Grants & Awards Received by the AAMC
The AAMC receives external funding from the federal government and private foundations for work in specific areas related to the AAMC’s mission and strategic plan. Awards received and information on the projects they support appear below. Questions about the AAMC’s Grants Office or the awards listed below may be directed to Adrianne Fielding, Director II, Grants and Executive Operations.
Federal Grants
Health and Human Services: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“AAMC Improving Clinical and Public Health Outcomes through National Partnerships to Prevent and Control Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Threats” has provided a total of $4,539,543 over the course of four years through a cooperative agreement that supports strategies to build confidence in COVID-19 vaccines among health care personnel and communities that are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Principal Investigator: Rosha McCoy, MD, Senior Director, Advancing Clinical Leadership and Quality
Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health
“Faculty Roster” is a five-year, $3,250,726 contract (whose costs are split 50:50 between NIH and the AAMC) that supports a continuously updated database with comprehensive information on the educational, employment, and demographic backgrounds of faculty members at medical schools in the United States.
Project Director: Hershel Alexander, PhD, Senior Director, Data Operations and Services
“AAMC Career Development Program for Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) Scholars” has provided a total of $1,300,827 for the first four years of a five-year cooperative agreement that supports a multichannel education program for cohorts of National Institutes of Health (NIH)-awarded K99/R00 scholars.
Principal Investigator: Jodi Yellin, PhD, Director II, Science Policy
"TRANSforming Bio-Medical Research & Academic Faculty through Opportunity, TRaining, & Mentorship (TRANSFORM)" is a subaward through the University of Pittsburgh that provides $85,645 for the first two years of an expected five-year cooperative agreement, to partner in the creation of a longitudinal faculty career and leadership development program that builds upon the success of the existing AAMC Mid-Career Minority Faculty Leadership Development Program.
Investigators: Norma Poll-Hunter, PhD, Senior Director of Human Capital Portfolio
Foundation Grants
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Funding from the foundation, such as a recent three-year $45,000 grant, supports the annual Arnold P. Gold Foundation in Medicine Award that is awarded at Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting.
Program Contact: Monique Mauge, Director, Constituent Engagement
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
“Black Men in Medicine Illinois” is a multiyear $300,000 award to support pilot programs within Illinois in partnership with the Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine, which is a joint effort of the AAMC and the National Medical Association’s Action Collaborative.
Project lead: Norma Poll-Hunter, PhD, Senior Director, Human Capital Portfolio
The California Wellness Foundation
“Diversity and Inclusion Culture & Climate Self-Assessment Tool and Scorecard” is a multiyear $325,000 grant to develop and pilot a Diversity and Inclusion Culture & Climate Self-Assessment tool and scorecard at eight urban-based, undergraduate public universities and graduate medical and health professional schools in California, and inform legislative and educational policymakers about the pilot as a strategy for increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in the health care workforce.
Project Director: Taniecea Mallery, PhD, Senior Director, Organizational Inclusion and Development
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
“Art of Diagnosis” is a two-year $16,000 subaward through the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine that provides advisory support to medical students completing projects on the “Art of Diagnosis.”
Program Contact: Lisa Howley, PhD, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation
“Building Learning Health Systems at the Point of Care” is a multiyear $140,000 award to support an evaluation of Donaghue Greater Value Portfolio awardees, a convening to share models of learning health system design, and related activities.
Project Director: Keith Horvath, MD, Senior Director, Clinical Transformation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Summer Health Professions Education Program” is an annual award of approximately $1,000,000 to support technical assistance and direction to help increase diversity in health fields, as its predecessor, the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, did for more than 24,000 students.
Project Director: Norma Poll-Hunter, PhD, Senior Director, Human Capital Portfolio
“Indigenous Health, Education, and Resource Taskforce (IHEART): Building Capacity for American Indian and Alaska Native Health Workforce Development” is a three-year $998,074 award that supports a national American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN)-led collaborative to address the scarcity of the AIAN health workforce by creating "a network of networks" based on the strengths of Indigenous knowledge and ways.
Co-Principal Investigators: Norma Poll-Hunter, PhD, Senior Director, Human Capital Portfolio, and Mary J. Owen, MD, Associate Dean of Native American Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, representing the Association of American Indian Physicians
The Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute
Chicago-Pilot – Building a Premedical Advising System to Advance Workforce Diversity” is a 16-month $95,400 award to support the development, planning, and implementation of a pilot project in association with the Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine, which is a joint effort of the AAMC and the National Medical Association’s Action Collaborative.
Project lead: Norma Poll-Hunter, PhD, Senior Director, Human Capital Portfolio
The Sandra & Arnold Gold Humanism Research Fund
The Fund regularly provides funding to host dinner meetings and receptions during Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting to connect and inform diverse stakeholders who are active researchers investigating the role of humanism within medicine and medical education.
Program Contact: Lisa Howley, PhD, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
Financial Conflict of Interest in Public Health Service-Funded Research
The AAMC has adopted a policy to recognize, disclose, manage, and report financial conflicts of interest related to Public Health Service-funded research. To request information concerning any existing significant financial interest related to PHS-funded research that constitutes a financial conflict of interest, please contact Frank R. Trinity, Chief Legal Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges, 655 K Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001, legal@aamc.org.