Research Forum 2025: Call for Contributors

Our 2025 Research Forum will be a 3-day event, held in Nairobi, Kenya between 7-9 May 2025, co-hosted with the African Population Health Research Center (APHRC).

Who will be there?

The Forum will bring together researchers from academic institutions, particularly those from low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) affected by crisis, humanitarian organisations and practitioners, and other key actors in the sector. The Forum will serve as a platform for dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge exchange, exploring pressing humanitarian challenges, and the role of research evidence and equitable partnerships in addressing these.

Theme

Recognising the impact of the climate crisis on the health of populations affected by humanitarian crisis, the title and overarching theme of the Forum is:

Bridging Global Health Research and Humanitarian Response in a Climate-Impacted World.

Forum objectives:

1. Galvanising action on evidence gaps for climate-induced health impacts
2. Shifting power to lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
3. Promoting research quality, ethics, and impact
4. Fostering collaboration and partnerships

Our Forum will be held alongside and in connection with the Fogarty-led Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research (GFH2R) to capitalise on our joint efforts to progress humanitarian health research. 

Forum themes

For information and resources related to the key themes of the Forum, download the Background Note.

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Call for Contributors

We are inviting humanitarian health research, policy, and practice experts, with experience relevant to our key objectives and themes of the Forum, to contribute to making it a stimulating, engaging, and inclusive event. This is not a traditional conference, and creative contributions relevant to our objectives are very welcome. We anticipate that all contributors accepted to the Forum will have their flights and accommodation costs covered, either directly, or through existing R2HC-grants.

How to apply?

All applicants must fill out a short form. We also welcome inclusion of examples or outputs which support your application, such as multimedia, videos, podcasts, or infographics. Examples must be concise (under 3 minutes to listen/watch/read). Applications are requested in English language as the Forum will be in English. However, if you would prefer to contribute in a different language please mention this in your application. We will consider non-English contributions for online communications and webinars where there may be the ability to translate and/or caption materials. Your application will be processed via a separate platform that we use, called Common Grant Application (CGA).Deadline to apply: 23:59 GMT, 15 December 2024.Before submitting your application, please send any queries you may have to the team at R2HC@localhost. (Note: please do not send your application to this email address. These should be submitted to our dedicated platform – information is in the Call for Contributors document above).

How to apply

For more information about how to apply, download the Call for Contributors document.

[.cta_link]Read the Call for Contributors [.cta_link]