Limited Submission Opportunity: AXA Research Fund: Mitigating risk in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
AXA Research Fund: Mitigating risk in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
URL: https://www.axa-research.org/
OBJECTIVES: This program will support emergency research initiatives on the beginning of the crisis and its aftermath and a potential second wave, particularly in lower income countries.
Topics of interest:
- Protecting vulnerable populations from epidemics and catastrophes, including COVID-19: be it migrants, informal settlements, workers in the informal economy, isolated people, people with disabilities, the elderly
- Improving data collection and quality in health: how can data and technology help us get out of the crisis, understand it and mitigate it? How can it inform future containment and epidemic control?
- Understanding the effects of confinement and social distancing: what are the effects of confinement and social distancing on society and households? What are the mental health consequences? The social and domestic repercussions?
- Early warning and preparedness: how do we re-enforce our health infrastructure and ecosystem (including medical devices and drug supply) to be better prepared and how do we protect our health workers and caregivers?
- Preserving the environment and our health: connections between climate change, biodiversity loss and the origin of viral disease including socioeconomic dynamics leading to infectious disease outbreaks and sanitary crisis; Learnings from COVID-19 for mitigating future related crises in climate and biodiversity
FUNDING INFORMATION: Funding available: up to €250k, for a period of up to 2 years. Overhead costs are not eligible, and host institutions must demonstrate buy-in.
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
- Academic institutions anywhere in the world may apply. Hospitals may not apply but may be project collaborators
- Only one applicant per academic department
- Preference given to mid-career researchers between PhD + 6 years and PhD + 10 years maximum
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
As the limit on this opportunity is by academic department, the Office of Research will not be coordinating a review process. If you are interested in applying, please contact the Office of Foundation Relations, which can assist you with your application. For faculty on the Charles River Campus, please contact Joe Loftus (joloftus@bu.edu), and for the Medical Campus, David Gillerman (dgillerm@bu.edu).