UW’s Population Health Initiative Announces Covid 19 Rapid Response Grants
Posted: 4/7/2020 (Funding)
The Population Health Initiative has launched a COVID-19 rapid response grant program to support the University of Washington research community in quickly responding to the vast array of population health-related challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Awards of up to $20,000 each are available. The initiative will fund at least five grants, with one of the awards supported by the university’s Office of Global Affairs. The period of performance for these awards is four months. Applications are due on April 16, 2020. The purpose of this funding call is to rapidly accelerate, or jumpstart, novel research designed to better understand or mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on multiple facets of life. The call is broad in scope, and applications can propose interventions in areas including, but not limited to, the following:
- Basic research/understanding the fundamental mechanisms of the virus
- Basic research on population dynamics and social contexts influencing infection spread and containment
- Diagnostics
- Treatments
- Approaches to rapidly scaling production of personal protective or essential equipment like ventilators
- Preparing for effective mass immunization once a vaccine becomes available
- Economic and social impacts and recovery approaches, including addressing issues of equity
- Mental health impacts
- Risk communications/flow of information/impact of communicating interventions like social distancing/other communication
Project ideas can be proposed that will either (1) quickly bring to bear new knowledge, or (2) that will allow work on a larger, longer-term project to begin immediately as the project team continues to seek the necessary external funding for the bigger component.
Applicants are encouraged to propose projects involving interdisciplinary collaborations as the initiative views such partnerships as being critical to improving health and well-being.
Deadline: 04/16/2020