PHRC Grants

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 Public Health COLLABORATION Grants:  From Ideas to Impact

Public Health Research Center (PHRC), CAHSS,  University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Overview

 What happens when faculty from different disciplines/fields come together to explore public health? The Public Health Collaboration Grants are designed to find out! This new opportunity for summer 2025 invites all full-time CAHSS faculty from the social sciences, humanities, and arts disciplines to explore unexpected ways their interdisciplinary expertise connects to develop public health research ideas. As part of this initiative, applicants will propose a team of two to four CAHSS faculty who will collaboratively submit an externally funded public health grant.  Participating faculty will receive summer stipends.  Faculty with ongoing health research ideas, as well as those with absolutely no prior health research experience are welcome to participate.  Need help identifying collaborators?  Just contact us: PHRC@umbc.edu

Grant Submission Procedures:  Public Health Collaboration Grants

Due Date:  Friday April 18, 2025

Submit Application to:  PHRC@umbc.edu

Eligibility

All full-time CAHSS faculty members are eligible to participate in these collaborative teams and grant submission.

 Application Process

  1. Cover Page listing: collaborating faculty names, department affiliations, email.
  2. Proposal: A 2-page project summary (Single-spaced) outlining aims, methods, expected outcomes, and public health connection. Projects may range from the idea to grant phase to re-submissions of grant applications.
  3. Specify your intended external grant opportunities & submission timeline. External grant submission should be by December 31, 2025.
  4. Current CV for each faculty collaborator.

 

Evaluation Criteria

The goal of the PHRC Public Health Collaboration Grant Program is to increase the number of collaboratively submitted CAHSS grants.  Thus, the major criteria are:

  1. Faculty collaborators, with priority for cross-field or cross-department collaborations
  2. Clarity of grant proposal description
  3. Readiness to submit external grant proposal by December 31, 2025

Awards

This program provides summer stipends to faculty teams who will begin work in the summer funding period to collaboratively develop and submit a proposal to an external funding source by December 31, 2025.  Faculty stipends are awarded based on team size: $5,000 per person for two-person teams; $3,333 per person for three-person teams; and, $2,500 per person for four-person teams.  Funding will be disbursed at the end of the summer based on demonstrated progress toward the grant submission goal.  Funding is limited to the faculty summer stipend.

Note:  Faculty who have received other UMBC internal grants must demonstrate that the Collaboration Grant project is distinct and does not duplicate previously funded work.