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School of Public Health Pilot Awards
Accelerator/Spark Award
The Accelerator/Spark Award program supports faculty research projects that require preliminary data to strengthen future applications for larger extramural funding opportunities. The program is designed to accelerate promising research initiatives, encourage new collaborations among School of Public Health faculty, and enhance the competitiveness of future grant proposals.
Each year, one Accelerator Award of up to $10,000 is available to each department. When additional pilot funding is available, the School may also provide Spark Awards of up to $10,000 to support additional meritorious projects through the same application and review process.
Ride Share Award
The Ride Share Award supports interdisciplinary research projects led by two or more Early-Stage or New Investigators serving as multiple Principal Investigators (mPIs) who partner with an experienced faculty mentor. The program is designed to advance team science, foster mentorship, encourage collaboration across disciplines, and generate compelling preliminary data for future federal grant applications. As funding is available, the Ride Share Award of up to $50,000 supports innovative research that addresses important public health challenges and strengthens the development of competitive externally funded research programs.
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Public Health Research Poster Session
The SOPH Office of Research invites all UAB SOPH undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, and faculty to present, attend, and take part in the annual Public Health Research Poster Session. The Poster Session is held during National Public Health Week.
Alumni, community, and university collaborators are welcome to attend the poster session and learn about ongoing research at the UAB SOPH.
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Doctoral Student Grant Submission Curriculum
Grant Writing Course (3 credit hours): The Office of Research supports a school-wide grant-writing course for SOPH doctoral students (PUH 703: Public Health Grant Writing). This course provides in-depth exposure and hands-on experience with scientific grant writing. Students address the development of testable research hypotheses, prepare a specific aims page, draft the research strategy (significance, innovation, and approach sections), and develop a biosketch using ScienCV. This course is offered annually in the Spring.
Grant Writing Workshop (1 credit hour): The Office of Research supports a workshop (PUH 704: Public Health Grant Submission Workshop) for SOPH doctoral students who successfully completed PUH 703 and are interested in submitting their research strategy to NIH (or another relevant funding agency). The overall goal of the workshop is to walk students through the preparation of the entire grant package, including the administrative or “non-scientific” documents (e.g., budget, budget justification, applicant background and goals for fellowship training) and further refinement of the proposal draft developed in PUH 703. This course is offered immediately following PUH 703 during the summer (full-term) semester.
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School of Public Health Research Incentive Plan
The goal of this plan is to bring resources to the School of Public Health by incentivizing the submission and award of extramural research funding. There are four incentive categories available to full-time faculty with primary appointments in the School of Public Health.