Who is eligible to apply? 

Open to Stanford faculty with PI eligibility (with UTL, MCL, NTLR faculty appointments) and Clinical Educator (CE) faculty with an approved PI waiver.
Clinical instructors, instructors, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars (clinical and non-clinical) may serve as co-PI or co-investigator, but are required to include a PI-eligible faculty member as lead PI on the application.

When is the application due? 

Proposals are due Friday, October 14th, 2022, 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

When would project funding start? 

Grand Challenge awards will be granted for 2 years and up to $100,000. The award period is March 1, 2023 - February 28, 2025.

Seed grant awards will be granted for 1 year and up to $40,000. The award period is March 1, 2023 - February 29, 2024.

What do you mean by longitudinal health impacts? 

Projects that go beyond describing the current situation. Those that attempt to evaulate and assess between specific factors and the outcomes of interest, certainly causal inference methods that allow you to get towards causal inference, even in the absence of, for example, of quasi-experimental design, are very much of interest. We are really looking beyond descriptive data.

Should prospective applicants prioritize consortium members and key stakeholders, Or can we levrage the existing partnership in the ground? 

We absolutely encourage you to leverage existing partnerships on the ground and hopefully grow and deepen those partnerships through this opportunity.

Do we have to use community based participatory methods?

It is not required however we do expect awardees to present their results of their study to the San Joaquin Valley consortium and the project should be responsive to their interests.

Is there a direct contact for the San Joaquin Valley consortium for potential collaboration?

We at PHS are happy to facilitate, please contact Lesley Sept at stanpohealth@stanford.edu.

Track 2: Cancer Health Equity Seed Grants Will projects that use datasets and focus on the SJ valley be prioritized? Our project looks at reducing melanoma disparity using community health workers and will be focussed within this area?

Yes. SJV has a large catchment area and the Stanford Cancer Center is very interested in strategies that have the potential to have poor portability across different communities. Melanoma disparities contribute to disparities in cancer, and are particular interest in many of our communities, and the engagement of health workers.

Is there a website that describes the data applicants can access through PHS? Specifically local data from the San Joaquin Valley.

All PHS hosted datasets can be viewed at phsdata.stanford.edu. To request direct access for American Family Cohort (AFC) and Medicaid, register on the portal using your SUNet ID stem email and complete requirements. Please contact the Data Core at phsdatacore@stanford.edu.