Gates Foundation: Innovative Data and Modeling Approaches to Measure Women’s Health

To advance innovative ways to measure women’s health by either developing new measurement models or adapting existing ones to better capture the full scope of women’s health burdens and progress. Specifically, the objectives of the Challenge will be to:
* Reimagine new ways to understand and measure women’s health…
* Use existing data sets or easily collectible datasets to quantify women’s health outcomes across countries…
* Design innovative methodologies that incorporate gendered, socio-cultural, economic, and structural determinants of health, ensuring a comprehensive gender-sensitive approach.
* Create tools or frameworks that enable cross-cultural or subnational comparative analysis, identifying context-specific gaps and progress.
* Reflect the interconnected dimensions of women’s health across the life course
* Incorporate gaps in the measurement of:
>>  Skills, knowledge, and networks…
>>  Supply and access to services…
>> Health and economic impacts…
>>  Produce outputs that are: Methodologically rigorous… Interpretable and actionable… Comparative and scalable… Gender-sensitive and intersectional… Policy-relevant and decision-oriented.

Funding: up to $150K over 2 years.  We particularly encourage applications involving projects led by women, early-career researchers and practitioners seeking to innovate in women’s health measurement, or from women-led organizations and applications from institutions based in low- and middle-income countries. We also encourage collaborative submissions across disciplines such as economics, public health, and gender studies.

** If interested, register to a dedicated webinar on March 4, from 7:00 to 8:00 AM Pacific Time for a comprehensive overview of the RFP details and an opportunity to have your questions answered. To participate in the webinar, please register and submit your questions in advance.  The webinar will be recorded and available on this challenge page after the session.

https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovative-data-and-modeling-approaches-measure-womens-health