Eligibility

• The Principal Investigator (PI) (or co-PIs) on the application must have a formal affiliation with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Children’s) and be engaged in child health research.
• Investigators with no or limited funding for the project of interest are eligible.
• Projects must have well-defined aims and testable hypotheses.
• Funding from this subsidy may only be used for CHIC data extraction services.
• The proposed project should strive to lead to a published manuscript and/or grant funding
• Proposals that are not awarded are eligible for resubmission in the next cycle.

Timeline

We review applications in the following cycles:

Evaluation

Each proposal will be evaluated (in relative priority order) on:

Potential for future funding ​

• Named grant mechanism.
• Substantial funding expected in subsequent application for CHIC (i.e. >$25K)
• Funding track record or named mentorship from faculty with funding track record.

Reusable platform that grows CHIC capabilities

• Enables new capabilities that may be used across many projects.

Trainee/early career development

• Ex: Junior faculty applying for career development award; Educationally required project to graduate​

Reputation growth for CHIC team

• Authorship opportunities for CHIC team members to improve their ability to support and demonstrate expertise.

Demonstration of use of self-service analytics tools to the extent possible

• Children’s Data Stewards Program – Data Governance & Data Literacy videos
• SlicerDicer Learning
• Participation in Children’s Data Office Hours program (contact: data@choa.org)

Leadership in multicenter collaborations

• Children’s is a primary or very early site in a multicenter collaboration; participation contributes substantially to national pre-eminence.

Alignment with Children’s mission

• Direct link to sponsored Children’s system improvement area of interest.

Division/Department Support

• Letter of Support demonstrating leadership interest in the project.