A Joint CCEB/LDI/CPHI Call for Proposals: March 1 |
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February 25, 2014, Volume 60, No. 24 |
Seeking innovative new directions in collaborative, interdisciplinary research on the health of populations.
The Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB), the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) and the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI) are jointly issuing this call for proposals for a symposium or retreat to seed a sustainable and thriving new line of research at Penn. A total of $25,000 is available in the first year for awards to support the development of an interdisciplinary research program aimed at improving the health of populations. We hope to fund up to two or three programs this year.
There is a wealth of talented faculty across Penn’s campus working to tackle the most complex health and healthcare issues of our day through improvements in health promotion, the treatment of disease or the structure of the healthcare system. We seek to foster interdisciplinary collaborations that combine the strengths of each of our organizations in order to achieve greater impact on the health of the public. In articulating Penn’s commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and research, President Amy Gutmann notes that “the most challenging problems cannot be addressed by one discipline or profession.” We believe this call is consistent with this vision.
Note that these funds are not intended to replace extramural funding, but to position the research program optimally for extramural funding. In this spirit, in order to promote the sustained development of the new research program initiated by this first award, follow-up funds of up to $50,000 may be made available to awardees who successfully achieve the aims of their initial award. We hope to reissue this call annually in order to continually seed one or more new programs a year.
To apply see, http://tinyurl.com/npeb6aj
Applications must be received by March 1. Funding will be announced March 24, 2014.
For additional information, contact any of the following:
—Daniel Polsky, (polsky@wharton.upenn.edu),
—Harold Feldman, (hfeldman@mail.med.upenn.edu),
—Jennifer Pinto-Martin, (pinto@nursing.upenn.edu) or
—Karen Glanz, (kglanz@upenn.edu)
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