Our Grantees

Across the Foundation’s priority areas, our grantees are working to improve the health of the public through innovative research and programs. The Foundation awards up to 50 grants on a rotating schedule each year.

Featured Grantees

Improving Communication Among Interprofessional Healthcare Teams

Teaching Teamwork Interprofessional Education at the University of Washington

This project, proposed by the University of Washington Schools of Health Sciences (Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Social Work and Public Health) aims to validate and then disseminate an innovative simulation-based team-training program that was developed to improve communication among interprofessional healthcare team members.

Shoring Up Primary Care and Teaching Urban Medicine

The Johns Hopkins Internal-Medicine-Pediatrics Urban Leadership Training Program is a two-phase multi-institutional program that creates a novel residency combining internal medicine and pediatrics to prepare physicians to become leaders in urban primary care in Baltimore and in other cities across the nation.

Transforming Pediatric Residency Training To Improve Care for Underserved Children

Through this initiative, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will utilize a quality improvement approach as they seek to train and develop pediatricians to care for the unique needs of underserved children and their families.