Program Description
The Southern California Healthcare Delivery Science Center (SC HDS Center) is interested in supporting the design, implementation, and evaluation of innovations in care delivery. We intend to support scientific endeavors that advance our understanding of healthcare delivery innovations and their impact on patients, practitioners, and healthcare systems. This solicitation requests letters of intent for grants that would catalyze new projects or supplement existing projects related to these themes in care delivery:
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- access
- quality
- efficiency
- patient‐centeredness
- equity
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Innovations typically take the form of system-wide changes to workflows and new standards of patient care and should be feasible and sustainable.
Grant Amount
Applications may request up to $30,000 for up to 2 years. Annual progress reports will be required. Letters of Intent should include an estimated budget total and timeline.
Eligibility
Individuals with a full-time faculty appointment in any department or school/division of USC can apply as Principal Investigators. Diverse teams (e.g., interdisciplinary and involving junior and senior investigators) and multisite collaboration (e.g., with more than one health system or universities) are encouraged.
Before Submitting a Letter of Intent: Shape your idea with Center Director Dr. Amytis Towfighi: Request a free consultation here: https://sc-ctsi.org/resources/healthcare-delivery-science.
Before Submitting a Full Application: Complete the online Introduction to Healthcare Delivery Science course. If invited to apply, applicants should complete all introductory lectures (including quizzes) and incorporate Healthcare Delivery Science principles into their projects before applying.
To access the course for free:
Fill out form: USC Events | HDS Center Certificate Program
Enter guest code: sniaforfree
Select: HDS Single Course: Introduction to Healthcare Delivery Science $125
Letter of Intent Format
Submit Letters of Intent by completing the following fields in the application portal (linked below).
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- Project Title
- Principal Investigator(s)
- Research Plan
- BACKGROUND [1,000 characters with spaces]: Describe the challenge in healthcare that you propose to address. Describe how the proposed research contributes to delivery system goals, and its potential for/relevance to large‐scale implementation and dissemination of findings more broadly. Specify whether the seed grant would begin a new project or expand on an existing project.
- INNOVATION [1,000 characters with spaces]: Describe the intervention or program to be developed or studied. Also describe how the project will align with infrastructure and operations, for example by explaining current operations and how the proposed project would fit in. Also state the primary and specialty care working groups to be engaged in the project and a listing of study sites.
- APPROACH [1,000 characters with spaces]: Briefly describe the scientific approach including design, primary and secondary outcomes, and analytic methods.
- IMPACT [1,000 characters with spaces]: Describe the expected impact of the project on access to care, quality of care, efficiency of care, patient‐centeredness of care and/or patient health outcomes.
- Project Team [1,000 characters with spaces]
- Provide the names and project‐relevant expertise of the PI and co‐investigators, and what they will contribute to the project.
- References
- Budget
- List the project expense categories (personnel, supplies, consultations, travel) as well as overall budget estimate. Co-funding is encouraged but not required. Applicants should describe any specific USC and/or other funds that this grant will leverage. CTSI faculty members who receive salary support from the SC CTSI should not request any additional salary support in the budget. No indirect costs are allowed.
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Submission
Deadline for submission: February 14, 2025
Applications may be submitted through this website: Seed Grant Application. Questions about the submission process can be addressed to hds@usc.edu.