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The IPEC/COF Excellence in IPE Collaboration Award Application Deadline is February 3, 2025. All submissions must be received by 11:59 P.M. Eastern.

This award recognizes outstanding contributions by a team of health-professional school based collaborators (faculty, administrators, and/or students) who have innovatively addressed a public health issue while making a lasting impact on the community’s health.

The overall winner(s) will receive their award plaque from IPEC and COF at the annual Summer IPEC Member Meeting in Washington, DC (if held in-person). Additionally, the winner(s) will present an IPEC webinar discussing their project and findings.

Download the following 2025 materials:
- Nomination Package
- Submission Checklist
- FAQs

More award details can be found at www.ipecollaborative.org/ipe-collaboration-award
Principal Investigator
Please complete the fields below.
Note: This form will only allow you to enter two collaborators after the Principal Investigator. Additional collaborators may be listed in Application Item #5 (Outline of Collaborator Roles).

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1. Principal Investigator (Required.)

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4. Name of Institution/University (Required.)

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5. Name of School/College/Program/Other (Required.)

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6. Title (Required.)

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7. Work Address (Required.)

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8. Phone Number

Collaborator #1
Please complete the fields below.
Note: This form will only allow you to enter two collaborators. Additional collaborators may be listed in Application Item #5 (Outline of Collaborator Roles).

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11. Collaborator #1: Name (Required.)

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13. Collaborator #1: Title (Required.)

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14. Collaborator #1: Institution/University (Required.)

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15. Collaborator #1: School/College/Program/Other (Required.)

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16. Collaborator #1: Work Address (Required.)

Collaborator #2
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Note: This form will only allow you to enter two collaborators. Additional collaborators may be listed in Application Item #5 (Outline of Collaborator Roles).

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17. Collaborator #2: Name (Required.)

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19. Collaborator #2: Institution/University (Required.)

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20. Collaborator #2: School/College/Program/Other (Required.)

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21. Collaborator #2: Work Address (Required.)

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22. Project Title (Required.)

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23. Brief Project Description & Overall Impact
Note: Feel free to take this from your cover sheet. Maximum of 50 words.
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Project Details
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24. Eligibility
Please check all that apply.
Note: All boxes MUST be checked.
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25. Award Criteria Guidelines
Does your group address the following, which is included in your nomination?
Note: All boxes MUST be checked.
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26. Publication
Do you grant permission to IPEC and/or its member associations to publish details regarding your submission?
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Application Materials
Upload the files below. Word documents and PDFs are acceptable formats.
The file size limit per attachment is 25 MB.
Note: You may compress PDF files at sites like smallpdf.com or pdfcompressor.com.

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27. Completed and signed checklist (Required.)

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28. Cover sheet including a brief description with overall impact (Required.)

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29. Two-page project narrative including:
  • Goal of project
  • Public Health Significance (include how community need was determined)
  • Rationale & Approach (including methods, outcome measures & project evaluation)
  • Results/Outcome & plans for publication
*References cited will not count as part of the two page limit
(Required.)

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30. Abbreviated curriculum vitae of Principal Investigator (PI) (Required.)

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31. Outline of collaborator roles (Required.)

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32. Letter of support from Dean/IPE Center Leader (Required.)

OPTIONAL Supplementary Materials
Feel free to supplement your application by including one or more of the items below.
Word documents and PDFs are acceptable formats.
The file size limit per attachment is 25 MB.
Note: You may compress PDF files at sites like smallpdf.com or pdfcompressor.com.

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33. Check all that apply.
Note: We highly encourage including one set of additional files. However, these are not necessary for your application.

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34. Slide deck (12 slides or less)

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35. Video short

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36. Link to online video

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37. Link to website

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