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This Grand Challenges call, administered by the Science for Africa Foundation with the Gates Foundation, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and the Pasteur Network, funds African-led projects applying artificial intelligence and specifically large language models to health challenges, at up to 100,000 US dollars for up to 12 months.
It was a follow-up to an initial Gates Foundation call and ran with country-specific portals for Ethiopia, Senegal and South Africa alongside the pan-African route.
Five application areas are named: clinical decision support for diagnosis and healthcare delivery; population health and policymaking through data insights; frontline health worker coaching and workflow management; health communications bridging language and literacy gaps; and health systems strengthening and data interoperability. The defining feature is the equity architecture rather than the science scope.
The lead investigator must be based in Africa, at least 80 per cent of funding must reach an organisation in the geography of interest, and women-led organisations are particularly encouraged; research organisations, NGOs and implementers are all eligible.
That combination makes it one of the clearer examples of a Global South AI funding instrument designed to place decision-making and budget authority locally rather than routing them through Northern intermediaries.
This round closed on 7 November 2023, but Grand Challenges calls recur and the SFA Foundation has continued to expand its AI and data science portfolio; the structure here is a reliable template for what African-led AI health calls require. Applicants should watch the SFA Foundation funding page and the Grand Challenges portal for successor rounds.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: The project must be led by an investigator based in Africa, which is the geography of interest, and proposals must demonstrate that at least 80 per cent of the funding goes to an organisation within that geography. Global partners may be included but only as secondary collaborators. Eligible organisation types are research organisations, NGOs and implementers; women-led organisations are particularly encouraged to apply. Awards are up to 100,000 US dollars per project for a term of up to 12 months. Country-specific portals existed for applicants in Ethiopia, Senegal and South Africa, alongside the pan-African route, with partners also spanning Brazil and India. Applications were submitted through the SFA Foundation's Agaseke grant management system at agaseke.scienceforafrica.foundation. The deadline was 7 November 2023 at 5:00 PM East Africa Time and this round has closed. Proposals had to address one of five named areas: clinical decision support, population health and policymaking, frontline health worker coaching and workflow management, health communications bridging language and literacy gaps, or health systems strengthening and data interoperability. Applicants should monitor the SFA Foundation funding page and Grand Challenges portal for successor calls, and verify current eligibility and flow-of-funds requirements before preparing a submission. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows grants are up to 100,000 US dollars per project for a term of up to 12 months, which is what amount_min and amount_max reflect. This is seed-scale funding and the term is short, so the realistic unit of work is a focused pilot or feasibility study rather than a powered trial or a full deployment. The constraint that matters more than the ceiling is the flow-of-funds rule: proposals must demonstrate that at least 80 per cent of the funding goes to an organisation within the geography of interest, and the project must be led by an investigator based in Africa. That is a deliberate structural correction to the common pattern in global health AI funding where a Northern institution leads and African partners subcontract, and it means a consortium designed the conventional way will fail on eligibility rather than on science. Global partners are permitted but only as secondary collaborators drawing at most 20 per cent of budget. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was November 7, 2023, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Catalysing Equitable Artificial Intelligence Use to Improve Global Health for African-Led Research on Large Language Models in Health Systems is funded by Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation), with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, the Pasteur Network and Grand Challenges partners in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Senegal and South Africa. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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