Global Health Investment Corporation

Frontier Fund

Breakthrough research ideas should be focused on early-stage research and will optimally lead to the development of new inventions, tools, platforms, and resources that are beneficial to global health security.

Program Details

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The goal of the Frontier Fund is to support early-stage research that will contribute and/or lead directly to the invention of new platforms, tools, or technologies to address unmet needs and/or overcome prevailing research bottlenecks in global health security. In addition, by issuing targeted awards, the Frontier Fund will build and foster a community of investigators who are committed to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in global health security research across diverse and complementary research domains.

If these goals are achieved, the outcomes of the Frontier Fund will be:

  1. the generation of research outputs, data, and intellectual property that will lead to new public and/or private initiatives, including the discovery of new health security innovations and medical countermeasures, and

  2. the establishment of research networks and a pipeline of investigators who will play leading roles in defining and pushing the global health security research agenda into the future. The anticipated impact of the Frontier Fund is the creation of a critical mass of influential investigators who will drive the global health security research agenda in a sustainable and long-term way to be responsive to future health security threats.

The Frontier Fund will distribute funding using three main channels: grants, investigator fellowships, and ecosystem building activities. The duration of the awards and fellowships will span between 2-4 years depending on the proposed project scope and scale of investment. The focus of the awards is to support breakthrough research, particularly those that are high-risk, but have the potential for high impact. The Frontier Fund has identified three priority areas for awards:

  • Paradigm changing ideas: unconventional or novel approaches, tools, platforms, or technologies that propel the field forward or opens a new area of health security innovations

  • Solve known bottlenecks: address existing challenges that limit the utility, scale up, or efficacy of existing innovations

  • Generate enabling resources: generate resources or data that are broadly beneficial and enabling to the field