Shipley CFP | Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning

The Shipley Academic Innovation Fund supports a broad range of innovative initiatives across the university that foster creativity, collaboration, and meaningful impact in teaching and learning.

Health Education Innovation Grants

This call for proposals is focused on advancing innovation in health education through interdisciplinary collaboration and convergent approaches to complex health and healthcare challenges.

We invite proposals that bring together expertise across disciplines and professional programs — including medicine, biology, data science, rehabilitation sciences, public health, occupational therapy, engineering, and related fields — to explore new models of teaching, learning, partnership, and knowledge exchange. Projects should demonstrate creativity, collaboration, and the potential to generate transformative impact within and across health-related educational contexts.

We seek proposals that advance bold, interdisciplinary approaches to health innovation and education.

Projects should demonstrate potential impact in one or more of the following areas:

Interdisciplinary Health Innovation. Advancing collaboration across disciplines, faculties, and professional programs to address complex health and healthcare challenges in novel ways.
Transformative Teaching and Learning Models. Designing, piloting, or scaling innovative educational approaches that rethink how learners engage with health, science, technology, data, and human-centered care.
Cross-Sector and Convergent Collaboration. Creating meaningful connections among fields such as medicine, biology, data science, engineering, rehabilitation sciences, public health, social work, occupational therapy, and related disciplines to generate new forms of inquiry and learning.
Innovation Capacity and Scholarly Experimentation. Supporting faculty and learner capacity to test emerging ideas, pedagogies, technologies, and partnership models in health education and innovation.
Inclusive and Future-Ready Health Education. Advancing learning environments and educational practices that foster inclusion, belonging, accessibility, and responsiveness to evolving societal and healthcare needs.
Strategic and Institutional Impact. Aligning with university strategic priorities while contributing scalable models, sustainable partnerships, or broader cultural change across programs and units.

Awardees will be designated Shipley Health Education Innovation Fellows, featured in internal communications, and invited to present their projects at an end-of-year Innovation Showcase.

Information Session

Watch the recorded info session above for a guided walkthrough of the current call for proposals and application requirements from the Institute team.

Grant Types

Seed Grants ($10K)

Early-stage or pilot initiatives, course/module redesigns, proof-of-concept projects

Innovation Grants ($25K)

Larger-scale or program-level projects with measurable outcomes and clear potential for broader adoption

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Eligibility

Priority Areas

Proposals should address a significant educational challenge or opportunity in health education and incorporate digital innovation.

Example Areas

Projects that focus solely on established teaching best practices without a meaningful digital component and opportunity for greater impact at scale will not be competitive.

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Expected Outputs

Each funded project should incorporate at least a few of the following:

Application Requirements

Description of the teaching and learning challenge/opportunity
Proposed academic innovation
Budget rationale
Target learners
Anticipated impacts
Implementation plan and timeline
Assessment/evaluation plan
Potential for scaling/dissemination
Letter of support from department chair(s)/dean(s)/BU leadership

Application Details

Project Title
Please include a concise, descriptive title that captures the innovation or theme of the project.

Name
Title
Email
School/College
Dept/Office
Collaborator names, titles, and email addresses
Anticipated project timeframe
Requested funding amount

Proposal Summary
Please provide a high-level summary of the project that briefly addresses 1) the educational challenge/opportunity your project addresses, 2) the proposed innovation, 3) the target learners, 4) the expected impact, and 5) your proposed project timeline. (50-100 words)

Teaching & Learning Challenge/Opportunity
Please describe the educational context/background of your project and the educational challenge or opportunity your project addresses. (150-300 words)

Proposed Academic Innovation
Please describe your proposed initiative, being sure to address how your project advances academic innovation across disciplines, promotes cross-sector and interdisciplinary collaboration, and responds to the evolving demands and advancements in health education. (150-300 words)

Budget Rationale
Please describe the anticipated costs/expenditures you expect to implement this project. Please clarify if any technology expenses include one-time license fees. (50-100 words)

Target Learners
Please describe the identified target learners for your proposed innovation, including any specific demographic details you may have available (e.g., first-year students, historically marginalized populations, majors, etc.). (50-100 words)

Anticipated Impacts
Please describe anticipated impacts you expect your project might have, being sure to address impact in the following areas as applicable, as well as any others that may be pertinent. (100-200 words)

Projects should contribute to one or more of the following:

Catalyzing interdisciplinary collaboration in health innovation
Advancing novel or experimental approaches to teaching and learning
Bridging health, science, technology, and data-informed practice
Creating scalable or transferable models for educational innovation
Strengthening inclusive, collaborative, and future-ready learning environments
Building institutional capacity for convergent and cross-sector innovation

Project Implementation & Timeline
Please provide a project plan of actions you plan to take to implement this project, identifying project milestones and a detailed overall timeline. (100-200 words)

Assessment/Evaluation Plan
Please provide a detailed assessment/evaluation plan for how success will be measured, including what evidence you will collect (i.e., student feedback, learning data, survey data, peer review, etc.). (100-200 words)

Prospects for Scaling/Dissemination
Please describe your plan for sustaining the impact of the project beyond the life of the grant, addressing what strategies you will use to sustain and build upon the project to contribute to ongoing academic innovation, and how this work will continue to benefit students, faculty or other stakeholders at BU. (50-100 words)

DEADLINE: July 15, 2026

Please check back soon for application submission link!

Call for Proposals

Health Education Innovation Grants

Information Session

Grant Types

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Eligibility

Health Education Faculty, Leaders, Program Directors

School/Department Individuals or Teams

Project Timeline

Priority Areas

Example Areas

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Expected Outputs

Transferability

Replicability

Demonstration

Dissemination

Application Requirements

Application Details

DEADLINE: July 15, 2026