Public Health care delivery in Cameroon faces significant challenges such as high out of pocket expenditure, inadequate quality health care services. critical shortages in health care personnel, the lack of adequate infrastructure as well as the absence of credible health insurance schemes. This has led to a decrease in the demand for health care services and consequent increase in morbidity and mortality.

The Foretia Foundation has been tackling many of these challenges by focusing on current public health issues. Also,  advocating for innovative, research guided health-related policies. The Foundation seeks to promote research in health-related fields, with the ultimate aim of improving the health status of Cameroonians. However, the lack of funding has been a major hurdle to health research and development in Cameroon. Young researchers, due to the lack of appropriate funding and support, are unable to develop and publish potentially groundbreaking ideas. Ideas which could serve as the evidence needed to revise existing yet failing health policies, or develop new and more effective ones.

The Foretia Foundation intends to bridge this gap. Further,  by providing young researchers with funds needed to cover research work in any health-care related topic. Further, The health research grant initiative will support young Cameroonian researchers. With the funds needed to cover expenses incurred from research. It will equally provide them with the opportunity to work with, and also,  be mentored by research experts from the foundation. Additionally, Combined, this will be a big step in the development and realization of specific and well defined innovative and groundbreaking health-related research projects with the objective of addressing public health issues in Cameroon and Promoting the implementation of evidence-based health policies.

Benefit

• Funds provided shall be up to a maximum of 500,000 FCFA per research project.

Eligibility

• Aged 40 years and below at the time the application of the grant
• Be a Master’s or PhD student (in a health-related field), or be a holder of a Master’s degree. or PhD (in a health-related field) obtained within the last 10 years
• Be resident, studying or working in Cameroon.