Population Health Grants

Recipients of the President’s Fund in Population Health grants will be announced in February 2025. Funding may be up to $25,000 per year, for one or two years. Call for proposals deadline is Dec. 2, 2024.

About the Grants

With a focus on improving health and health equity through population health, we are pleased to present this funding opportunity through the generosity of the President’s Fund to promote faculty development, investigation, intervention and evaluation efforts that build upon community assets and overcome barriers to optimal health and well-being. Awards may be made for one or two years, up to $25,000 per year.

Population health studies the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. Populations in the community are often defined by a shared geography and/or other shared characteristics. In healthcare, the patient population served by a provider, practice or health system may form the population of interest. Within any population, it is critical to identify variations in relevant outcomes and understand the factors driving these variations. These efforts inform interventions by applying existing evidence to local context and culture, adapting to local strengths and needs, and addressing social factors (i.e., social determinants of health) to improve health and well-being and reduce health disparities. To understand impact across stakeholders, population health interventions require robust evaluations. Understanding variable impact across subsets of the population offers key insights to future adaptation, spread and scale.

Projects can be focused on the community, the healthcare setting or efforts that bridge both. Strong proposals will illustrate a deep understanding of the targeted population with a clear description of the challenge that is being studied or addressed.

Overview

The President’s Fund in Population Health was established to encourage and support faculty-led efforts to improve the health and well-being of communities at the population level. This fund is administered through the Creighton University Institute for Population Health (IPH). Faculty are encouraged to apply for funding to support work at various stages of implementation (e.g., needs assessment, intervention planning, implementation, evaluation, scaling and dissemination). Proposals must represent meaningful engagement of the targeted population, a clear description of the challenge that is being researched or addressed and its implications for advancing health equity, and the associated implementation phase(s) that you intend to accomplish (outlined below). Faculty are encouraged to engage students in their proposals.

 

2025 Application Information

We strongly recommend you review the Creighton InfoEd Overview.

Information Sessions

Register to attend one of two information sessions to learn more.

Call for proposals

We are looking for innovative projects that improve the health of our communities at the population level. Projects should be focused on the community, the health care setting, or bridging both. Strong proposals will illustrate a deep understanding of the targeted population with a clear description of the challenge that is being researched or addressed. Proposals must fall into one or more of the implementation phases outlined below.

  1. Phase 1—Understanding the Community

    Phase 1 involves planning and conducting a needs assessment, typically in anticipation of a subsequent intervention. In most instances, this will take the form of direct engagement with the target population, although other rigorous approaches (e.g., conducting a systematic review or realist review) are possible.

  2. Phase 2—Taking Action

    Phase 2 is action oriented, with a focus on designing and executing an intervention. Please provide evidence of previously completed needs assessment or understanding of the population and the need. Proposals will need to show how the intervention is meant to address a specific challenge to optimal health or health care for an identified population.

  3. Phase 3—Assessing Impact

    Phase 3 focuses on evaluation and/or dissemination and scaling of effective interventions. Proposals will describe plans for a robust evaluation on an implemented intervention that targets a specific challenge to optimal health for an identified population.

We seek project proposals that:

  • Are inventive or novel to improving equitable health and health care through a population health approach. 
  • Inspire and empower creative solutions to today’s pressing health care challenges (equitable access to care, technology, community trust, workforce diversity, etc.). 
  • Seek to have a deep understanding of the identified population and their distinct challenges to achieving optimal health. 
  • Are catalysts for sustainable change. 
  • Have and/or extend social impact (real-world, real-time projects). 
  • Utilize multifaceted, culturally, and historically sensitive approaches for all populations. 
  • Exemplify strong partnerships within Creighton and across sectors (health systems, community-based organizations, education, payers, etc.).

Eligibility

This grant is available to Creighton tenure-track/tenured faculty, Creighton full-time, nontenure track faculty (with renewable appointments), and Creighton staff.

Selection Criteria & Proposal Review

Proposals will be judged by a selection committee based on the criteria below. All decisions are final. All proposals will be judged on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the following:

  • Detailed project description that extends Creighton’s mission of justice and clearly illustrates how the project aims to address an identified challenge to achieving optimal health for a well-defined population. 
  • Describes the challenge that the proposal aims to address and how it was identified for the specific population. 
  • Describes how the proposal collaborates across Creighton, the health system, and/or community leaders and stakeholders. 
  • Outlines specific objectives, key milestones, and methods to measure the impact of the project. 
  • Includes a detailed breakdown of anticipated use of grant funds to achieve program goals. 
  • Includes a plan for next steps, sustainability, and public dissemination of proposal results.

Questions?

Please direct all inquiries and communications to Sarah King at sarahking1@creighton.edu. Proposals may be submitted through InfoEd beginning October 21 with a deadline of Dec. 2, 2024. Register to attend an information session Friday, November 1, 2024, or Friday, November 8, 2024.

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