African Snakebite Alliance - Call for Research Grant Applications: Burden and treatment of Snakebite Envenoming

Background on snakebite envenoming and the research grant:
There is a dearth of high-quality research on snakebite, only a small cadre of snakebite researchers, extremely limited evidence on important issues and generally absent or limited snakebite policies. Critical questions and evidence gaps in the public health and policy fields need to be considered if major progress is to be made on halving the harms caused by snakebite.

Qualitative interviews undertaken with eight snakebite stakeholders (researchers, NTD policy makers, non-governmental organisations) emphasized the challenges in developing national policies on snakebite envenoming due to the lack of evidence on the burden and epidemiology of snakebite or high quality and effective treatment options. The Alliance focuses on themes where research and evidence are most urgently needed to shape
policy and practice for addressing snakebite burden in Africa. The topics for this grant are based on a delphi process in four African countries (Eswatini, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda) establishing the research priorities as formulated by policy makers, clinicians, researchers, cooperatives with employees at risk, community leaders, community health workers and people with lived experience.

In this call, two different types of proposals will be funded:
• Three Network research proposals, which should be for 2 years with a maximum budget of £100,000 per proposal
• Two Postdoc research proposals, which should be for 2 years with a maximum budget of £50,000 per proposal