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Thursday 1 September 2011

ICMR/Call for Letters of Intent Addressing National Implementation Research Priorities /2011


Call for Letters of Intent 
Addressing National Implementation Research Priorities  
Deadline: 30 September 2011


Improving maternal, newborn and child survival is a global and national priority. There are 
known, effective health interventions which can substantially improve survival, but these 
interventions are not reaching all those in need. Recognizing the role of implementation 
research in improving access to efficacious interventions, a national initiative supported by 
the World Health Organization has been launched. In this initiative, implementation research 
is defined as research that: 

a. Identifies common implementation problems and their main determinants which hinder
effective access to interventions, and develops and tests practical solutions to these
problems; and
b. Determines the best way of introducing these practical solutions into the health system
and facilitates their full scale implementation, evaluation and modification as required.
Implementation research priorities
A national workshop was held in July 2011 to identify implementation research priorities.
Participants in this workshop included programme managers, technical experts and national
research organizations. Key barriers for scaling up of interventions in the country were
identified and research questions to address these barriers were listed. These questions were
scored by participants based on six standard criteria, including answerability by research,
potential impact, relevance to barriers to scaling up, innovation and originality, potential
effect on equity, and likelihood of use of research results by policy-makers and programme
managers. The following questions emerged as the highest priorities:
1. How can doctors, nurses and technicians be attracted and retained in rural and hard to
reach areas?
2. How can mothers, newborns and children needing health care be reached in hard to
reach places?
3. How can the coverage and quality of home visits, particularly on the first day after
birth, be improved?
4. How can mobile phones be used to improve the delivery of maternal, newborn and
child health services?
5. How can quality maternal, newborn and child health care be provided in first level
facilities in remote and hard to reach areas which do not have doctors?
6. How can children with severe acute malnutrition be managed using a communitybased strategy for identification and treatment?
Call for Letters of Intent
Addressing National Implementation Research Priorities
Deadline: 30 September 20112
7. How can 24/7 availability of medicines and other necessary supplies to all health
workers be ensured?
8. How can health workers, at facility and community level, be supervised on a regular
basis with high quality?
9. How can motivation and performance of health care workers be achieved and
maintained using financial and/or non-financial incentives?
10. How can quality of health care received by mothers, newborns and children in health
facilities be improved?
Purpose of the Call
Through this call, we are inviting letters of  intent for conducting implementation research
studies that would address the above-mentioned priority questions. It is expected that the
proposed studies will develop different options for addressing the implementation issue
relevant to the questions and evaluate these options using appropriate study designs.
The research teams with the selected letters  of intent will be supported to develop full
research proposals and assisted in finding funds to support the research.
Intended recipients of this call
This call is intended for research institutions and teams within the country, who are involved
or interested in implementation research.
Prerequisites for application
1. The principal investigator shall be an Indian national.
2. The composition of the research team must be multidisciplinary in two aspects:
a. mix of expertise (e.g. clinical expertise, social sciences, epidemiology, statistics,
health systems, health economics; etc.); and
b. mix of roles and responsibilities within the health system (e.g. researchers, policymakers, programme managers, members of NGOs/civil society; etc.);
3. Each research team must include at least one policy-maker or programme manager who
should be part of the core decision-making team of the research project;
4. Each research study shall have an integral component on research capacity strengthening;
5. Each research study shall emphasize how the findings of the study will be generalizable
to other settings within the country;
6. Each letter of intent shall describe the roles and responsibilities of each team member – in
particular the policy-maker or programme manager– in the conduct and successful
development of the study. 3
How to apply?
The deadline for the submission of letters of intent is 1 September 2011. Letters of intent
should be sent by e-mail in English and should not exceed six A4 size pages with font size of
at least 10. They should include the following:
i. Title of the research study;
ii. Name, affiliation, and complete address (including e-mail, phone and fax numbers) of
the principal investigator;
iii. Team composition, and a description of the skills and capacity of the team;
iv. Justification of the study (including how expected results will contribute to scaling up
of maternal, newborn and child health interventions), and a brief summary of the
related work from the literature;
v. Objectives of the study;
vi. Brief description of the methodology (study area, target population, study design,
sample size, data collection and analysis, etc.);
vii. Feasibility of implementing the study in the proposed setting by the research team:
viii. Ethical considerations;
ix. Time lines;
x. Expected budget;
xi. Curriculum vitae of the principal investigators and key team members (maximum 1
page for each investigator;  these will not be counted against the 6-page limit of the
letter of intent).
Selection process
Letters of intents will be reviewed on a competitive basis by a panel of independent experts,
based on the following criteria:
i. Relevance of the proposed study to the Call, based on the objectives and justification
provided;
ii. Appropriateness of methods for achieving the objectives;
iii. Feasibility of implementing the study;
iv. Capacity of the research team: multi-disciplinary expertise, research experience,
experience of working with health programmes;
The short listed research teams (a maximum of 8) will be notified and the research team will
be invited to participate to a proposal development workshop, which will be organized in
December 2011 (tentative dates).
The research teams will be assisted in finding funding support for the developed proposals
from national and international funding agencies. 4
Where to send the letter of intent?
Please write for additional information and send the letter of intent to:

To, 
(LOI, Implementation Research Programme) 
Dr. K.Satyanarayana 
Scientist ‘G’ and Head RHN 
Indian Council of Medical Research  
V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110-029 
Telephone: 265889258 
Fax: 26588755 
E-mail: kanikaram_s@yahoo.com 

IMPORTANT:  Please make sure to include the following wording in the subject line of the
e-mail: Letter of Intent, Implementation Research on Maternal, Newborn
and Child Health

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