WHO Regional Office-supported research grants have been developed to support research for health initiatives in the Member States of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, with a focus on utilizing “research for health” as a tool to promote health and development and to enhance the use of research-based evidence in health policy and planning.

The Research Policy and Development programme currently supports five research grant schemes – "Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Special Grant for COVID-19 Research, 2022", "Migration Health Research", “Regional Office/Research in Priority Areas of Public Health”; “Improving Programme Implementation through Embedded Research”, in coordination with the “Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research” based at WHO headquarters, in addition to the “Joint Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean/Tropical Disease Research small grants scheme for implementation research in infectious diseases of poverty”, offered in coordination with the “Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases” also based at WHO headquarters.

Research reports

Improving programme implementation through embedded research (iPIER)

Research in Priority Areas of Public Health

Tropical Disease Research Small Grant Scheme

Related links

Latest set of impact grants will help tackle infectious diseases of poverty in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Call for research proposals: Special Grant for Research in Priority Areas of Public Health, 2022–2023

Call for proposals: Joint EMRO/TDR Impact Grants for regional priorities focused on implementation research in infectious diseases of poverty

Call for proposals: Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Special Grant for COVID-19 Research, 2022

Call for proposals: Implementation research and gender: A contribution to implement TDR’s Intersectional Gender Research Strategy

Migration Health Research