South Asia related Swedish Research Links grants 2011
Last updated: 24 February 2012
The eighth round of the so-called Swedish Research Links (Asian–Swedish research partnership programme) – grants by Sida and the Swedish Research Council – was decided in mid-November 2011. The 8 South Asia related project applications for Swedish Research Links (Asian–Swedish research partnership programme) that were given grants for the three-years period 2012–14 (or part thereof) are presented below.
See the full list of projects granted Swedish Links (Asia) grants 2011 (as a pdf-file)
Karlstad University
• Staffan Jansson and Syed Moniruzzaman, Division of Public Health Sciences, Karlstad University
Project country: Bangladesh
International Planning Grant
Collaboration partner: Fazlur Rahman, Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Dhaka
Project name: Injury risks and abuse of children in occupational settings in Bangladesh
Project grant: SEK 750 000
More information about the project.
Karolinska Institutet Medical University
• Ayesha de Costa, Division of Global Health (IHCAR)
Project country: India
International Collaborative Research Grant
Collaboration partner: Dileep Mavalankar, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar
Project name: Reducing financial barriers to access: Providing evidence from a conditional cash transfer and a voucher based program for maternal mortality reduction in India
Project grant: SEK 732 000
• Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Division of Global Health (IHCAR)
Project country: India
International Collaborative Research Grant
Collaboration partner: Vishal Diwan, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain
Project name: Joint activities linked to the project – Antibiotic pollutants in waters and resistance in rural India – Interventions to improve antibiotic resistance management (APRIAM 2)
Project grant: SEK 750 000
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
• Mannan Mridha, Division of Medical Engineering, School of Technology and Health (STH)
Project country: Bangladesh
International Collaborative Research Grant
Collaboration partner: Mohammad Saiful Islam, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka
Project name: To develop a model of patient safety system to improve the safety and quality of patient care at the Intensive Care Units at the hospitals in Bangladesh.
Project grant: SEK 750 000
More information about the project.
Uppsala University
• Birgitta Essén, Division of International Maternal Health
Project country: India
International Collaborative Research Grant
Collaboration partner: Suneeta Mittal, All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Delhi
Project name: Management of a simplified procedure of medical abortion in India. Facility based RCT studies to improve womens access to safe abortion service.
Project grant: SEK 668 000
• Rajeev Ahuja, Division of Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Project country: India
International Collaborative Research Grant
Collaboration partner: G P Das, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
Project name: Hydrogen storage materials for energy applications
Project grant: SEK 750 000
• Biplab Sanyal, Division of Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Project country: India
International Collaborative Research Grant
Collaboration partner: Subhradip Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT), Guwahati
Project name: Theory of phonon excitations in substitutionally disordered alloys.
Project grant: SEK 719 000
More information about the project.
• Ewert Bengtsson, Centre for Image Analysis
Project country: India
International Collaborative Research Grant
Collaboration partner: Rajesh Kumar, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram
Project name: Medical image analyser for cervical cancer prescreening
Project grant: SEK 654 000
More information about the project.
