Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Program

For programmatic or technical questions:
Jesse Ungard
301.443.6249
jungard@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Chase Young
301.945.0901
cyoung@hrsa.gov

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This program will provide a grant for a single entity to serve as a Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center (Center) to support the career development of junior primary care dental faculty through training, development activities, and potential sub-awards. Rural populations and populations with limited access to services are a program priority.

The Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center will serve as a resource and training hub to:

• Support the development of faculty who teach primary care dentistry
• Advance community and population-level approaches to assess and improve oral health outcomes
• Prepare dental faculty for roles in program leadership

Faculty development includes increasing the ability to teach clinical dentistry, developing leadership competencies, and dissemination including publishing and presentations.

A detailed list of program requirements and expectations is provided in the application instructions.

Eligible applicants include entities that have programs in dental or dental hygiene schools, or approved residency or advanced education programs in the practice of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry, which may include dental schools, or public or private nonprofit hospitals, or public or private nonprofit entities that are capable of carrying out the project.

Eligible applicants include:

• Public, state-controlled, and private institutions of higher education
• Nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS

Award ceiling: $1,000,000 per year
Award floor: $500,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Number of awards: 1

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.