Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: various opportunities

*Accelerate Development of New Therapies for Childhood Cryptosporidium Infection:

Aim: to develop broadly applicable approaches that can be used to accelerate development of therapeutic interventions, rather than to support the development of specific interventions themselves.

*Assess Family Planning Needs, Preferences and Behaviors to Inform Innovations in Contraceptive Technologies

Aim: to support the generation of primary knowledge and evidence to improve our understanding of needs, preferences and behaviors among specific groups of contraceptive users and non-users, including service providers, to inform the design and development of innovations in family planning methods.

*Design New Solutions to Data Integration for Malaria Elimination*

innovative solutions for improving data availability and use in decision-making for malaria elimination that focus on innovation in interoperability: solutions that will reduce the time for data harmonization by automation or skill set simplification.

*Develop Novel Platforms to Accelerate Contraceptive Drug Discovery*

This call is soliciting concepts for contraceptive discovery platforms that can contribute to development of new methods suitable for women or men living in limited resource settings. Such platforms will be essential to support the foundation’s efforts to develop new methods that would be safe and effective for long-term regular use, in the form of injectables, implants, or regular oral contraception

http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant-opportunities