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Grant Funding Opportunities By General Research Discipline
BC-BS: Investigator Initiated Research
Award Amount: $75,000
Deadline: LOI due Feb 12, May 28, Oct 23; Applications due Apr. 24, Aug. 7, Jan. 10
Addressing critical gaps in health-related research; Examining factors that may prevent or reduce risk for disease; Examining associations and cause and effect relationships between health variables; Secondary data analysis of large datasets; Health care cost-analysis studies; Robust evaluation projects and feasibility studies to test the implementation of innovative interventions to improve health outcomes.
Michigan Health Endowment Fund: Behavioral Health Initiative Grant Program
Award Amount: $500,000
Deadline: LOI due Mar 25; Apps due May 10
Implementation of innovative care delivery models; Multi-sector responses aimed at developing and strengthening collaboration to support efficient entry to care; Use of innovative technology to improve access to care and/or quality of care; Implementation of team-based approaches to care, including integration at the point of care, sharing health information among providers, and increased provider consultation
Michigan Health Endowment Fund: Community Health Impact
Award Amount: $150,000
Deadline: LOI (Jan 25, Jul 18) Apps due (Feb 29, Aug 22)
Eliminating health disparities, improving health equity, building community wellness, increasing social integration for marginalized populations, bolstering community support systems, and expanding health-related community engagement efforts. Specific topics might include but are not limited to proposals to improve oral health access, health literacy, health-related transportation, or environmental health.
Michigan Health Endowment Fund: Healthy Aging
Award Amount: $500,000
Deadline: August (yearly)
Aging-related health, well-being, and independence programs, partnerships, and models that equip organizations, health care providers, and policy makers to effectively meet the needs we face as we age.
ASHP Foundation: Pharmacy Leadership Scholars Research Grant
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline: February 29
Early-stage pharmacists for specific DEI research projects and are not intended for long-term support of research programs.
ASHP Foundation: Collaborative Care Grant for Nurses and Pharmacists
Award Amount: $75,000
Deadline: December 10
Patient-centered projects to decrease patient harm; increase patient involvement in care; improve care transitions; reduce hospital admissions; improve quality of life; and optimize resource utilization for patients with multiple co-morbidities. Research that includes an aim and outcomes to support creating a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable healthcare system. Preference for projects that include measurement of team-based care or team-functioning, as well as problem-specific measures.
ASHP Foundation: Optimizing Technology Solutions
Award Amount: $30,000
Deadline: January 30
Priority will be given to demonstration projects in health services delivery that are innovations and measure outcomes, including: Enhanced effectiveness of care, improved outcomes for patients, clinicians, and organizations
Community Pharmacy Foundation
Award Amount: $40,000
Deadline: Pre-App due: Feb, May, Aug, Nov (prior to board meetings)
Advancing community pharmacy; patient care best practices, health care delivery models, provider status, future practice.
ACCP Foundation: Futures Grant
Award Amount: $40,000
Deadline: September 1
Fellows in training & junior investigators: mentored research awards designed to provide support for the development of research skills among fellows and early-career ACCP members with a goal of establishing sustained interest and careers in pharmacy research.
ACCP Foundation: Medication Optimization Improving Human Health
Award Amount: $100,000
Deadline: LOI due July 14, Application due October 31
Team-based research improving the efficiency, reach (e.g., primary or non-primary care settings), and clinical impact of existing medication optimization services or approaches; Research that informs the expeditious adoption, scaling, sustained implementation, and continuous quality improvement of evidence-based medication optimization services or approaches; Research to establish evidence for novel approaches to facilitate medication optimization; Research on innovative service delivery models to reduce or eliminate known health disparities related to race, ethnicity, geography, sexual and gender minority status and/or socioeconomic status, to dramatically improve outcomes in understudied populations in diverse United States and global communities, and to ensure high value medication optimization services or approaches are readily accessible to those in need; Research to evaluate the public health impact of medication optimization services or approaches using large representative data sets and novel computational approaches.
APha Foundation: Academy Research Grants
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline: August 15
Applications with special emphasis on practice-based research proposals addressing any of following focus areas: Pharmacy Deserts and Patient Access; Social Determinants of Health; Cardiometabolic Disease; Pharmacy Workplace and Workflow; Patient Care Service Implementation
APhA Foundation: Incentive Grants
Award Amount: $1,000
Deadline: September 12
Award for residents and preceptors; A project proposal with any community/ambulatory-pharmacy based practice innovation is acceptable.
Michigan Pharmacy Foundation Grants
Award Amount: $25,000
Deadline: October 1
Projects that promote the mission of MPF in the state to foster the future of pharmacy as one profession, maximizing health and wellness.
NIH R15 Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP)
Award Amount: $300,000 direct costs (over 2-3 yrs)
Deadline: Feb 25, Jun 25, Oct 25 (New and renewals)
The goals of the R15 are to: support meritorious research, expose students to research, and strengthen the research environment of the institution. See RFA for institutes and funding priorities. PI must have a primary appointment in a health professional or graduate school at a REAP-eligible institution.
PhRMA Foundation: Faculty STarter Grants
Award Amount: $100,000
Deadline: LOI due May 1, Aug 29 application due if invited
Starter Grant focus areas: Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery, Translational Medicine, Value Assessment and Health Outcomes Research
BC-BS: Investigator Initiated Research
Award Amount: $75,000
Deadline: LOI (Feb. 12, May. 28, Oct. 23) Apps due (Apr. 24, Aug. 7, Jan. 10)
Addressing critical gaps in health-related research; Examining factors that may prevent or reduce risk for disease; Examining associations and cause and effect relationships between health variables; Secondary data analysis of large datasets; Health care cost-analysis studies; Robust evaluation projects and feasibility studies to test the implementation of innovative interventions to improve health outcomes.
PhRMA Foundation: Challenge Award
Award Amount: $25,000
Deadline: Nov. 1
Addressing Unanswered Questions in Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
PhRMA Foundation: Frontier Award in Value Assessment
Award Amount: $500,000 (2 awards per yr)
Deadline: Aug. 1
Research applying patient-centered value assessment models to help guide health care decision-making (Special Funding Opportunity)
PhRMA Foundation: Research on Digital Health Tools
Award Amount: $25,000 - $500,000
Deadline: LOI (Sept. 29), Mar 14 by invitation
Planning Grants ($25,000) – Up to 8 awards
Research Grants ($500,000) – Up to 2 awards
The program aims to support research that will: Develop, evaluate, and/or implement
DHTs for use in clinical trials in diverse populations to improve participation. Assess
use cases where DHTs are appropriate and where they may disadvantage a particular
population. Demonstrate verification, validation, and/or qualification of DHTs to
measure and/or capture data across diverse populations
AACP Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)
Award Amount: $4,000
Deadline: Jan. 4 each year
