Mercury Project Findings: Knowledge Versus Skills

About this program

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) offers research grants to support studies evaluating interventions aimed at improving health behaviors and vaccination uptake globally, as demonstrated by the Mercury Project’s Knowledge Versus Skills experiment in Sierra Leone. This initiative compares the effectiveness of domain-specific vaccine knowledge versus teaching heuristics for evaluating health information credibility. Eligibility criteria are not specified, suggesting the opportunity may be open to a broad range of researchers and institutions. Applicants should focus on designing scalable, brief interventions with measurable impacts on health information evaluation and behavior.