Putting the Charter Into Practice Grant

The American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation has partnered with the Council of Medical Specialty Societies for the Putting the Charter into Practice grant program to provide financial support to professional medical organizations, health systems/hospitals, academic medical centers and medical practices, and other organizations as they work to advance medical professionalism.

Specifically, the grant program will facilitate the development of innovative, emerging strategies to advance appropriate healthcare decision-making and stewardship of healthcare resources, one of the commitments of the Physician Charter, which states: "While meeting the needs of individual patients, physicians are required to provide healthcare that is based on the wise and cost-effective management of limited clinical resources."

Potential projects to advance physician stewardship might include, but are not limited to: educational programs to sensitize physicians to resource management; development of communication competencies around shared decision-making and other methods to improve and support optimal healthcare decision-making; development of guidelines for high-value, effective care; dissemination of guidelines and recommendation to practicing physicians; and initiatives to reduce overuse of certain tests and procedures. These represent only a few examples of potential projects, and applicants are encouraged to think broadly and creatively on the topic of appropriate healthcare decision-making.

Applicants from health systems/hospitals, academic medical centers, medical groups, and professional medical organizations that are interested in advancing physicians’ stewardship of resources are encouraged to apply. Medical school and residency programs may also apply, as long as their proposed initiatives include both students/residents and faculty as co-participants and learners.

The ABIM Foundation will award up to five grants of $20,000 each in 2011.

Visit the ABIM Foundation Web site for complete program guidelines and application procedures.

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award

Call for Nominations for Annual CCPH Award
Past CCPH Award Recipients
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the CCPH Award
Summary of Review Comments
For More Information

The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that build on
each other's strengths to improve higher education, civic engagement, and the overall
health of communities.

The intent of the award is to highlight the power and potential of community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice. The award recognizes partnerships that are striving to achieve the systems and policy changes needed to overcome the root causes of health, social and economic inequalities.

Through the CCPH Award we seek to recognize community-
campus partnerships that:

• Others can aspire to.
• Embody the CCPH principles.
• Pursue multiple community-campus partnership strategies.
• Involve a full range of partners.
• Achieve significant outcomes that go beyond a process or a single event.
  

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Nominations for the 2011 CCPH Annual Award are due by midnight eastern time (U.S.) on Friday February 4, 2011. Partnerships may nominate themselves and need not be members of CCPH. Nominations in English are welcome from anywhere in the world. For complete nomination guidelines, click here.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Questions about the CCPH Award should be sent to award06@u.washington.edu.

Prevention and Health Promotion Conference Support

CDC’s Procurement and Grants Office has published a funding opportunity announcement entitled, “National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Conference Support Program”. Approximately $1,500,000 will be available to fiscal year 2011 to fund 10 to 20 awards. The purpose of conference support funding is to provide partial support for specific non-Federal conferences in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention information and education programs, and applied research.