The UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) recently launched a call inviting applications to establish Global Health Research Units and Global Health Research Groups http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/global-health. UK Higher Education Institutions and Research Institutes are being invited to work in partnership with low and middle income countries (LMICs, as defined by the DAC list) to deliver research up to the value of £7m that benefits people living in those countries.

NETSCC, who are managing the call, are seeking experts based within the Cochrane network to become peer reviewers for these applications to help identify the strongest ones for funding. We are looking for people working at a senior level who would be able to comment on the importance, quality and deliverability of the proposed programmes of work. We are particularly keen to invite experts based in LMICs, but if you are based in a non-LMIC and are working in any area of global health research we are also keen to hear from you.

Call close: 26 January

Tasks sent to reviewers: 7 February

Deadline for comments: 14 February

This short timeline is due to the requirements around allocating the funding by April 2017, so we would ask reviewers to hold this time in their diary.

If you would be interested in signing up to support this important work, please e-mail NIHRglobalhealth@soton.ac.uk .