2020 Stanford Global Health Seed Grants - Call for Proposals

Eligibility:

1. Stanford faculty with PI eligibility [tenure line (UTL), medical center line (MCL) or research (NTLR) faculty appointments] may submit proposals.  Clinical Educators (CE) at the rank of clinical assistant professor and above who are full-time Stanford employees with 100% CE faculty appointments are eligible.  Post-doctoral fellows may be included as co-PIs. 
2. In the case of grants funded by the Stanford Maternal and Child Research Institute:  All faculty (UTL, MCL, NTLT, NTLR, CE, instructors), postdoctoral scholars/fellows, clinical trainees, and research scientists/scholars (senior or regular).  Clinical trainees, postdoctoral scholars/fellows, and regular (not senior) research scientists/scholars must identify a faculty mentor.  Applicants must have a focus on maternal child health research (Eligible: all areas of research related to child health: basic, translational, clinical research, epidemiology/statistics, informatics, health services, and health policy).
3. There is a strong preference for teams that include investigators who use different methodologies or approaches and preferably work in different disciplines.
4. Projects that create new interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged, as are those including fellows, post-docs, students, and/or staff.  Teams may include investigators in partner institutions in low- or middle-income countries or underserved settings in the US.  Teams may also partner with nonprofit organizations, industry or government officials. 

* You do not have to prepare a PIF, a PDRF form or work with your institutional representative (RPM or OSR)

Selection Criteria:

The Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health will review proposals based on:

• Scientific merit of the proposal, with quality, innovation and creativity balanced by likelihood of success.
• Broadly interdisciplinary:  How will the team's collaborative effort be stronger than the sum of its parts?
• Proposed projects should address health issues faced by vulnerable populations.
• Proposed projects should explicitly build capacity with international partners:  What skills or other benefits will result for Stanford's partner institutions?
• They should make a persuasive case that results would catalyze further funding from external sources.
• Engaging disciplines outside traditional biomedical fields (e.g. law, education, business, public policy) is encouraged.

Budget Guidelines:

Award amounts are based on analysis of a detailed budget request.

• Funds may be used for salary support of faculty, graduate students and other research staff.
• Operating supplies, minor equipment items, prototyping expenses, imaging time, and travel directly associated with the research activity are examples of eligible budget items.
• The grants will not support general staff, administrative support, tuition, or attendance at meetings.
• No indirect charges need be included in your budget.
   

Submission Guidelines:

• All documents should be in pdf format, single-spaced, in Arial 11-point font, with one-inch margins.
• Submissions must not exceed 3 pages, exclusive of cover page, citations, budget and biographical information.

           Each proposal must include:

• 1.  Cover page
  • a.  Project Title
  • b.  One-paragraph project summary
  • c.  For each team member:  name, email, professional title, department and school affiliation(s)
• 2.  Proposal
  • a.  Introduction
  • b.  Specific aims
  • c.  Preliminary data (if available)
  • d.  Proposed project design and methods
  • e.  Collaboration plan (how will the multidisciplinary team work together)
  • f.  Description of potential for impact and follow-on funding
• 3.  Supporting material
  • a.  Literature cited
  • b.  Budget
  • c.  Short (150 words max) bio-sketches for team members and recent CV (no more than 2 pages) for PI's

Proposals are due on  Friday, November 22, 2019  at  5:00 PM PDT.

Questions? Contact:  S. Jill Mueller:  sjillmueller@stanford.edu