APhA Foundation Incentive Grants

Trevor Shaw
tshaw@aphanet.org

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation Incentive Grants offer pharmacists seed money to implement or support an innovative patient care service within their pharmacy practice. Grants focus on ambulatory pharmacy-based innovation.

The current application cycle offers 2 types of grants.

Residents and their Preceptors Incentive Grant - Preference will be given to projects with a focus in:

• Innovative payment models
• Social determinants of health
• Transitions of care
• Access and pharmacy deserts
• Medication safety
• Pharmacy workplace conditions
• Mental and behavioral health
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular care
• Maternal health
• Substance use disorder
• Test and treat
• Interoperability/data integration
• Patient care service implementation
• Role of the pharmacy technician
• Role of pharmacists in primary care

Innovation in Immunization Practices Incentive Grant - Focus areas include:

• Enhancing vaccine confidence among patients
• Increasing access to/uptake of vaccines within identified populations: urban, suburban, and rural across the lifespan
• Optimizing engagement of pharmacy team members in the provision of immunization-related services
• Advance usage of Immunization Information System (IIS) for immunization assessment and enhanced immunization delivery methods
• Collaboration with other members of the immunization community to increase public knowledge, understanding, acceptance and receipt of recommended vaccines

Pharmacists, students, and community pharmacy residents that are active members of APhA.

$1,000

A link to the online application portal is available on the program website.