Research

New Investigator Awards Guidelines

Purpose: To assist newly-appointed primary (or joint) CPH or CCOM faculty advance their research activities.

Eligibility: The principal investigator/applicant must be a tenure-track or clinical-track primary CPH or CCOM faculty member at the rank of faculty associate or assistant professor. To be eligible, the principal investigator's first CPH or CCOM faculty appointment to either of these ranks must have been no earlier than July 1, 2009. Recipients of this award in previous years are not eligible.

Awards: It is anticipated that up to two awards with funding of $10,000 each will be made.

Criteria:

  1. Scientific merit, including originality
  2. Relevance to UI public health mission
  3. Likelihood of subsequent extramural funding

Deadline: Applications are due by 4:00 p.m. Friday, January 6, 2012.

Applications: All applications must be completed online and submitted using the online application form.

Budget: Awards will be made for the 2012 calendar year. It is required that awarded funds be utilized within this time period. Funds not utilized by December 31, 2012 will revert to the originating collegiate research account. Funds awarded may not be used for faculty salaries. Up to $1,000 of approved funds may be used to provide travel for the P.I. to present research results at a national meeting. A portion of the project funds can be used for local travel for research activities, e.g. data collection efforts in the state. No other travel expenses are permitted.

Final Report:

  1. A brief final written report must be submitted to the CPH Research Office by February 1, 2013.  The brief report will consist of approximately three pages to include the following:

    A.      Statement of aims and rationale for the project
    B.      Description of the activities that were conducted and major findings
    C.      A brief (5 or so sentences) description of the project suitable for a lay audience

  2. A.      Publications, presentations or other dissemination activities (i.e. community
               meetings,  press release, policy brief, etc.)
    B.      Summary of how funds were used
    C.      Future direction of the project

  3. Award recipients are required to present a seminar to the CPH faculty in the spring of 2013 (usually during the open forum).  Arrangements for the presentation will be made in coordination with the Research Administration office. 

  4. Award recipients are strongly encouraged to submit a poster during the CCOM-CPH-VA Research Week in April 2013.

  5.  Award recipients will be recognized at the CPH Awards Banquet in the year the award is received (May 2012).

Evaluation: An ad-hoc CPH committee will review and rank applications by evaluating the project's significance, research plan, relationship to CPH mission, and likelihood of subsequent extramural research funding.