Team Grant : GACD 2026: NCD Multi Sectors (Implementation Science to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases: Maximizing Collaboration and Coordination Beyond Healthcare Systems)

This funding opportunity supports implementation research focused on strategies leveraging opportunities provided by settings and sectors beyond the health system in LMICs and/or underserved populations, including Indigenous populations, in HICs.

The projects funded under this call will collectively:

• contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by one third by 2030;
• address implementation of strategies across sectors that will:
  • provide evidence and recommendations to national programmes and policies; aiming to inform policy and practice to address the growing burden of NCDs.
  • expand accessibility of programmes addressing NCDs.
  • promote the early prevention, risk reduction, and timely diagnosis of NCDs.
  • ensure continuity of care for NCDs, from prevention and screening to management in the community.
  • promote improved health outcomes in underserved populations, and low-and middle-income countries.
  • improve quality of life across the life course and extend healthy life expectancy.
  • improve local capacity for implementation research, data collection and harmonisation, and stakeholder engagement for strategies leveraging sectors beyond the health system to tackle non-communicable diseases.

While the focus is on settings outside of the healthcare system, collaboration with the relevant healthcare system(s) as part of the project is expected to facilitate effective design and knowledge mobilization.