IIHMR Delhi and GKII Formalize Partnership to Advance India RISE
GKII and the International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) Delhi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support the India RISE Fellowship, marking an exciting milestone for the program. As a key academic partner, IIHMR Delhi will host fellowship workshops, convenings, and training programs while contributing to fellows' learning through expert-led sessions, mentorship, and engagement with leaders across the health sector.
The agreement was formally exchanged at IIHMR Delhi in the presence of Dr. Sara Bennett, Faculty Co-Chair of GKII and Professor & Vice Chair in the International Health Department; Dr. Sutapa Neogi, Director of IIHMR Delhi; Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Punit Yadav, Professor and Dean (Academics & Student Affairs) at IIHMR Delhi; and Neetisha Besra, Director, India, Gupta-Klinsky India Institute.
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GKII Launches Needs Assessment Study for NIRAM Palliative Care Centre in Tumkur
GKII is excited to share the launch of a needs assessment study to support the development of services at the NIRAM Palliative Care Centre in Tumkur, Karnataka in collaboration with the Ajit Isaac Foundation. Conducted in partnership with local stakeholders, the study will examine the palliative care needs in rural Karnataka, barriers to accessing care, and opportunities for strengthening service delivery. Findings from the needs assessment study will guide future programming and support expanded access to compassionate, patient-centered care in the region.
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Access & Accountability: Emerging Research on Health Equity and Governance in India
When: Aug. 12, 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. ET / 07:30 p.m. IST
Where: Zoom
Join GKII for a webinar featuring the 2025–2026 Sunil Kumar & Sumati Murli Research Award scholars as they share findings from their doctoral research and fieldwork in India. The discussion will explore how Johns Hopkins researchers are working alongside partners across sectors to address challenges in healthcare access and governance, while offering insights into collaboration, policy-relevant research, and the real-world impact of their work.
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Elevating Teen Voice: Dr. Priya Shankar and the Work of Adolescent Health Champions
This month, we spotlight Dr. Priya Shankar, a pediatrician and Johns Hopkins Adolescent Medicine Fellow whose work focused on adolescent voice, agency, and dignity. Through Adolescent Health Champions, an organization she co-founded with her late husband Ricky Sharma, Dr. Shankar has helped build a peer-led model that trains young people to lead conversations on mental health, menstrual health, gender, relationships, substance use, and wellbeing. What began in Mumbai has grown across schools and communities in India and now in Baltimore, reaching thousands of adolescents through a simple but powerful belief: young people should not only receive health information, but also help shape and share it.
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New in Research: The Other Side of India’s Trading Revolution
GKII Faculty Steering Committee member Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Ph.D., Francis J. Carey, Jr. Endowed Professor in Business and a professor of Finance with Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, examined the rapid growth of retail options trading in India and the risks that have accompanied it. Drawing on research involving millions of investors, his team's new study found that many retail traders concentrate on short-term options, leading to significant losses, despite increased participation in financial markets.
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Welch Center TRaC Grant 2026
Deadline: July 1, 2026
The Welch Center TRaC Grant Program provides awards ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 to support innovative translational research projects. The program is open to Johns Hopkins investigators seeking funding to advance research with the potential to improve health and accelerate translation from discovery to clinical and public health impact.
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Center for Humanizing Medicine Impact Grants
Deadline: July 24, 2026
The Johns Hopkins Center for Humanizing Medicine is accepting applications for its 2026–2027 Impact Grants. Awards of up to $3,000 will support creative, multidisciplinary projects that strengthen connectedness and collaboration among healthcare teams or enhance humanized patient care. The opportunity is open to teams across the Johns Hopkins Health System, including clinical, administrative, environmental services, security, food service, and other staff.
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NEW: Research Resilience Fund
Deadline: See website for updates
The Johns Hopkins Research Resilience Fund provides support for faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, and research teams affected by federal grant terminations, delays, or other disruptions to the research funding landscape. Building on the university's previous Pivot and Bridge Program, the fund offers resources to help sustain research programs, support trainees, and enable investigators to pursue new research and funding opportunities during periods of transition.
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LAB eN² Drug Discovery Accelerator
Request for Proposals Deadline: Rolling Basis
Johns Hopkins researchers are invited to apply to the LAB eN² Drug Discovery Accelerator, a collaboration between Novo Nordisk and Evotec that supports the translation of promising academic discoveries into novel therapeutics. The program provides funding, drug discovery expertise, and access to industry resources to advance early-stage projects focused on cardiometabolic diseases, rare blood disorders, and rare endocrine diseases from concept toward preclinical development.
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Strengthening Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Surveillance in Asia
Deadline: June 22, 2026
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking applications to strengthen tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance in India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Through this cooperative agreement, the program will support activities that improve TB case finding, preventive treatment, treatment outcomes, and surveillance, with approximately $3 million in total funding anticipated for the first year, subject to the availability of funds.
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Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants
Deadline: June 22, 2026
The Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants provide $150,000 to support early-career researchers developing innovative approaches in human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy for major global diseases. The program is open to investigators 35 years of age and younger whose research has the potential to advance vaccine and immunotherapy development through novel concepts and technologies.
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U.S.-India TRUST Fellowship
Deadline: June 30, 2026
The U.S.-India TRUST Fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty from leading U.S. institutions to conduct collaborative research at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The 12-month fellowship is designed to strengthen U.S.-India research partnerships in strategic technology fields while fostering long-term scientific collaboration between researchers in both countries.
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Searle Scholars Program Internal
Deadline: July 23, 2026
The Searle Scholars Program supports outstanding early-career faculty pursuing innovative research in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related fields in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences. Johns Hopkins may nominate up to two assistant professors who began their first tenure-track appointment on or after May 1, 2025, to compete for funding that supports independent, high-impact research programs.
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Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation Grants
Deadline: July 23, 2026
The Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation is a non-profit private foundation that focuses its support on promising early-stage medical researchers engaged in projects with the potential to result in understanding an important disease process or leading to a new therapeutic intervention. The ideal candidate is affiliated with an outstanding medical research institution and is working independently. The ideal candidate would be an assistant or associate professor who has had a K award or equivalent and is now seeking independent funding such as an R award.
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Weiss Asset Management Foundation - Programs and Research to Alleviate Human Suffering
Deadline: Rolling
Weiss Asset Management Foundation invites proposals from organizations and researchers that engage in highly cost-effective work to alleviate human suffering in low- and lower-middle-income countries. Most grants will range from approximately $50,000 to $1.5 million. There is no lower bound, and in exceptional circumstances, grants may exceed $1.5 million.
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