Applications Invited for Health Research Grants 2025

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About the Organization

The Foundation’s vision is to contribute towards a more just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. Its work is focused on India.

Azim Premji set up the Foundation in 2001. Over the past years, he has irrevocably donated most of his wealth for philanthropic purposes and created a philanthropic endowment valued (as of Jan 2023) at approximately USD 29 billion (INR 2,40,000 crore) to fund the work of the Foundation. As part of this endowment, along with other assets, 66 percent of the economic ownership of Wipro Ltd is with the Foundation.

About the Grant

Azim Premji University announces the second round of research grants to build a deeper understanding of the health realities of vulnerable communities in India. We are looking for research that is empirically grounded, methodologically robust, and can inform practice.

Fund Size and Duration:

• Grant value per study: INR 5 – 40 lakh (Please treat as indicative)
• Duration of study: 12 – 24 months (Please treat as indicative)
• We appreciate frugality and request researchers to budget commensurate to the study.
• We encourage primary research, not proposals for add-on funding of existing research.
• In general, budgets will not include the costs of implementation programmes beyond this study. Where such a programme is integral and limited to study, it will be judged as an exception.

Themes:

We invite high-quality research proposals that examine significant questions of public concern in the following areas:

• Theme 1: Studies to understand how to improve health while reducing the economic burden of poor health among vulnerable groups.
• Theme 2: Studies to understand the functioning of, or efforts to improve, public health systems.
• Theme 3: Studies to understand the intersection of gender and health and to reduce gender disparity. Gender includes adolescent girls, the elderly, and gender and sexual minorities

Evaluation:

Proposals will be evaluated based on the following:

• Potential of the study to contribute to research objectives defined above.
• Scope of the study to deepen understanding of and/​​or strengthen vulnerable populations’ health, and their access (physical, economic) to quality healthcare.
• Experience of the investigators and research team relevant to undertaking research in the proposed area.
• Demonstrated ability to work with disadvantaged communities in rural or urban settings.
• Primary research only. No secondary or exploratory research will be considered.
• Feasibility and practical application of the proposed study.
• Quality of application in terms of demonstrating an understanding of the area of the proposed study.
• Proposed utilisation of the funds prudently and thoughtfully.

Eligibility

• Proposals matching the following criteria are eligible to apply.
• We invite applications from researchers from public institutions and non-profit organisations. Independent researchers and those from for-profit organisations are not eligible to apply.
• Your proposed study should address a particular theme and sub-theme from the aforementioned list.
• Organisations can submit a maximum of two applications, with no more than one application per researcher.
• Organisations should be ready to sign a service agreement with Azim Premji University.
• Members of Azim Premji Foundation are not eligible to apply.
• Note that completed studies may be presented or published in relevant forums and media.

How to Apply

• The link for submitting your applications will be active from 20 March 2025 to 30 April 2025 (the last date of submission). Interested researchers must submit the online application form along with the CVs of all collaborating investigators (PIs and Co-PIs).
• Click here to follow the step-by-step instructions for filling out the online form.
• The online application form will seek information on aspects such as the significance of the study, the specific theme and sub-theme, identified research objectives/​​questions, description of expected outcomes, methodology to be applied, indicative timeline, and budget.
• All applications will undergo a detailed review before selection for the next round. Those shortlisted initially will be contacted by the team from the Foundation and requested to submit a detailed proposal. The final selection will be based on this submission.

In case of any queries, write to health.​research@​azimpremjifoundation.​org

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