Through a generous philanthropic gift from Lew Sandy and Sue Hassmiller, IHPI is able to offer the Sandy-Hassmiller Early Career Health Services Research Award.
2024 applications are due by 5:00 pm on Friday, July 12, 2024
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This competitive research award is designed to provide seed funding for IHPI early career faculty members to help catalyze new research or support new innovations in ongoing research.
Application Process:
Applicants must submit a proposal through Competition Space that includes:
- Written summary of the proposed project (maximum of 3 pages including citations) including:
- A statement that answers the following question: Is this a new project idea or supplemental to an already funded grant?
- An explanation of how receiving this award will help to advance your work and support you in becoming an independent researcher.
- One year project timeline; please list project start date as October 1 (maximum of 1 page)
- Budget and budget justification (maximum of 2 pages)
- IHPI Engagement Statement
Funding Details:
Funding of up to $10,000 is available per project.
Funds are intended to cover direct project costs (e.g., data purchases, salary support for administrative staff, and/or research assistants/analysts) and cannot be used toward faculty effort and/or conference or manuscript fees.
Faculty Eligibility and Criteria:
- IHPI early career faculty members
- Early career faculty are defined as: Assistant Professor, Research Assistant Professor, Assistant Research Scientist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Research Investigator, Clinical Instructor, and Clinical Lecturer.
- Applicants from the National Clinician Scholars Program must include a letter from their department chair indicating that they will be able to conduct their proposed research at the University of Michigan
- Projects must be health services research focused and have a defined “next step,” such as utilizing pilot project data/results to support a K-award, R01, or equivalent funding proposal.
- Preference given to multidisciplinary research teams with members from across campus and research projects that address health equity.
Questions? Contact Jodie Moore.
2023 Awardees
- Melissa Elafros, M.D., Ph.D., M.A., Identifying Provider-Level Barriers and Facilitators to the Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Neuropathy
- Cathryn Lapedis, M.D., M.P.H., Comparative Effectiveness of Patient-Centered Prostate Cancer Report Versus Standard Pathology Reports, in a Diverse Web Sample of Older Adults with Prostates
2022 Awardees
- Debbie Chen, M.D., Real-World Use of Systemic Therapies for Patients with Advanced Thyroid Cancer
- Olivia Killeen, M.D., Improving Pediatric Primary Care Vision Screening to Decrease Avoidable Blindness