Clinician Educator Grants

The Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) partners with the Quantitative Sciences Unit (QSU) in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University to provide comprehensive biostatistics and data management support for research that is directly related to maternal and child health.

Reserve your 1-hour consultation here.
Consultation appointments are available on:
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Friday, February 18, 2022

MCHRI members who are planning to apply to the MCHRI Clinical Educator Grants may sign up for a free one-hour, one-on-one consultation with a data scientist. Reserve your 1-hour consultation at the registration link above. Please include the title and brief description of your proposal when completing your registration form. 

The Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you after registration. If you are unable to make it, please cancel your registration so others may have the opportunity to sign up.

The performance period is 12 months and the project proposed must be feasible within this timeframe.

FY22 Spring MCHRI CE Grant Instructions

FY22 Spring MCHRI CE RFA

FY22 Spring MCHRI CE Policy

FY22 Spring MCHRI CE Grant Application Facepage and Checklist

FY22 Spring MCHRI CE Budget

Up to $35,000 for one year

• All Clinician Educators (CE) at the rank of Clinical Instructor or above can apply
• All applicants must have or plan on having a focus on maternal child health research, or wish to expand their interest in maternal child health research
• A Primary Research Mentor is required for Clinical Instructors & Clinical Assistant Professors.
• All applicants must continue to be appointed at the Clinical Instructor rank or above for the duration of the award, including any extensions.
• A Mentor Support Form is required from the Primary Research Mentor for Clinical Instructors & Clinical Assistant Professors. Upon creation of an Online Application Record by the applicant (we encourage applicants to create a record at least 4 weeks prior to submission deadline), the Primary Research Mentor will receive an automated email with a unique link to complete the Mentor Support Form. For further instructions on the Mentor Support Form, please go here.
• The applicant and mentor are required to be MCHRI Members to apply for this grant. The mentor should be at the Associate Professor or Professor rank.
• A primary research mentor is not required for Associate Professor and Professor ranks. The Mentor Support Form is optional. However, if you select ‘yes’ when submitting your Online Application Record and choose to designate a primary research mentor, your mentor will be required to submit the Mentor Support Form.
• Projects must be novel to the field (i.e., not previously described in literature) but can be a continuation or expansion of the investigator’s current research.

Visit the Clinician Educator Awards page.

If the project is not completed within 12 months due to unforeseen circumstances, a no-cost extension (NCX) of up to 6 additional months may be requested (total study period not to exceed 18 months). Please complete a No-Cost Extension Request Form. 

Visit Policy Updates for more information.

Visit Frequently Asked Questions for more information.

Please contact MCHRI Administration at mchri_admin@stanford.edu or 650-724-0279 with any questions.