Timeline 
Application deadline is March 31, 2022 
Winners will be selected by April 30, 2022
Winners will be announced May 2022, 2022
 
Award Amount
Two awards are planned at $1,000 per award.
 
Award Purpose
The Social Emergency Medicine Research Funding Award is to support pilot studies and other formative work for junior researchers engaged in social emergency medicine. Topics in social emergency medicine that face barriers to funding through traditional sources (such as gun violence) will be considered of high potential impact for the award. Topics that combine other disciplines within emergency medicine (SIM, toxicology, ultrasound, etc) with social emergency medicine principles and objectives are also encouraged.
 
Selection Process
Award proposals will be scored by Social Emergency Medicine and Public Health Research Subcommittee. Criteria for selection will include alignment with social emergency medicine interest group priorities; investigator potential; feasibility; potential impact; and plans for further studies. 
 
Eligibility
The target applicants are SAEM members who are junior faculty (academic rank of Instructor or Assistant Professor), residents, and fellows. Residents and fellows will be required to submit a faculty mentorship plan.

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1. Full Name (Required.)

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2. Institution (Required.)

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3. Academic Role: (Required.)

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4. Email Address (Required.)

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5. Gender Identity

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6. Do you identify as a member of a racial or ethnic group that is underrepresented in health research? (Required.)

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7. Please upload a Word or PDF document of your proposal.

Applications should be short (project proposal should be 1–1.5 pages expected, 2 pages max) 1-inch margins, 11 point Arial font). An additional half-page budget and optional half-page for a mentorship plan (resident/fellow applicants only) should also be included. Applications that do not adhere to the page limit or format will not be reviewed.

Please use the following subheadings for the project proposal:
- Background / Importance / Innovation
- Study Objective / Hypothesis
- Proposed Methodology Study
- Timeline
- Anticipated Results Plan for Dissemination
- Future Directions (e.g., follow-up study, larger trial, grant proposal)
- References are not necessary; if included please limit to 3 and this should be included in the 2-page maximum length of this section

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8. Please include a half-page budget justification as a Word or PDF document.

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9. If you are a fellow or resident, please include a half-page mentorship plan as a Word or PDF document.

NIH definition of underrepresented groups in medicine: https://extramural-diversity.nih.gov/diversity-matters/underrepresented-groups

For questions regarding submissions or the awards, please contact Liz Burner (eburner@usc.edu) and Utsha Khatri (utsha.khatri@mountsinai.org)

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