Jocalyn Clark is Executive Editor and Scientific Writing Specialist at icddr,b in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She was previously a consultant at Grand Challenges Canada, a Senior Editor at the leading open access medical journal PLOS Medicine, and formerly Assistant Editor at BMJ (British Medical Journal). […]
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Basic Business Terms for Global Health Innovators: A Glossary
Jocalyn Clark is Executive Editor and Scientific Writing Specialist at icddr,b in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She was previously a consultant at Grand Challenges Canada, a Senior Editor at the leading open access medical journal PLOS Medicine, and formerly Assistant Editor at BMJ (British Medical Journal). […]
Theories of Change and Common Metrics Drive Search for Big Impact in Global Health
Grand Challenges Canada funds the full scope of innovations – scientific, technological, social and business – that are needed to address the enormous health challenges that burden low- and middle-income countries.
How a proposal video resulted in a rewarding partnership
Dr. Shaun Morris is one of our innovators in the Stars in Global Health (Round 4) program with a project called ‘A toolkit to save newborn lives’, implemented in Pakistan. He started believing in the power of social media when the video he made to support his grant proposal led to a rewarding business partnership.
Tips for a Strong Proposal
As Grand Challenges Canada summer interns, Jo-Ann Osei-Twum and Ashley Teo have had the privilege of reviewing funded projects in the Stars in Global Health portfolio. With time, trends began to emerge as to what made for a strong and successful proposal. With round 7 of the Stars in Global Health competition recently announced, they are sharing some insights with applicants: tips for a strong Stars in Global Health proposal.
Storytelling in Proposals
You should tell a story in your grant proposal to engage the reader about what you’re doing, why you’re doing it and what the impact will be if the project works. The story you write should lay out a step by step process of the what, why and how of your project.
Proposal Development Workshops in the Field
We feel that researchers around the world, whatever their area of study, can benefit from freely available and expert-generated tips, advice, tools, and resources to help plan and write stronger, more successful grant proposals in global health. We regularly update the content on our online proposal development resource to help build capacity in proposal development, especially among low- and middle-income researchers.
Seeking Advice from your Friends and Peers
When you have a draft proposal ready, use these friends or colleagues as a test – if they don’t understand what you are proposing to do, you need to improve your messaging.
Proposal Talk: What is a “path to scale?”
In many ways thinking about ‘scale’ means thinking like a business person, whether you have an innovation that will appeal to a public funder (like a government health care service) or a private funder (such as a company looking to commercialize and sell your technology).