About this ebook
The book lays out an approach to thinking about grant writing and the necessary vocabulary and knowledge to effectively read a funding opportunity, determine its appropriateness to pursue vis a vis your ideas, and level of professional development, and the processes for applying for funding. This edition also includes expanded coverage of important areas including how to develop a grant budget, implement effective trans-disciplinary collaborations (an approach that is being advocated in many of the new NIH funding opportunities), interpret reviewers' comments, and manage a grant project upon its award.
As in previous editions, each chapter is peppered with examples and helpful tables that summarize key points; outline specific questions to ask colleagues, program officers and administrators to obtain the critical information you need for success; and appendices full of specific examples and templates.
About the author
Kevin J. Lyons, PhD, is Director, Office of Institutional Research and Assistant Vice President, Program Evaluation and Student Faculty Surveys at Thomas Jefferson University. He has over 35 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member and administrator. Dr. Lyons has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings and has been a frequent consultant to universities and government agencies on issues such as research development and program improvement. He has served on the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Health Services Research: Training and Workforce Issues and is recently participated in their Workshop on the Allied Health Workforce and Services. For ten years Dr. Lyons served as Editor of the Journal of Allied Health, the scholarly journal of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, and has received the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award and been elected a Fellow in that organization. He has co-edited a special issue of the Journal that was published in September, 2010 on interprofessional education which featured papers from national and international leaders in the field. Dr. Lyons is a funded investigator, having received grants and contracts from the Bureau of Health Professions to advance the research mission of the allied health professions, Dr. Lyons has served on peer review panels for FIPSE, OSERS, NCCAM and NIDRR in the U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of Health Professions and for numerous professional journals. Dr Lyons is one of the founding members of American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. He also sits on the Board of Trustees for Rocky Mountain University of the Health Professions.
Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, is Professor, Department of Community Public Health Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, with joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, School of Medicine. She was founding Director of the Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health (CARAH) at Jefferson College of Health Professions, Thomas Jefferson University and now she is the founding director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging at Johns Hopkins UniversityDr. Gitlin is a nationally and internationally recognized and well-funded researcher, having received research and training grants from both federal agencies and private foundations, including the Alzheimer's Association and the National Institutes of Health. She currently has over $15 million of committed research grant monies and has helped garner over $50 million in grant funding over the past 25 years. Dr. Gitlin has also served as a grant reviewer for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the Alzheimer's Association, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Nursing Research, the Agency for Health Research and Quality, and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation. She has received numerous awards for her intervention studies including for her partnerships with community groups.
