Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso

D'Ambruoso (PI), van der Merwe M (CI). Building bridges: institutionalising practical solutions for community participation in rural South Africa through primary health care policy and practice engagement Changing Policy and Practice 

Medical Research Foundation

2024-25

29,960 GBP

D'Ambruoso (PI), Duffy S (CI), Watson K (CI), Littlejohn C (CI). Cost of living/cost of smoking: participatory research on smoking in deprived communities within the cost-of-living crisis

CRUK/ASH Scotland

2023

72,485 GBP

P Abbott (PI), Binagwaho A (PI), L D’Ambruoso (CI) et al. NIHR Global Health Research Group on Promoting Children’s and Adolescent’s Mental Wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa

NIHR

2022-26

2,717,954 GBP

Davies J (PI), Chu K (PI), D’Ambruoso L (CI) et al. NIHR Global Health Group on Equitable Access to Quality Health Care for Injured People in Four Low- or Middle-Income Countries: Equi-injury

NIHR

2022-26

2,955,703 GBP

Davies J (PI) D’Ambruoso L (CI) et al. Rwanda912: Use of an electronic communications platform to improve pre-hospital transport of injured people

NIHR

2022-27

3,199,931 GBP

D'Ambruoso L (PI), Byass P (Co-I), Witter S (Co-I), Kahn K (Co-I), Tollman S (Co-I), R Twine (Co-I), B Spies (Co-I), M van der Merwe (Co-I). Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR): expanding the knowledge base through partnerships for action on health equity

MRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust, DFID

2017-23

705,647 GBP

Loewenson R (PI), D'Ambruoso L (CI). Fostering policy support for child and family wellbeing - Learning from international experience

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

2018-20

289,600 USD

D'Ambruoso L (PI), Abbott P (Deputy-PI), Douglas F (CI), Okpo E (CI), McPherson E (CI). Empowerment approaches to food poverty in Northeast Scotland In: Learning from international experience on approaches to community power and participation in health

Training and Research Support Centre

2016-18

16,000 GBP

D'Ambruoso L (PI), Byass P (CI), Hurtig AK (CI), Kahn K (CI), Tollman S (CI). Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR): Developing a people-centred health systems research methodology. Development Grant

MRC, ESRC, Wellcome Trust, DFID

2015-16

99,604 GBP

Hussein J (PI), Newlands D (CI), D’Ambruoso L (CI). Review of maternal and newborn health policies in five South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan). Policy Review

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia

2007-08

300,000 USD

D’Ambruoso L (PI), van der Merwe M (CI), Nombuyiselo (CI). Expanding a Community Health Worker training intervention in rural South Africa to transfer methods and maximise uptake and impact

UKRI-GCRF/Newton 

2023

9,868 GBP

D’Ambruoso L (PI), Ignatowicz A, Tshabalala K, Davies J (CI), Byiringiro JC (CI), Knowledge exchange for participation in health: participatory methods and capabilities for evidence-informed injury care in Rwanda

UKRI-GCRF/Newton

2023

9,786 GBP

D’Ambruoso L, van der Merwe M, Goosen G, Sigudla J, Ballantyne L, Littlejohn C, Duffy S. “Covid and the community”: International collaborative exchange developing whole systems community engagement as preventative interventions for COVID-19

Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund 

2022

17,765 GBP

D’Ambruoso L, Loewenson R, Okpo E, Shivaji T, Littlejohn C, Bell J, Paranjothy S, Black C. Developing learning health systems: building alliances and piloting processes to inform and support local decision-making for COVID-19

GCRF Institutional Pump Priming Fund 

2020

19,994 GBP

D’Ambruoso L, Witter S. Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR): expanding the knowledge base through partnerships for action on health equity (COVID-19 Response)

Scottish Funding Council GCRF Covid-19 Response

2021

42,048 GBP

D’Ambruoso L, Witter S, Twine R, Kahn K, Tollman S. Verbal Autopsy with Participatory Action Research (VAPAR): expanding the knowledge base through partnerships for action on health equity (COVID-19 Response)

UKRI Covid-19 Extension Allocation Fund

2020-21

22,955 GBP

Anderson l, Camanda J, Chocolate FAM, Buco R, D’Ambruoso L, Lohfeld L. Evaluating opportunities and barriers to establishing an autonomous and functional sickle cell anaemia (SCA) unit in Cabinda, Angola

GCRF Institutional Pump Priming Fund 

2020

55,570 GBP

Abbott P (PI), D’Ambruoso L (CI) Strengthening health care systems in Rwanda and Ethiopia to provide care in the community

GCRF Institutional Pump Priming Fund 

2020

7,010 GBP

D’Ambruoso L (PI), Black C (CI); Van Der Merwe M (Co-I); Mdluli D (Co-I) Schneider H (Co-I); Witter S (Co-I). Developing learning health systems in South Africa: building interdisciplinary capacity for evidence- based decision-making and health systems strengthening to improve care and outcomes

GCRF Institutional Pump Priming Fund 

2019-20

9,990 GBP

D'Ambruoso L (PI), Byass P (CI). Extending verbal autopsy: developing routine field surveillance methods to measure and understand burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries

REF2021 Impact Support Award 

2018-19

9,944 GBP

N’Dow J (PI), D'Ambruoso L (CI). Women’s Health Outcomes Improvement for West Africa Initiative

Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) Scottish Funding Council 

2018

9,940 GBP

Martin K (PI), Macfarlane G (Co-I), D’Ambruoso L (Co-I). Maintaining Exercise Long Term: Determining Influences on Chronic widespread pain

NHS Endowment Fund

2014-15

9,709 GBP

D'Ambruoso L (PI). Supporting Work Based Placements with Health and Development Sector Organisations in Uganda, South Africa and Scotland

Making the Most of the Masters Scottish Funding Council (SFC)

2014-15

1,500 GBP

D'Ambruoso L. Developing a reader on participatory action research, Stockholm Writers Meeting. And Disseminating at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: Cape Town 2014

International Development Research Centre, Canada (IDRC) Conference Award

2013-14

3,016 GBP