Application Form & Review Criteria
Application & Funding Timeline
- Funding Period: May 1, 2025-April 30, 2026
- Applications Open: September 23, 2024
- Application Deadline: December 16, 2024
- Awardee Notifications: April 2025 (tentative)
- Awardees Announced: April 16, 2025 (tentative)
- Report Due: May 30, 2026
Note: GKII reserves the right to modify award deadlines due to operational circumstances. In the case review timelines are changed, all applicants will be notified of updates.
Application Resources
- Sample Budget Template
- Research Plans | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Sample Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) | NIH
Review Criteria
- Merit-Based Award: Candidates are evaluated on overall academic accomplishments, involvement in leadership roles and co-curricular activities, and contributions to the research project as future scientists.
- Research Quality: Research proposals are evaluated on the quality of research proposal and methodology, relevance to India, feasibility of timeframe and outcomes, budget alignment, strength of U.S.-India collaborations, long-term potential, and overall innovation and impact.
- Relevance to India Research and Scientific Potential
- Scientific Approach: Rigor and Technical Merit
- Innovation: Novelty and Impact
- Collaboration: Strength of Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Significance: Impact on Knowledge, Practice, Outcomes, or Policy
- Viability: Feasibility of Project Completion Within a 12-Month Period
- Sustainability: Likelihood the Project will Promote Continued Collaboration
- Budget: Assessment of Budget Aligned to Project Activities and Award Funds
- Completeness: Only fully completed applications will be considered.