Presented by the ASAHP Research, Discovery, and Innovation Committee
Deadline: June 16, 2025 at 8pm ET
2025 Call for Proposals
WHO IS ELIGIBLE: The Principal Investigator (PI) must be a full-time faculty in an ASAHP member institution with a degree in an allied health profession. Applicants may serve as PI on only one grant application. Only one application may be submitted per ASAHP Member Institution.
AWARD AMOUNT: We expect to fund 2-3 awards up to $30,000 per award
GRANT PERIOD: September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2026
APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 16, 2025 - Please note that this deadline is final and will not be extended.
Goal: To support innovative research projects with the highest potential to produce new knowledge and paradigms towards success in interprofessional collaboration. Projects should involve at least two of the allied health professions listed in the next paragraph. Other health professions not listed are encouraged to participate as collaborators. The most competitive applications will be designed as scalable projects with potential outcomes which can be broadly applied and implemented by ASAHP member institutions.
Federal Definitions of Allied Health
Allied health is defined in the Federal Code and further defined in The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Allied health is also included in eligibility criteria for participation in grant programs administered by the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Public Health Service. The ACA (P.L. 111-148) defines allied health professionals as follows: 1) ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL.—The term“allied health professional” means an allied health professional as defined in section 799B(5) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295p(5)) who— (A) has graduated and received an allied health professions degree or certificate from an institution of higher education; and (B) is employed with a Federal, State, local or tribal public health agency, or in a setting or in a setting where patients might require health care services, including acute care facilities, ambulatory care facilities, personal residences, and other settings located in health professional shortage areas, medically underserved areas, or medically underserved populations, as recognized by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Title 42, Chapter 6A, Subchapter V, Part F, Sec. 295p of the Federal Code states that the term ”allied health professionals” means a health professional (other than a registered nurse or physician assistant) who has not received a degree of doctor of medicine, a degree of doctor of osteopathy, a degree of doctor of dentistry or an equivalent degree, a degree of doctor of veterinary medicine or an equivalent degree, a degree of doctor of optometry or an equivalent degree, a degree of doctor of podiatric medicine or an equivalent degree, a degree of bachelor of science in pharmacy or an equivalent degree, a degree of doctor of pharmacy or an equivalent degree, a graduate degree in public health or an equivalent degree, a degree of doctor of chiropractic or an equivalent degree, a graduate degree in health administration or an equivalent degree, a doctoral degree in clinical psychology or an equivalent degree, or a degree in social work or an equivalent degree or a degree in counseling or an equivalent degree.
RESOLVED, the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions (ASAHP) Board of Directors approves the above definition of allied health on this 27th day of October, 2015.
Award: 2-3 grant(s) may be awarded up to $30,000 per award. Awards will be provided for one year of support. The number of grants and grant amount awarded will ultimately depend on the quality, potential outcome(s) and total cost. Funds cannot be used for indirect costs or F&A. Grant funds may be used for ASAHP Annual Conference travel and registration but may not exceed $2,000. Conference travel and registration funding would be included in the total proposal budget. Any other travel is not allowed.
Deadline: Applications must be received via electronic submission to the Association of School Advancing Health Professions by 8:00pm ET on June 16, 2025. Proposals received by the deadline will be reviewed by a committee of educational researchers. Decisions will be sent out in early August 2025.
Proposal (criteria & guidelines): Applications that do not follow these guidelines will not be reviewed. Proposals that include two or more ASAHP member institutions are acceptable. Proposals should not exceed five (5) pages and should be organized as follows:
Background & significance: Include a testable hypothesis and/or the theoretical framework or conceptual model to be utilized. Concisely state the research problem to be addressed.
Research plan: Outline the specific aims of the proposed research, the experimental approaches to be taken, data analyses, and expected outcomes. Note: Preliminary data are not requisite, but could be used to strengthen a proposal.
Milestones: List two to three specific milestones to be accomplished by the end of the 12-month funding period (September 1, 2025 - August 30, 2026)
PI assurance: Include a statement from the PI that they have sufficient time and local support and will make the funded study a high priority, pursue it aggressively, and only use the funds for the proposed research.
Interprofessional team: Provide a description of the interprofessional team, including the role of each faculty team member and how the team will collaborate on the project.
Budget & References
Budget: provide itemized budget with brief justification (limited to one to two sentences) for each item. Funds cannot be used for faculty salary support but can provide funding for technical support personnel. Travel other than attending the ASAHP annual conference is not allowed.
References.
Letter of Support
Letter of Support from the Department/Program Chair/Directors with key personnel involved in the project signed by the Dean of the School. Availability of PI research time and effort must be included in the letter.
Biographical Sketch for PI and Key Personnel
5 page limit per investigator using the NIH biographical sketch format
Submission Criteria:
Submit grant applications electronically as PDFs in the following order using this online portal:
Proposal (limited to 5 pages for items 1-5) formatted in Arial 11-point font with 0.75 margins
Budget
References
Letter of Support signed by the Dean of the School
PI and key personnel biographical sketch(s) in NIH biographical sketch format limited to 5 pages per person
Post-Award Requirements
Awardees will be asked to provide a project summary (limited to 200 words) in lay terms for public dissemination. All projects are expected to be initiated and finalized in a timely fashion. Awardees will provide a mid-year, one-page progress report to the ASAHP Research, Discovery, and Innovation Committee in January 2026. A template will be provided.
At the end of the one-year project term, awardees will provide a one-page report by November 15, 2026, to the ASAHP Research, Discovery, and Innovation Committee indicating results obtained, list of publications and presentations, and plans or progress toward obtaining external funding. Acknowledgement of ASAHP funding support must be listed in each communication of the outcomes of the project supported by this award. Awardees will also be asked to present their findings at the 2026 ASAHP Annual Conference and its anticipated research findings would be published in the Journal of Allied Health.
For a period of three years following the expiration of the grant term, the awardee agrees to submit to ASAHP, on an annual basis and using the prescribed reporting form, a comprehensive record of all publications, external grant awards, scholarly presentations, and new collaborations that arise from or utilize data generated during the grant period.
Requests for no-cost extensions are discouraged. They may be only granted under extraordinary circumstances for up to three months and a formal request must be written to the IP grant subcommittee, including the rationale and a new proposed timeline. The researcher will still be expected to present at the 2026 ASAHP Annual Conference if granted a no-cost extension.
Please contact Kristen Truong at kristen@asahp.org if you have questions or would like more information.
Frequently asked questions
What are considered health professions?
The definition of health professions can be found here. For the purposes of this application, the health professions refers to professions except for MOD-VOPP (medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy).
What determines eligibility of an interprofessional team?
An interprofessional team includes one or more faculty team members from at least two different health professions. For example, one team member could be from occupational therapy and another from audiology. A team with both members from occupational therapy would not be eligible.
Do I have to include all $30,000 in my grant proposal?
Two to three grants will be awarded up to $30,000. Your budget proposal can be up to $30,000.
Do I have to be an ASAHP member to apply?
Yes, only faculty at ASAHP member institutions are eligible to apply and only one application may be submitted per member institution. The Principal Investigator (PI) must maintain active ASAHP membership throughout the entire grant period. If membership lapses, grant funding may be subject to forfeiture and required to be returned.
How is the Interprofessional Collaboration Grant different than ASAHP's Interprofessional Innovation Grant (IIG)?
ASAHP's Interprofessional Innovation Grant (IIG) Program supports pilot programs and provides recipients a competitive edge in securing additional funding by supporting pilot projects and further developing grantsmanship skill sets. IIG grants are up to $2,000. The Interprofessional Collaboration Grant program supports innovative research projects with awards up to $30,000.