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 Awardees
Tyler G. James, Ph.D., M.S.,
Misclassification Bias in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Patient Cohort Development
Terrence Liu, M.D., M.S.,
Utilization of Patient Portal Messaging in Managing Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study
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
2024 applications have closed. Applications for 2025 will open in spring 2025.
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:
- 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:
- A statement (no more than 1,000 words) describing how you envision being an active participant in the IHPI community. Please include examples of how you have been engaged with IHPI and how you will continue to be engaged.
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.