Application Requirements and Focus Areas
The Innovation for Health (IFH) program is a partnership between OSF HealthCare and Bradley University focused on developing practical solutions to health challenges in Central Illinois. The program supports the creation of new tools, technologies, and methods that remove barriers to care, promote health education, and advance healthcare training and community outreach.
The IFH program is open to BU faculty and OSF HealthCare clinicians. Proposals must identify at least two co-investigators: one BU faculty member and one OSF HealthCare clinician. Selected projects will receive one year of funding up to $50,000 with the option to re-apply for additional funding after the project is successfully completed.
Looking for a collaborator? We can help you find one here. Matching for the summer of 2025 will close on July 2nd, 2025.
As part of this arrangement, multidisciplinary teams will develop solutions in the following focus areas:
- Medical Visualization
- Healthcare Analytics
- Data Security
- Health Literacy
- Precision Medicine
- Social Determinants of Health
- Rural Health
- Cancer-Related Research
- Translational Research to Community Health
- Sustainability in Healthcare
- Strategic Focus Addendum
Please see below for additional application requirements:
- List of Required Fields
- Scoring Guidelines
- Budget Template/Example
- Budget Justification Template/Requirements
*Per Bradley University (BU) policy, all proposals, contracts, and agreements for sponsored research must be internally reviewed before submission to an external organization. Therefore, on or before the IFH proposal deadline, the BU project lead must submit the project narrative, budget, and budget justification via DocSoup to ensure that all responsible parties agree to the submission. If requests for document modification and the BU approval process are not completed within five business days after the IFH proposal deadline, the proposal will be returned without review.
Innovation for Health (Summer 2025)
Application Requirements and Focus Areas
The Innovation for Health (IFH) program is a partnership between OSF HealthCare and Bradley University focused on developing practical solutions to health challenges in Central Illinois. The program supports the creation of new tools, technologies, and methods that remove barriers to care, promote health education, and advance healthcare training and community outreach.
The IFH program is open to BU faculty and OSF HealthCare clinicians. Proposals must identify at least two co-investigators: one BU faculty member and one OSF HealthCare clinician. Selected projects will receive one year of funding up to $50,000 with the option to re-apply for additional funding after the project is successfully completed.
Looking for a collaborator? We can help you find one here. Matching for the summer of 2025 will close on July 2nd, 2025.
As part of this arrangement, multidisciplinary teams will develop solutions in the following focus areas:
- Medical Visualization
- Healthcare Analytics
- Data Security
- Health Literacy
- Precision Medicine
- Social Determinants of Health
- Rural Health
- Cancer-Related Research
- Translational Research to Community Health
- Sustainability in Healthcare
- Strategic Focus Addendum
Please see below for additional application requirements:
- List of Required Fields
- Scoring Guidelines
- Budget Template/Example
- Budget Justification Template/Requirements
*Per Bradley University (BU) policy, all proposals, contracts, and agreements for sponsored research must be internally reviewed before submission to an external organization. Therefore, on or before the IFH proposal deadline, the BU project lead must submit the project narrative, budget, and budget justification via DocSoup to ensure that all responsible parties agree to the submission. If requests for document modification and the BU approval process are not completed within five business days after the IFH proposal deadline, the proposal will be returned without review.