CHAS Programs
Seed Grant Program
The Seed-Grant Program
Beginning in 2005, CHAS as supported an annual Seed-Grant Program to support promising projects that address the core mission of CHAS. In each year of operation, CHAS has available roughly $70,000 to fund projects and we like to fund from seven to ten projects from our funding pool. The Seed-Grant Program does not provide funding for indirect costs recovery, all direct costs are covered.
Projects re expected to be conducted over 12 months beginning in May 2007. Applications will be due March 16, 2007.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are welcomed from any tenure-track investigator or co-investigators affiliated with the University of Chicago at any academic rank. Although the lead investigator must be affiliated with the University, consultants may be drawn from other institutions. Priority is given to junior investigators and to those lacking other seed-grant support from the University of Chicago.
Application Process
Applications must be received at the contact email address (lwoynaro@uchicago.edu) by March 16, 2007. Applications must be submitted in electronic form. A Microsoft Word version of the form is attached to this email and may also be downloaded at: HERE
The applications will be reviewed by a panel appointed by the CHAS Director that will consist of senior faculty at the University of Chicago and investigators at other institutions with pertinent expertise. Each proposal will be reviewed by at least two scholars with pertinent expertise. Anonymous reviews will be made avalable to all applicants. Awards will be announced April 2, 2007.
Review Criteria
Applications will be rated based on: scientific merit, feasiblity of the research plan in the time allotted, importance of the research question, originality, the contribution of seed funding to the pursuit of additional funding, and the relevance to core goals of CHAS.
Reviewers will be asked to give priority to projects that:
- Develop innovative areas of inquiry.
- Facilitate research of junior investigators and trainees.
- Increase the involvement of established faculty who have worked outside traditional health areas.
- Provide novel sources of primary data or the collection of pilot data.
- The cost and economy of the proposed project will also be considered.
IRB approval will not be required for the application or preliminary approval, but not project will recieve funding until IRB approval has been demonstrated.
Questions should be addressed to: lwoynaro@uchicago.edu
CHAS Michael M. Davis Seminar Series
CHAS is proud to sponsor the Michael M. Davis Seminar Series on "Health and Vulnerable Populations." The career of Michael M. Davis spanned almost fifty years in many areas of medical sociology and health administration. Davis' early years included the establishment of the first "pay clinics" in the United States in 1913, to meet the needs of the working population of Boston, MA. See Alice Sardell "The U.S. Experiment in Social Medicine: The Community Health Center Program 1965-1986 " (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), 39-46, for an excellent description of these formative years.
We, at the University of Chicago are fortunate to have had Dr. Davis as a founder of our Graduate Program of Health Administration Studies in 1934. We are proud to carry on the spirit of his early work with vulnerable populations with this seminar series.
The Davis seminar series hosts speakers from a mix of researchers, local and external, and over a broad range of many disciplines. Examples include:
- Social psychologists developing new strategies for HIV prevention.
- Health economists examining the link between Medicaid policies and birth outcomes.
- Political scientists studying inclusive, participatory decision making models to determine whether disadvantaged populations can effectively voice their health care preferences.
- Medical historians studying the emergence of EMTALA to shed light on current American understandings regarding the “right to health care.”
- Demographers examining the impact of welfare reform on maternal health.
- Social work researchers examining outreach strategies to serve severely mentally ill homeless persons”.
2007-2008 Michael M. Davis Seminar Series
2006-2007 Michael M. Davis Seminar Series
