For Applicants | Focus Areas | Open Call for Proposals / Health Implementation Science Applicant Resources Apply Application Process Eligibility Focus Areas Find a USG-Supported Partner Frequently Asked Questions Eligible Countries: ASIA Afghanistan Bangladesh Cambodia India Indonesia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sri Lanka Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam EUROPE AND EURASIA Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Georgia Kosovo Macedonia Moldova Serbia SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Angola Benin Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Kenya Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Tanzania Uganda Zambia  LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN Brazil Colombia Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Paraguay Peru MIDDLE EAST Egypt Jordan Lebanon Morocco Tunisia  Additional Criteria for Applicants: Please see Section VI of the Solicitation for General Eligibility requirements. Objectives: PEER would like to support implementation science projects in the following areas: Tuberculosis (TB) Implementation research that aligns with USAID country health priorities in TB Innovative health science and service delivery methodologies which address cross-cutting and emerging TB co-morbidities Research questions around the implementation of Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) in poor or rural communities Research questions around the intersection of TB and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes or tobacco use in poor and rural communities TB transmission and treatment in refugee and migrant communities Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Increase access to and scale up the proven interventions that address the specific causes of maternal and child deaths. Including but not limited to:  Policy reform Updating health personnel and community-based workers with necessary knowledge and skills Using proven approaches to ensure necessary commodities and high quality care reach women and newborns in rural and resource poor communities    Understand health impacts on women and children by disease and extreme poverty in Ebola-stricken countries. Family Planning PEER is funding social science projects with the following objectives: Understanding the dynamics of family planning in changing communities around world Community based interventions that lead to sustainable reproductive health solutions. Some examples could be Integrating and coordinating family planning and HIV/AIDS and STI prevention Linking family planning to broad‐based youth development activities Fostering conditions necessary to expand and institutionalize family planning services Contributing to the sustainability of family planning services Integrating family planning services into other health activities Integrating family planning into routine health care in rural and poor communities For more information on USAID’s Family Planning Guiding Principles please visit: https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/family-planning/usaids-family-planning-guiding-principles-and-us For additional resrouces regarding Implementation Science please see: Writing implementation research grant proposals: ten key ingredients WHO Implementation Research Toolkit *Please note, the PEER program does not support bio-medical clinical trials. Consistent with the goals of PEER, applicants should outline how their research findings will lead to development-related policy or programmatic change. Proposals that include multi-disciplinary research teams, multi-country collaboration, and/or engagement with policy actors and other development stakeholders are desired but not required. All projects must contribute to USAID’s higher education objectives by strengthening engagement with junior researchers and undergraduate/graduate students.