Funding opportunity: Collaborative Health Sciences grant application now open

Through this grant program, WPP supports interdisciplinary team science to advance novel research or education approaches. Projects bring together different disciplines to target complex health problems while advancing health, health care and health equity in Wisconsin and beyond.

Preliminary applications are due February 10, 2025.

Grant awards are up to $600,000 over three years. The Partnership Education and Research Committee (PERC) anticipates funding up to five projects during the 2025 grant cycle.

View the application materials and key dates

Applicant eligibility: The primary project team is composed of one Principal Investigator (PI) and one or two Co-Principal Investigators and must include two or more of the following disciplines: basic, clinical, education, informatics/data, population, social/behavioral and/or translational sciences. In addition, the team may include a number of collaborators consistent with the scope of the project.

A PI must have a salaried appointment of at least 50 percent as professor, associate professor, or academic staff with permanent PI status in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Co-PIs and collaborators may have an appointment at any Universities of Wisconsin campus or other academic institution, Wisconsin health care system, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin-based non-profit community organization, 4K-12 school district or Wisconsin tribal, state or local government entity.

The committee encourages applications from eligible faculty and staff in basic and applied science and clinical science departments across the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

Preliminary applications will be considered by the PERC for further development as full applications.

View the Request for Proposals for a complete list of key dates and deadlines.

If you have questions, contact Jaimee Prado, WPP Program Officer at jkprado@wisc.edu.