Awards
Current Awards
a) Research
2016-2019 Wellcome Trust PHATIC Intermediate Fellowship for Kebede Deribe. ‘The Global Atlas of Podoconiosis’. £660,064.
2016-2017 Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. A new view for Ophthalmology in Amhara, Ethiopia. £8.490.
2015-2018 University of Sussex International Research Partnerships and Networks Fund. Tackling podoconiosis in central America. £36,613.
2014-2016 H3Africa Enhancing Ethiopian youths’ literacy about the gene x environment contributions to health using the context of podoconiosis. $149,214.
2013-2017 University of Sussex Chancellor’s International Research Scholarship for Henok Negussie. ‘Defining and managing acute adenolymphangitis in podoconiosis lymphoedema in Northern Ethiopia’. £48,600.
2013-2017 MRC/DfID/Wellcome Trust. RCT of podoconiosis treatment in northern Ethiopia. £791,000.
2013-2017 MRC NTD Highlight Project Grant. Discovering podoconiosis susceptibility genes: from molecules to disease control for a 'neglected' NTD £504,188.
b) Intervention
2016-2018 Izumi Foundation. Gondar Podoconiosis Prevention & Treatment Project. $100,000.
2014-2017 UK BIG Lottery. PREVENTING PODO PROJECT: Expanding Podoconiosis Interventions in Ethiopia. Lottery grant £499,078 of total project £2,214,745.
2014-2016 Start Something That Matters Foundation, to New Venture Fund to support Footwork: International Podoconiosis Initiative. $500,000