Health Outcomes Sabbatical Fellowships provide $40,000 for up to a year of sabbatical research. (Pictured: Foundation alumnus Thiyagu Rajakannan, MPharm, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2013.)
KEY DETAILS
Application deadline: February 1, 2019 @ 11:59 PM EST.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants must 1) hold a PhD, PharmD MD or ScD degree in a field of study logically or functionally related to the proposed post doctoral activities, 2) hold a faculty appointment that presents eligibility for sabbatical leave from their institution, 3) have institutional approval of a sabbatical plan that includes partial salary matching the PhRMA Foundation stipend, and 4) have an endorsement from a mentor who agrees to sponsor the applicant’s visiting scientist activity. All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Funding: $40,000 for a minimum of six months to a maximum of 12 months.
Important: Please click on topics in blue, above, to learn the full details about this award.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Health Outcomes research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to health-care delivery, from studies evaluating effectiveness of a pharmaceutical intervention, to the impact of reimbursement policies on outcomes of care. It also ranges from the development and use of tools to perform patient-based assessments to analyses of ways in which results of outcomes research are disseminated to providers or consumers to encourage behavior change.
Outcomes research incorporates a variety of methods from different disciplines. The application of outcomes research principles in evaluating the design, delivery, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals includes but isn’t limited to the following general areas:
Pharmacoeconomics
Pharmacoeconomics evaluates behavior of individuals, organizations, and markets concerning use of pharmaceutical products, services, and programs. The discipline frequently focuses on costs (inputs) and consequences (outcomes) of pharmaceutical use.
Patient Reported Outcomes
Patient Reported Outcomes focuses on the value assigned to duration of life as modified by the impairment of physical, social, and psychological functional states, perceptions, and opportunities influenced by disease, injury, treatment, or policy. In this context, the field is also known as health-related quality of life.
Other types of analyses and terminology under the umbrella of health outcomes are listed below:
- Burden of Disease
- Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Patient Preferences
- Patient Centered Outcomes Research
- Compliance/Adherence
- Cost–Consequences Analysis
- Cost–Benefit Analysis
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Cost–Utility Analysis
- Health Outcomes Research
- Health-Related Quality of Life
- Health Services Research
- Health Technology Assessment
- Patient Satisfaction
Eligibility & Requirements
- Eligible applicants must 1) hold a PhD, PharmD, MD or ScD degree in a field of study logically or functionally related to the proposed post doctoral activities, 2) hold a faculty appointment that presents eligibility for sabbatical leave from their institution, 3) have institutional approval of a sabbatical plan that includes partial salary matching the PhRMA Foundation stipend, and 4) have an endorsement from a mentor who agrees to sponsor the applicant’s visiting scientist activity.
- Eligible candidates will have approval for sabbatical leave from their institution and a commitment from the research mentor who will host them at the visiting institution.
- The applicant and mentor of the program must describe how the multidisciplinary goals of the research experiential program will be accomplished, and provide assurance that key collaborating mentors endorse and are willing to support the plan.
- Matching funds must be provided by the institution.
- All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
- This fellowship primarily encourages mid-career scientists to engage in a year-long experiential program that will refocus their core research on areas of emerging importance in health outcomes.
- Awards may be activated beginning July 1, 2019, or on the first day of any month thereafter, up to and including December 1, 2019.
- A stipend of $40,000, payable quarterly for a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year, will be provided.
- The program provides no other subsidies (travel, tuition, fringe benefits, indirect institutional costs, etc.).
- The award will be made to the institution on behalf of the fellow.
This letter is an opportunity to tell us who you are and to detail your plans for your future. Include a synopsis of your career, tell us your interests and describe your desired future career path. Your letter should not exceed 2 pages of size 12 font.
4. Research AbstractAn abstract of approximately 200 words concerning the proposed research plan
5. Research PlanThe applicant must prepare a comprehensive statement, not to exceed eight single-spaced pages of size12 font of the plans for research, and for education and training in this discipline. Applicants are requested to use a format similar to that specified for the submission of grants to the National Institutes of Health, which includes a description of the objective(s), rationale, methods of approach and a bibliography of major references (the bibliography is not included in the eight page limit). The use of human subjects should be addressed in the research plan. Preliminary results should be included in the narrative of the research proposal and reprints of up to three key papers may be included.
6. Home Department Chair’s information including an email address.The home department chair must provide a letter of recommendation and confirm approval for the sabbatical leave.
7. Host Department Chair Information including an email address.The host department chair must provide a letter identifying the department of the institution in which the position and training will be established and its affiliation with whatever other departments may be jointly involved in said training. The letter should identify other individuals with whom the applicant will be directly involved and in what fashion and the date on which the position described will be started.
8. Sponsor information and bio sketchThe letter should include a brief description of the training and research facilities that will be available to the candidate at the host institution and an indication of approval of the applicant’s plan from all collaborators participating in the sabbatical activity.
9. Information and letters of reference from up to 3 other individuals familiar with your scientific career. 10. ReprintsCopies of relevant articles published by the applicant.
Letters and third-party materials should not be uploaded by the applicant. The application process will request contact information, including an email address, for your chair, thesis advisor, and additional reference. These individuals will receive a prompt from the application system with instructions for uploading their document(s), which will be appended to the application. They are due February 15th. Based on our policy, we do not provide written reviews.
