.ly/4cP7a3K

🌱💡If you're a PURE innovator interested in applying for PREO grant funding for Pacific Island Countries-focused projects: Register now for the webinar on 18 April📆 eventbrite.co.uk/e/preo-open-ca…

TransformingEnergyAccess FCDO Climate Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office IKEA Foundation The Carbon Trust Energy 4 Impact

We're hiring climate experts to help fulfil the 🇬🇧🇮🇳 commitment to safeguarding our planet and build a more sustainable future for both countries.

- Head of Climate Change Policy

- Climate Finance Lead

- Communications and Engagement Manager, Indo-Pacific Regional Department

One of the greats of British science: Peter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of The University of Edinburgh, Nobel Prize winner in 2013, whose identification of the Higgs boson was proved by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012. RIP

Calling all poverty researchers in Tanzania!

Applications for the DEEP Challenge Fund Tanzania are now open - until 19 April 2024

This is an exciting opportunity for #povertyresearch to contribute to national efforts to eradicate poverty in Tanzania.

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Regional Early Market Engagements – Global Evaluation and Monitoring Framework Agreement 2 (GEMFA2). We are running several Regional events on various dates in May 24. Please visit forms.office.com/e/BydEGSsaikfor more information and options to register interest. #FCDOGovUK #UKAid

Healthcare as a human right.

The UK and #India are working together to uphold that right, drawing on our shared expertise to improve health outcomes all over the world 🇬🇧 🇮🇳

#AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #Malaria
#Science #Research FCDO Global Health Research UK in India🇬🇧🇮🇳

📢 NEW #STEG funding for PhD students! 🎉
Doctoral student seeking funding for your research on structural transformation and economic growth?
Apply for a STEG PhD Research Grant up to £15k here: steg.cepr.org/call-for-propo…
Deadline: 20 May 2024

#EconTwitter FCDO Research

Really excited that TransformingEnergyAccess is supporting innovations in Productive Use of Renewable Energy in the #Pacific for the first time! Please share & hoping for great applications. FCDO Climate FCDO Research Sustainable Energy for All | #SDG7BeBold GOGLA Alliance for Rural Electrification United Nations ESCAP Billie Selby 🇬🇧 🇫🇯

📣 Deadline extended!
FCDO Research Commissioning Centre, led by
3ie & Uni of Birmingham, calls for proposals to conduct a systematic review of the impact of climate change on rail operations in Turkey.
Read detailed TOR: bit.ly/cfpRCC
Submit by: 17 April
#ApplyNow

Did you know that 200 Kenyan nurses are working in the NHS ?

Thanks to our recent partnership with Ministry of Health, unemployed Kenyan nurses are filling gaps in the UK healthcare system while gaining new skills and knowledge 🏥 🩺 #GoFarGoTogether

The UK government supports Mark Thomson to be the next Director-General of CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.

Professor Mark Thomson has the skills, experience and vision to lead CERN at a critical time for its future.

More info⬇️

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#ApplyNow | The FCDO Research Commissioning Centre - led by 3ie and Uni of Birmingham - is looking for Senior Research Fellows to be seconded within the Research and Evidence Directorate at FCDO.

Deadline 👉🏾 5 April 2024
Read detailed TORs 👉🏾 3ieimpact.org/jobs

Early Market Engagement - Evaluation of FCDO’s Economic Development Research Programme Portfolio will take place on Wednesday 17th April - 11:00 -12:30 BST. Access bit.ly/4cK27S0
for further information & the link to register for the EME. #FCDOGovUK

Delighted new in Science Magazine : BCG vaccination success in cattle in Ethiopia v bovine TB through significant transmission reduction. Great long term support from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research FCDO Research Gates Foundation. Congrats @monkeymishkin & Abebe Fromsa.
#tbfree #BTB

Learn more about this FCDO Research Commissioning Centre led by 3ie & Uni of Birmingham
➡️bit.ly/cfpRCC

Open opportunities:
▪️AI in food & agr
▪️Shadow economy in the Baltics
▪️Climate change impact on Turkey's rail
▪️Russian information operations in the Baltics

🌍The real-world impact of Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office-funded research

'Tuberculosis vaccine may enable elimination of the disease in cattle by reducing its spread'

Congratulations to our partners at Penn State and Cambridge University for their recently published work.

➡️phys.org/news/2024-03-t…