Funding

Internal Funding Opportunities

2024-2025 Request for Applications: Dissemination & Implementation Science Pilot Projects

Program Overview: The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Medicine (DOM) Implementation Science Research Program in collaboration with the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), Center for Outcomes & Effectiveness Research & Education (COERE), Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity Center (CAMBAC), and the Forge AHEAD Center invite applications for enterprise-wide dissemination and implementation (D&I) science pilot projects. D&I science broadly seeks to improve how evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies are disseminated, implemented, and maintained in real-world settings. Pilot projects should focus on data collection or data analysis in any area of research related to D&I science. Pilot funding is intended to provide initial project support for new investigators, allow exploration of possible innovative new directions for established investigators in D&I science that is different or distinct from ongoing funded research, and encourage investigators from other areas to use their expertise for D&I science. 

Research Focus: The pilot projects should: 1) ask D&I research questions, 2) use a D&I science framework to guide the research, and 3) employ appropriate research designs and/or methods. Priority will be given to applications that demonstrate likelihood of future R01 (or equivalent) funding.