Published: 11/25/2024

Deadline for Proposals: Monday, January 21, 2025 @ 8pm PST

The Center for Human and Planetary Health at the Woods Institute for the Environment is pleased to announce a call for proposals for Early Career Awards. The Human and Planetary Health Early Career Award program provides research funding from $50,000 up to $200,000 over two years to Stanford early-career faculty members (Assistant Professors, Instructors, or Clinical Educators with Academic Council or University Medical Line standing), for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to identify solutions to pressing problems in human and planetary health, advance equity, and build careers for early career researchers. 

We seek projects that:   

  • Engage in one or more of the Center for Human and Planetary Health’s focus areas:
    • Climate and Health
    • Pollution and Health
    • Disease Ecology in a Changing World
    • Food Systems, Health, and the Environment
  • Address complex human and planetary health issues, are innovative in approach, and have the potential to produce solutions to major challenges.
  • Provide career-building opportunities for junior faculty and instructors to lead on such research projects.
  • Take a cross-cutting, systems-thinking, and multi-disciplinary approach. 
  • Advance and accelerate equity. 
  • Engage with external stakeholders, especially if the research takes place in a community setting.
  • Have the potential for obtaining additional support. 

Key Dates:

  • January 21, 2025: Proposals due
  • May 1, 2025:  Award letters are sent out
  • October 1, 2025: Grants begin. Awards will be for 2 years or less, all grantees are eligible for one no-cost extension if necessary.

Amount of funding: $50,000 – $200,000

This call is open to PI-eligible faculty from all seven schools. Up to two grants will be awarded in the 2025 round of applications. 

Learn more and apply here: https://web.stanford.edu/dept/woods/cgi-bin/seed/woods-seed.php

If you have any questions about your project or research idea, please contact Allison Phillips at ap10@stanford.edu