The Global Partnerships & Grand Challenges Team announced a new grant opportunity, with applications due no later than June 16, 2026, at 11:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time. Estimating the Global Burden of Diarrheal Diseases: Reliable burden estimates are essential for guiding investments in prevention, treatment, and product development. However, estimating diarrheal mortality, morbidity, and pathogen-specific burden remains challenging for a number of reasons. Through this RFP, the Gates Foundation seeks to support independent estimation efforts that inform the overall burden of diarrhea and pathogen-specific contributions, clarify key sources of uncertainty, and produce decision-useful estimates for policymakers, researchers, and global health partners.

Please refer to the RFP for full details on scope and eligibility. We will also host a dedicated webinar on May 14, 2026, from 8:00–9:00 a.m. PT, featuring an overview of the opportunity and time for Q&A. Please register to attend, and submit your questions ahead of the session. A recording will be posted on the challenge page following the session for those unable to join live.

People who have contact with the criminal justice system experience disproportionate social and health disadvantage both prior to and following their justice involvement, compared to the broader community. Achieving equity in areas such as health, housing, and education among people with justice system involvement should be a global priority. Simultaneously, the need to reduce offending and recidivism is central to improving public safety, strengthening justice system legitimacy, and reducing future victimisation.

Across jurisdictions worldwide, criminal justice policy is frequently shaped by political considerations rather than rigorous empirical evidence. Growing availability of population-based administrative data sources (including linkages across sectors) allow researchers the opportunity to generate actionable evidence that can improve not only health, wellbeing, and social outcomes for people with justice system contact, but also justice-related outcomes including recidivism, victimisation patterns, and other crime and public safety measurements.

This Focus Issue will provide a platform for high-quality research with the broad aims to:

1. Reduce social and health inequities, as well as improve outcomes, for people with current, past, or potential future justice system involvement including outcomes directly related to crime, victimisation and justice system performance.
2. Improve community safety, reduce recidivism, and strengthen the fairness, effectiveness, and legitimacy of criminal justice responses.

All manuscripts that align with these aims and sit within the scope of the journal are welcome. We encourage empirical and methodological research as well as reviews. We are especially interested in manuscripts which use multi-sectoral data linkage (e.g. corrections, law enforcement, courts, probation/community corrections, health, housing, education, child protection, social services, employment) to address health and social inequalities as well as key crime and justice outcomes such as reoffending, desistance, victimisation, procedural justice, diversion effectiveness, supervision outcomes, or system-level decision making.

Ensuring we showcase a diversity of perspectives is critical to appropriately achieve the aims of this issue. To do so, we encourage submissions from researchers who:

• Are, or work with, people with lived/living experience of the criminal justice system.
• Represent a broad range of disciplines including criminology, public health, psychology, epidemiology, law, economics, and other social and health science disciplines.
• Engage directly with criminal justice policy, reform, system performance, or interventions aimed at reducing crime and harm.
• Are located in low- and middle-income countries.

Submission Deadline: 30^th October 2026

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