Africa Health Research Institute

2025–2032 · research · Discovery Award

Clonal and functional T cell determinants of protection and pathogenesis in tuberculosis.

Prof Alasdair Leslie · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£1.5M

2025 · research · Post PhD Research Grant

Aggrey Gisiora Mokaya

Aggrey Gisiora Mokaya · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wenner-Gren Foundation

2025–2027 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To build data science capacity among early-career African researchers through training in reproducible analysis, advanced statistical computing, an...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$316kGenetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

2025–2028 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to characterize persons with asymptomatic tuberculosis (TB) and their household contacts, to estimate the contribution of asymptomatic TB to overal...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$9.8MTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

2024–2027 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To identify biomarkers across the spectrum of subclinical tuberculosis in humans to help understand how to deploy TB interventions most effectively...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$3.5MTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

2024–2027 · grant · Population and Public Health

The impact of extreme weather events on the mental health of vulnerable populations in Africa (WEMA project)

Collins Iwuji · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£2.5MClimate Change and Health Impacts

2024–2027 · grant · Climate Impacts Award

The impact of extreme weather events on the mental health of vulnerable populations in Africa (WEMA project)

Prof Dr Collins Iwuji · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£2.5M

2024–2028 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to support career development opportunities for CAVD early career investigators

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.5M

2024 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to bring together LMIC scientists, clinicians, HIV advocates, funders, industry, socio-behavioral scientists and regulators to draft a guideline do...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$190k

2024–2026 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To explore the acceptability, feasibility and role of blood based HIV self-testing to support safe decentralisation of PrEP choice along the PrEP c...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.4M

2024–2027 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To evaluate immunology endpoints and Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) expression in participants in the C114 trial

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$4.7M

2024–2027 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To support data and evidence gathering to understand requirements for TB vaccines launch in South Africa. Developing concepts to look at an integr...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.5M

2024–2028 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To identify and support innovative HIV vaccine research with proximal partners that aligns with HIV strategy

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$8.3M

2024–2029 · research · NIHR Global Health Research

ImpRoving outcomEs of inFants, chIldreN, and adolEscents with HIV (REFINE)

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Department of Health and Social Care

£1.9M

2024–2026 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To explore how PrEP choice in the context of long-acting products is understood and used by young people and service providers to explore preferen...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$1.2M

2024–2029 · fellowship · Career Development Award

Assessing the potential epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of a status-neutral HIV care approach integrated with other sexual health services for adolescents and young adults in South Africa: a mathematical modelling study

Dr Edinah Mudimu · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£2M

2023–2028 · fellowship · Immune System in Health and Disease

Viral and metabolic determinants of HIV-1 reservoir establishment and persistence in ART treated individuals

Omolara Biayegunhi · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£647.3kHIV Research and Treatment

2023–2025 · award · Immune System in Health and Disease

Stimulating systemic regional uptake of principles of good RCTs in Low and Middle Income Countries

Martin Landray · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£848.4k

2023–2027 · fellowship · Population and Public Health

Adaptation and optimisation of the WHO Problem Management Plus (PM+) for ALHIV in adverse settings of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Nothando Ngwenya · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£358.3k

2023–2028 · fellowship · Early-Career Award

Viral and metabolic determinants of HIV-1 reservoir establishment and persistence in ART treated individuals

Dr Omolara Olujimi Biayegunhi · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£647.3k

2023–2026 · grant · Directed Call

Adaptive responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants in the context of hybrid immunity and immune impairment

Prof Alexander Sigal · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£3.2M

2023–2024 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - To conduct a review and analysis of the COVID-19 vaccine development literature and interview key contributors to ascertain what lessons could be l...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$33.8k

2023–2027 · fellowship · International Intermediate Fellowship

Adaptation and optimisation of the WHO Problem Management Plus (PM+) for ALHIV in adverse settings of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Prof Nothando Ngwenya · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£358.3k

2022–2025 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to understand human leukocyte antigen (HLA) diversity in Africa to support HIV T cell vaccine development

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$2.9M

2022–2026 · fellowship · International Training Fellowship

Developing and pretesting a sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) school health promotion intervention to reduce sexual transmission of HIV in a high-burden rural setting in KwaZulu-Natal

Dr Natsayi Chimbindi · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£141.2k

2022–2025 · training-grant · Population and Public Health

Developing and pretesting a sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) school health promotion intervention to reduce sexual transmission of HIV in a high-burden rural setting in KwaZulu-Natal

Natsayi Chimbindi · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£141.2kAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

2022–2027 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to expand access to spatial imaging capabilities in Africa for infectious disease research

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$2.9M

2022 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to convene experts on SARS-CoV-2 variants and evolution in South Africa so that future vaccines and therapies can be informed by data from African ...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$94.6k

2022–2023 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to develop a proposal for a multi-center research project, designed to determine the contribution of subclinical tuberculosis diagnosed in the comm...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$360.8k

2022–2026 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to characterize the full spectrum of transcription program of immune cells that modulate the HIV reservoir

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$2.9M

2021–2026 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to investigate the impact of universal risk-informed biosocial HIV prevention through decentralized sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services i...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$6.8M

2021–2024 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to support the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health in using a data driven approach to improving TB and HIV outcomes in the province

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$2.9M

2021–2024 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to provide support for innovative projects in HIV and TB prevention by an African-led consortium

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$5M

2021–2024 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to expand the scope of tissue immunology research in Africa through supporting the placement and training of spatial -omics technology that can be ...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$1M

2020–2023 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to support the KZN Dept of HEalth to establish a provincial health data centre to improve the control of TB and HIV in the province

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$821.7k

2020–2024 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to develop new drugs to boost the effects of tuberculosis vaccination by performing a genetic screen, Tn-seq, to identify specific bacterial genes ...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$200k

2020–2023 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to help develop new therapies to fully eradicate HIV by identifying the molecular mechanisms inhibiting the entry of CD8 killer T cells into lymph ...

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$200k

2020–2023 · training-grant · Immune System in Health and Disease

Characterization of the phenotypic and transcriptional profiles of B cells that encode broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV

Daniel Muema · Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Wellcome Trust

£241.2kHIV Research and Treatment

2020–2021 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to plan for a PrEP implementation experiment in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$398.7k

2020–2025 · research · Global Health

Africa Health Research Institute NPC - to understand how HIV and TB change the course of COVID-19 infection, and whether COVID-19 influences HIV and TB

Africa Health Research Institute · funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

$4.1M