Our Work
Transforming Lives: Research & Impact
ASAP is a global network dedicated to leveraging academic expertise to combat poverty worldwide. Our impact spans multiple continents, disciplines, and initiatives, all united by a common goal: to create meaningful change in the lives of those affected by poverty.
Our Global Reach
ASAP's strength lies in its diverse network of over 18 established and emerging Chapters around the world. We support and connect these Chapters, empowering local academics and researchers to address poverty-related issues specific to their regions.
Research and Projects
Research and Projects
ASAP research projects connect chapter networks, early-career researchers, and public-facing scholarship so evidence can shape institutional reform and poverty policy.
Linking Academics and Researchers
The Global Colleagues project matches early career researchers in the Global South with more senior researchers at well-resourced universities in the Global North or South. Over a year, they form a partnership and develop activities tailored to the research goals of the pairing.
Impact Interviews
Impact Interviews share information and best practices from academic efforts to influence poverty policy and civil society around the world. The series combines interviews and articles that explore how academics achieve positive impact through research, advocacy, and on-the-ground interventions.
Institutional Reform Goals (IRG)
IRG is an ambitious research and advocacy project that aims to reform the global institutions and regulations that perpetuate poverty, with linked focus areas including illicit financial flows, trade, debt, migration, labor standards, and climate change.
Global Health Initiatives
Health Impact Fund (HIF)
Health Impact Fund (HIF) incentivizes the development of new medicines for the global poor.
HIF proposes a new way to pay for the development and delivery of pharmaceutical innovation. Pharmaceutical firms can register new medicines with HIF and agree to provide them at cost anywhere they are needed. Instead of profiting through drug sales, they are rewarded based on the global health impact of their drug.
- Pharmaceutical firms can register new medicines and provide them at cost where they are needed.
- Rewards are tied to measured global health impact rather than drug sales.
- Led by ASAP President Thomas Pogge and economist Aidan Hollis.
For more information, visit healthimpactfund.org.
Global Health Initiatives
Ubuntu Health Impact Fund
Focused on Africa, this initiative supports local pharmaceutical industries and ensures the availability of low-cost medicines, directly impacting healthcare accessibility across the continent.
- Focused on Africa.
- Supports local pharmaceutical industries.
- Works to ensure the availability of low-cost medicines.
Further background is available in the Ubuntu Health Impact Fund proposal.
Journal ASAP
Journal ASAP
Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Journal of ASAP) is an open access international multidisciplinary journal published under the ISSN 2690-3458 (electronic edition) and ISSN 2690-3431 (print edition) by Academics Stand Against Poverty, a non-profit organization based in the United States (EIN # 32-0324998).
Its mission is to publish high-quality work that can make genuine contributions to understanding and eradicating poverty and its effects in the real world.
Journal ASAP is committed to ensuring that perspectives of the poor are adequately represented on its pages and that these pages are accessible to all. The journal makes substantial efforts to include voices from the global South, non-elite educational institutions, and organizations working toward poverty eradication.
- Open access and international in scope.
- Committed to representing perspectives from the global South and non-elite institutions.
- Focused on work that connects poverty analysis with practical eradication efforts.
Journal ASAP also maintains a rigorous double-blind peer review process and invites original submissions that are clear, broadly accessible, and practically useful. Visit the journal website here.
ASAP Awards
Recognizing poverty-focused scholarship and practice
ASAP is proud to manage a portfolio of awards. Each fund we are responsible for has a specific theme or focus. We are immensely grateful to our partners and sponsors for their support, without them this important strand of our work would not be possible.
These awards are part of ASAP's efforts to recognize and promote academic excellence in addressing poverty, aligning with its mission to leverage academic expertise for poverty alleviation.
Award Portfolio
ASAP manages essay prizes, grants, and book awards that recognize work addressing structural poverty, public impact, and new pathways for reform.
Essay Prize
Amartya Sen Prize
Essay Prize
This annual award recognizes outstanding essays examining illicit financial flows, their harmful impacts, and potential reforms, bringing attention to this critical aspect of global poverty.
Grant
Ambedkar Grants for Advancing Poverty Eradication (AGAPE)
India Grant Program
AGAPE supports innovative poverty eradication projects in India, providing funding and resources to pilot new approaches and ideas.
Book Awards
The ASAP Award
ASAP Book Awards
A three-part award that includes the ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award, the ASAP Book of the Year Monograph Award, and the ASAP Book of the Year Anthology Award.
Student Prize
Nelson Mandela Essay Prize Competition
Essay Competition
This prestigious competition invites students and researchers to explore themes of social justice, equality, and poverty eradication, inspired by the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
The ASAP Award
The ASAP Award and its sub-awards
The ASAP Award recognizes constructive work related to poverty and outstanding books on poverty-related subjects through three distinct sub-awards.
The ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals for their constructive work related to poverty.
Historic Projects
While our focus is on current and future initiatives, we're proud of our past projects that have laid the groundwork for our ongoing efforts.
DateOutput
Historic
Global Poverty Consensus Report (GPCR)Historic Report
A joint project of ASAP and CROP designed to highlight academic consensus on the causes and remedies for global poverty.
Historic
Global Climate Change Week (GCCW)Historic Initiative
Encouraged academic engagement with climate change issues across disciplines and countries.
Historic
Know Your Rights India (KYRI)Historic Initiative
Raised awareness about rights, entitlements, and benefits in India.
Join us in Making an Impact
Join us in Making an Impact
Our work is only possible through the dedication of our members and the support of our partners. Whether you're an academic, a student, or simply passionate about fighting poverty, there's a place for you in the ASAP community.
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