Research Partnership Scholars Grant

The grant is on pause for academic year 2025

The Research Partnership Scholars Grant offers funding to support the development of community-academic research partnerships in preparation for research funding opportunities, including investigator-initiated federal, state, or foundation awards, pilot awards, and institutional awards.

Community and academic awardees receive up to $10,000 and receive structural support provided by BU CTSI Community Engagement faculty and staff to learn community engaged research competencies and:

  • Build relationships
  • Explore shared areas of interest
  • Create a partnership structure
  • Co-identify a specific research project
  • Co-develop a research plan for submission to a community-academic pilot grant opportunity
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Awardee Spotlight

Sarah Bagley, MD, MSc (Year 1, 2022) secured a PCORI award, Adolescent SBI vs. Family-based SBI for Adolescent Alcohol Use and continues to work with Deb Schmill and the Becca Schmill Foundation to tackle youth overdose and addiction prevention.

Dr. Bagley also presented her recent publication, A Scoping Review of Youth Overdose Prevention Interventions, at the April 8 Provost Workshop on Addiction. Read the publication

Pablo Buitron de la Vega, MD (Year 3, 2024) launched the first annual Thriving Together Summit on community health collaboration. He shared his experience working with Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores and highlighted work by Transformational Prison Project.

Daniel Jacobson López, PhD & Charles Daniels, Ph.D., M.Div., LICSW, LISW, LCSW (Year 3, 2024) spoke with BU’s The Brink about their new research lab, MenTalK, focused on mental health support for men of color. Read more

Grant Recipients
Year Project title and partners
2024 Empowering Communities, Advancing Health Equity: BMC, Indigenous People’s Network, Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores; Pablo Buitron de la Vega, MD, Mallika Sabharwal, MD
Enhancing Clinical I Training to Support Black Men in Boston: BUSSW, Fathers’ UpLift; Daniel Jacobson López, PhD, MSW, LCSW; Charles Daniels, Ph.D.
2023 Justice Systems Engagement: BUSSW, BMC, Transformational Prison Project; Deborah Goldfarb, MSW, LICSW, Robert Iacoviello
African Immigrant Youth Mental Health Initiative: BU SPH, UHAI for Health; Monica Onyango, RN, MPH, MS, PhD, Jane Kimani, M.Ed, CHES, LADC1
Facilitating Stewardship: BUSM, BMC, Black Church and Mental Health Community Advisory Board; Devin Cromartie, MD, MPH, Janice O. Allen
2022 Improving Interventions to Reduce and Prevent Youth Overdose: BUSM, Becca Schmill Foundation, UMass Memorial; Sarah Bagley, MD, MSc, Deborah Schmill
Improving Mental Health of Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum-Seekers: BUSSW, De Novo; Margaret Lombe, PhD, Mojdeh Rohani, MSW, LICSW
Improving Substance Use Care for Women and Girls in Ghana: BUSM, Pantang Hospital; Kaku So-Armah, PhD, Judith Kokui Azumah, MD