About the Project

The Translating Research into Action (TRAction) Project is a five-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Leader with Associate Cooperative Agreement.  This health research grants project focuses on maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and other related services. The project is directed by University Research Co., LLC in collaboration with partner Harvard University School of Public Health.

The project addresses the “know-do” gap or delay between the discovery of effective ways to combat the causes of mortality and morbidity and the application of these proven interventions on a wide scale. Rigorous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of numerous ways of reducing health disparities around the world. But national level decision-makers, donors, and program implementers in many settings often lack evidence about the best ways to introduce and implement such interventions on a national scale. If each country’s Millennium Development Health Goals are to be met in the targeted timeframes, these know-do gaps must be quickly closed. 

TRAction is part of USAID’s Health Research Program (HaRP), USAID’s approach to research and the translation of research into use. HaRP provides USAID with mechanisms for conducting health research for development and testing of new and better tools, technologies, approaches, policies, and interventions to improve the health status of infants, children, mothers, and families in developing and transitional countries.

URC will solicit proposals primarily on a competitive basis and award grants to research organizations, especially host country research institutions, to study and evaluate ways to most effectively and efficiently introduce, implement, and scale up evidence-based MNCH interventions. 

 
 

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The Translating Research into Action project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under cooperative agreement GHS-A-00-09-00015-00. The information provided on this web site is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government.