Funder: Institute of Translational Health Sciences
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Letter of Intent) | October 2027 (Full application)
Funding Amounts: Up to $50,000 in total costs for up to one year
Summary: Supports community–academic partnerships that generate or implement healthcare evidence addressing community-identified health needs.
Key Information: A faculty Contact PI and community partner are required; all principal and co-investigators must be ITHS members.
Description
The Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) offers Community–Academic Partnership awards to jump-start new biomedical and biobehavioral research partnerships. Community organizations help initiate, organize, and lead projects addressing health needs they identify in the communities they serve. Projects may reduce barriers to bringing clinical studies into communities, improve uptake of evidence-based interventions in community or community clinical settings, or combine evidence generation and implementation.
Priorities include innovative study designs that reduce participant burden, real-time wearable data, technologies supporting remote research or clinical care, and implementation science addressing barriers and facilitators to care. ITHS seeks generalizable, scalable approaches that improve community health beyond the participating organizations and support future external funding.
