Primary Care Strategies for the Promotion of Early Relational Health and Early Childhood Development

If you are interested in applying for the Reach Out and Read Collaborative Research Award, please click here for further instructions, and ensure you submit all materials specific to your selected funding path.

Eligibility

It is required that all proposals be developed and submitted by study teams.  Study teams must consist of researchers from at least two institutions and include at least 1 mentor-early career investigator pair.

The mentor-early career investigator pair must be members of the Academic Pediatric Association.  Others on the study team are encouraged to join the APA.

Early career investigators are defined as:

• Faculty members no more than 5 years out from completion of all training (fellowship or post-doc)
• Fellows
• Post-doctoral trainees
• Other individuals involved in research aligned with the APA's mission who are within 5 years of completion of training

Exceptions to early career investigator qualifications:

• Extended family leave
• Job sharing
• Military service and deployment
• Graduates of APA Scholars Programs that include a focus on research may be granted an additional 3 years beyond completion of the APA Scholars Programs, provided their academic rank is at an Instructor or Assistant Professor-level, or the equivalent.

Applicants requesting extended eligibility should include the following items with their proposal submission:

• An additional statement of 3 sentences or less describing their situation and rationale for this request. This statement should be provided on a separate document and does NOT count toward the application page limit.
• Their mentor's letter should also support this request for extended eligibility and attest to the applicant's commitment to research.

Receipt of applications is encouraged from individuals who are members of an underrepresented minority (UIM), disabled, or from a socially, culturally, economically, or educationally disadvantaged background.

Proposals

Collaborative Research Awards will be given with the understanding that the project is initiated and completed within 2 years. Projects kick off at the conclusion of the annual Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting and are expected to close by the PAS Meeting two years later.

Preference will be given to proposals in which:

• There is a diversity of research team members
• Findings are likely to lead to development of larger-scale projects related to the ROR research agenda
• Collaborations are proposed with institutions and groups outside of pediatrics, including those in educational settings or other community partners
• There is strong evidence of a dedicated early investigator-mentor pairing
• The early career investigators articulate long term career goals related to the research agenda, and provide evidence for how receipt of the award will facilitate those goals
• There is strong evidence of a dedicated mentorship within each institutional pairing