Overview
The Health Studies Fund (HSF) is an endowment established in 1994 to strengthen research within the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine. It supports DFPM faculty, staff scientists, and post‑doctoral fellows as they develop their research careers, build effective research teams, and pursue extramural funding opportunities.
The fund was created by F. Marian Bishop, PhD, a pioneering leader in academic family medicine. Dr. Bishop served as department chair from 1984 to 1994 and was the first woman to lead a department in the University of Utah School of Medicine. Widely known as “the mother of academic family medicine,” she helped shape the field nationally and earned numerous awards for her contributions. Her legacy continues through multiple honors named after her and through the Health Studies Fund she established to advance research for future generations.
Award Opportunities
Award Cycle: Annual
Deadline: First Monday of June by 4 p.m. MT
This $60,000 award is made annually and honors F. Marian Bishop, PhD, MSPH, who served as the second Chair of DFPM (1984–1994). The award is restricted to faculty (0.75+ FTE) with primary appointment in DFPM. Priority is given to proposals that will (1) prepare for or enhance future submissions for federal funding, particularly NIH funding, (2) advance research in public health or primary care, and (3) involve faculty from both divisions in DFPM.
Award Cycle: Annual
The Clinician Scholars Program is a partnership between the DFPM's HSF and the divisions (1) to support and increase scholarship by clinician faculty; (2) to increase collaboration between clinician and research faculty and across DFPM’s two divisions; and (3) to involve clinician faculty on research grants in various roles (e.g., consultant, co-investigator).
Award Cycle: Triannual
Application
Deadlines: First Monday business day of September, January, and May by 4 p.m. MT
Preference is given to projects that have a strong likelihood of directly leveraging extramural funding and/or that promote intradepartmental collaboration.
Award Cycle: Triannual
Application
Deadlines: First Monday business day of September, January, and May by 4 p.m. MT
Projects that have academic value, promote collaboration and career development, but that are unlikely to result directly in substantial extramural funding are appropriate for this award.
Award Cycle: Triannual
Application
Deadlines: First Monday business day of September, January, and May by 4 p.m. MT
The award is open to all DFPM faculty or postdocs who demonstrate potential and interest to develop a research career and who have not received external research funding in the past. Only one award per lifetime is available under this mechanism. The applicant must identify a DFPM experienced faculty researcher mentor (preferably one who has current extramural funding) for the award. While other collaborators may be involved in the research, the mentor must be DFPM faculty. A minimum of $1,000 of the budget must go to support the mentor. This will be paid as a stipend to their development activity.
Award Cycle: Ongoing
Application
Awards of up to $1,500 each are made toward publication fees of a peer-reviewed publication that is accepted in a journal that is indexed in PubMed or Scopus. Awards can be applied for at the time of journal submission but will not be awarded unless an article is accepted for publication. First author or senior author must be DFPM faculty, postdoctoral fellow, or trainee. If the eligible author is a postdoc or trainee, then at least one other author must be DFPM faculty. Maximum of one award per DFPM first/senior author per academic year. No deadlines; considered on first-come, first-served basis. For the open access publication award, the final report is the copy of the published paper. If there is no published paper, the award funds must be returned. Considered on a rolling basis, with no deadline.
Award Cycle: Ongoing
Request Form
Supports faculty and investigators who would like to strengthen their research grant narratives with a qualified external research reviewer. Reviewers aim to improve proposal content, structure and clarity, and to identify weakness and gaps in logic that can be corrected prior to submission