The Donaghue Program for Research Leadership
A New Grant Program from the Donaghue Foundation
The Donaghue Program for Research Leadership is a Connecticut-focused grant program that will support transdisciplinary teams of health researchers led by a senior investigator who has demonstrated leadership in innovative and useful health research and in transferring knowledge gained from research into clinical and/or public health practice. The overall goal of the program is to fund rigorous health research while creating opportunities for team members to learn or demonstrate new approaches to translating knowledge from research. Therefore, the grant project must contain the following three components:
- Research
- Knowledge Uptake (a Donaghue term that is defined as those processes and factors by which evidence derived from research makes its way into use to improve health)
- Team Building
This program was established to reinforce the Foundation's mission to support research of practical benefit and to advance the uptake of research into practice, as well as, develop and expand knowledge uptake expertise among health researchers through a team model.
Areas of Research
This program will fund research that has the potential for making a direct, near term impact on improving public health, clinical practice or community health interventions, and must be related to one of the following areas
- prevention and/or treatment of chronic and/or acute illness or injury;
- factors that influence the adoption of clinical and/or outcomes research to broader use;
- the impact that health care services and/or health care delivery and/or public health initiatives have on health
The Donaghue Program for Research Leadership will not fund basic or pre-clinical research or research using animals.
Budget and Project Period
- This is a four year award granting $200,000 per year. Total grant award is $800,000 (plus 10% indirect costs & 3.5% cost of living increase both on an annual basis)
- The grant will support research, team building and dissemination activities.
Eligibility
- To be eligible to apply as a Senior Investigator the researcher must hold an academic appointment at a university in Connecticut in one of these categories:
Tenured associate or full professor position or
Rank of professor with no term limit or
Clinical faculty member at associate or full professor level with 6 or more continuous years of extramurally funded research with a commensurate record of publications and an institutional commitment that extends through the 4 year period of the grant.
- The application must include a team of two or three co-investigators. The team members may be from academic or nonacademic institutions or public or private sector organizations either inside or outside Connecticut.
Application Information
Individuals must be invited to apply to this program. The Foundation's review of a letter of intent will determine whether the researcher is invited to apply for a grant to this program.
- Letters of intent due May 5, 2008
- Invited applications due July 14, 2008
- Grant term begins January 1, 2009
