Global Health Seed Grant Awards
MCHRI Funded Partner
The Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) sponsors the Global Child Health Equity (GCHE) Seed Grants with the Global Child Health program and the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health. The seed grants aim to support two global health seed grants of up to $25,000 each for projects seeking solutions to improve the health of pregnant women and children in low-resource settings.
2023-2024
Development and testing of a low-cost device enabling the use of Foley catheters as pediatric gastrostomy tubes in Chile
PIs: Kunj Sheth, MD, Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Urology
Katherine Hu, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
Past Awards
Project Title: Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a potential child growth intervention?
PI: Jade Benjamin-Chung, PhD MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
Co-PI: Prasanna Jagannathan, Abel Kakuru
Project Title: Impact of Economic Sanctions on Maternal and Child Health
PIs: Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH, Richard E. Behrman, MD Professor of Child Health and Society
Ruth M. Gibson, MS, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Medicine
Contributors: Aleksandra Kirilakha, Maja Pleic, Alexa Hui, Sebastien Bradley, Constantinos Syropoulos, Yoto Yotov
"The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) teams in both Kisumu and Nairobi are incredibly excited about our work; it fits very well into the Kenyan national plan for reducing the burden of HIV and violence, especially among adolescent girls. With support from MCHRI through the Stanford Global Health Seed Grant Program, we are thrilled to be able to partner with them on this."
Clea Sarnquist, DrPH, MPHM
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)