Presented by the ASAHP Research, Discovery, and Innovation Committee

2024 Call for Proposals


WHO IS ELIGIBLE: The Principal Investigator (PI) must be a full-time faculty in an ASAHP member institution. Applicants may serve as PI on only one grant application. Only one application may be submitted per ASAHP Member Institution.

AWARD AMOUNT: We expect to fund 2-3 awards up to $30,000 per award

GRANT PERIOD: September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 3, 2024

Goal: To support innovative research projects with the highest potential to produce new knowledge and paradigms towards success in interprofessional collaboration. Projects should involve at least two and preferably more health professions. The most competitive applications will be designed as scalable projects with potential outcomes which can be broadly applied and implemented by ASAHP member institutions. 


Eligibility: The Principal Investigator (PI) must be a full-time faculty in an ASAHP member institution. Applicants may serve as PI on only one grant application. Only one application may be submitted per ASAHP Member Institution.


Award: 2-3 grant(s) may be awarded up to $30,000 per award. Awards will be provided for one year of support. The number of grants and grant amount awarded will ultimately depend on the quality, potential outcome(s) and total cost. Funds cannot be used for indirect costs or F&A. Grant funds may be used for ASAHP Annual Conference travel and registration but may not exceed $2,000. Conference travel and registration funding would be included in the total proposal budget. 


Deadline: Applications must be received via electronic submission to the Association of School Advancing Health Professions by 8:00pm ET on May 3, 2024. Proposals received by the deadline will be reviewed by a committee of educational researchers. Decisions will be sent out in late July 2024.


Proposal (criteria & guidelines): Applications that do not follow these guidelines will not be reviewed. Proposals that include two or more ASAHP member institutions are acceptable. Proposals should not exceed five (5) pages and should be organized as follows:

  1. Background & significance: Include a testable hypothesis and/or the theoretical framework or conceptual model to be utilized. Concisely state the research problem to be addressed.

  2. Research plan: Outline the specific aims of the proposed research, the experimental approaches to be taken, data analyses, and expected outcomes. Note: Preliminary data are not requisite, but could be used to strengthen a proposal.

  3. Milestones: List two to three specific milestones to be accomplished by the end of the 12-month funding period (September 1, 2024 - August 30, 2025)

  4. PI assurance: Include a statement from the PI that they have sufficient time and local support and will make the funded study a high priority, pursue it aggressively, and only use the funds for the proposed research.

  5. Interprofessional team: Provide a description of the interprofessional team, including the role of each faculty team member and how the team will collaborate on the project.


Budget & References

  1. Budget: provide itemized budget with brief justification (limited to one to two sentences) for each item. Funds cannot be used for faculty salary support but can provide funding for technical support personnel.

  2. References.

Letter of Support

  • Letter of Support from the Department/Program Chair/Directors with key personnel involved in the project signed by the Dean of the School. Availability of PI research time and effort must be included in the letter.

Biographical Sketch for PI and Key Personnel

Submission Criteria:
Submit grant applications electronically as PDFs in the following order using this online portal:

  • Proposal (limited to 5 pages for items 1-5) formatted in Arial 11-point font with 0.75 margins

  • Budget

  • References

  • Letter of Support signed by the Dean of the School

  • PI and key personnel biographical sketch(s) in NIH biographical sketch format limited to 5 pages per person


Post-Award Requirements

Awardees will be asked to provide a project summary (limited to 200 words) in lay terms for public dissemination. All projects are expected to be initiated and finalized in a timely fashion. Awardees will provide a mid-year, one-page progress report to the ASAHP Research Committee in December 2024. A template will be provided.

At the end of the one-year project term, awardees will provide a one-page report by November 15, 2024, to the ASAHP Research, Discovery, and Innovation Committee indicating results obtained and plans or progress toward obtaining external funding. Awardees will also be asked to present their findings at the 2025 ASAHP Annual Conference and its anticipated research findings would be published in the Journal of Allied Health.

No-cost extensions, up to three months, are only granted under extraordinary circumstances and a formal request must be written to the IP grant subcommittee, including the rationale and a new proposed timeline. The researcher will still be expected to present at the 2025 ASAHP Annual Conference if granted a no-cost extension.

Please contact Kristen Truong at kristen@asahp.org if you have questions or would like more information.

Frequently asked questions

What are considered health professions?
The definition of health professions can be found here. For the purposes of this application, the health professions refers to professions except for MOD-VOPP (medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy).

What determines eligibility of an interprofessional team?
An interprofessional team includes one or more faculty team members from at least two different health professions. For example, one team member could be from occupational therapy and another from audiology. A team with both members from occupational therapy would not be eligible.

Do I have to include all $30,000 in my grant proposal?
Two to three grants will be awarded up to $30,000. Your budget proposal can be up to $30,000.

Do I have to be an ASAHP member to apply?
Yes, only faculty at ASAHP member institutions are eligible to apply and only one application may be submitted per member institution.

How is the Interprofessional Collaboration Grant different than ASAHP's Interprofessional Innovation Grant (IIG)?
ASAHP's Interprofessional Innovation Grant (IIG) Program supports pilot programs and provides recipients a competitive edge in securing additional funding by supporting pilot projects and further developing grantsmanship skill sets. IIG grants are up to $2,000. The Interprofessional Collaboration Grant program supports innovative research projects with awards up to $30,000.