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Dibble/DeJoseph Lesbian Health
Research Award
The Lesbian Health
Research Center (LHRC) at the Institute for Health and Aging-University of
California, San Francisco (IHA-UCSF) has as its
mission to enhance clinical practice and to inform policy about the health
care needs of and delivery of services to lesbians, bisexual women, and
transgender individuals through a program of research, postgraduate
education and training, and public service.
In 2004 the LHRC
established the
Dibble/DeJoseph Lesbian Health Research
Award (Dibble/DeJoseph LHRA).
The goal of this Award Program is to provide support for doctoral or
post-doctoral students/investigators to conduct research about the health
of lesbian, bisexual women, and trans-gendered individuals across the
lifespan.
Grant
Applications are to be submitted in the required format and will be
evaluated on the following criteria:
·
Research
design
·
Feasibility of accomplishing the project, including investigator
qualifications & institutional support.
·
Budget and
justification
·
Significance of the project
to the communities of lesbians, bisexual women,
and trans-gender individuals
Applicants will be notified
within 4 weeks (approximately) of submitting an application. Grant awards
will range from $500 - $1000. Grant
award checks will be made to the primary institution identified on the
application cover page. Grant money is NOT awarded for completed research.
Within six months of
completing the project, a final report*, a copy of the final
dissertation or a copy of the final manuscript that was submitted to a
peer-reviewed journal is to be submitted to the Dibble/DeJoseph LHRA Program
Manager. Upon completion of the project, the investigator(s) will be
invited to present their results at the annual LHRC Conference.
The final report should include a summary of the purpose of the project, the
methodology, the results and the conclusions. The report can be a copy of a
dissertation or a copy of an article that was submitted to a journal.
Dibble/DeJoseph
Lesbian Health Research Award
Grant Application
Format
(please
download this application)
1)
Cover Page (use form
provided on application)
2)
Abstract of the Project in 300 words or less
3)
Detailed Plan of Project:
a. maximum of six double
spaced typed pages (12 point font)
b. hypotheses or research
questions, goals and specific objectives of the project, the relationship of
the proposed project to other work already accomplished in the field,
methods, sample size calculation with power analysis (if appropriate), and
the significance of the project to
lesbians, bisexual women,
and/or transgendered individuals.
4)
Itemized Budget:
a. total amount requested
for the project from the
Dibble/DeJoseph Lesbian Health Research Award
b.
supplies and expenses with justification (<
1 page)
v
The
Dibble/DeJoseph Lesbian Health Research
Award does not cover personnel costs
(salary and benefits) for the Investigators or indirect institutional costs.
5) Institutional Review
Board approval from the investigator’s institution if animals or humans are
involved in the project. Project funding will not be released until approval
has been received.
6) Biosketch (2-3 page) of
Principal Investigator and Faculty Supervisor/Co-Investigator.
7)
Short letter
of support from the faculty member who is supervising the project.
8)
Signed statement by the Investigator and, if
applicable, by the Co-Investigator that:
a. all publications
resulting from the research conducted from the award will acknowledge that
the project was funded by the
Dibble/DeJoseph Lesbian Health Research Award
of the Lesbian Health Research Center at the
Institute for Health and Aging-University of California, San Francisco
b. the abstract of the grant
will be publicized on the LHRC website with the names of the Principal and,
if applicable, Co-Investigator, when the grant is funded
9)
Evidence of the primary institution’s tax
exempt status
Please number all pages and send 2 copies of
EVERY SINGLE ITEM to:
Leslie Ross, PhD
Chair, Dibble/DeJoseph LHRA
Committee
LHRC, IHA-UCSF
3333 California St., Suite 340
San Francisco, CA 94118
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