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IMPaCT Award

IMPaCT Award is a grant initiative designed to promote data-driven, technology-enabled innovations that address 21st-century population health challenges.

What is IMPaCT Award?

Conceptualized to promote data driven technology enabled innovations to solve population health challenges of the 21st century. It aims to provide grants to students and recent graduates interested in designing, developing, implementing and evaluating digital health innovations to solve population health challenges

How does it work?

The overarching implementation strategy of the IMPaCT Grant program is to fund and shape exemplary innovation-based proposals which outstands itself beyond the conventional approaches and practices.The ultimate goal of the program is to enhance the role of informatics to address public health challenges. The program emphasizes on bringing innovation to the field of Public Health. It encourages out of box thinking which has to be sustainable and feasible to disseminate.

Problems addressed

FAQs

Problems SMAART® IMPACT seed grant addresses

  • Limited innovation-based models in Public Health

  • A very little motivation for young Public Health Researcher

  • Models that are innovative, but lack sustainability and feasibility

  • Cost-utility of the intervention

  • Weak implementation strategies in innovative ideas

Frequently Asked Questions

Undergraduates/graduates/postgraduates (current students or within 12 months of their degree) with diverse back grounds and an interest in digital Health solutions are eligible to apply for IMPaCT Award with a vision to bring innovation in Public Health.

No, not necessarily. Being an FHTS intern will definitely help you get familiar with the functioning and work principles of the organization but even if you are not interning with us, if you fulfill the mentioned criteria of eligibility, feel free to apply for this grant and pitch the idea of your own.

SMAART® IMPACT Grant is offered four times a year as per the application cycle. If you have applied before and interested to apply again, you definitely can. The selection process is done by our panel-review board and it is purely based on the decisions of our jury after rigorous assessment of the pitched projects.

You will be provided with the set guidelines for pitching the proposal.

No, you are not allowed to change it. We respect the novelty of each idea and follows ethics in research. Hence, it is appropriate to do all the brainstorming beforehand and come up with an idea you are decisive about.

Yes, an auto-generated mail will be sent acknowledging the receipt of your application. It doesn’t guarantee your selection for the fund provided under SMAART® IMPACT Grant.

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