Deadline: 14-May-25
The Pfizer Competitive Program seeks to support organizations who are working hyper-locally with a variety of maternal care professionals involved in the care of mentioned pregnant patients to ensure their access to and delivery of multimodal high quality educational materials and point-of-care (POC) tools to address maternal vaccine confidence, implement evidence-based recommendations and facilitate patient-provider shared clinical decision making.
Area of Interest
- Potential applicants are encouraged to identify and address the educational needs, barriers and gaps for access to maternal immunizations. This may include:
- Development or adaptation of educational resources related to maternal vaccination tailored to the needs of different types of maternal care professionals.
- Point-of-care tools that providers can use to facilitate communication and shared-decision making with patients. All materials should be linguistically and culturally appropriate to the specific community they serve. This may include translating tools to local languages.
Funding Information
- Individual projects requesting up to $25,000 will be considered. The estimated total available budget related to this RFP is $100,000.
Duration
- Maximum project length is 12 months.
Target Audience
- Maternal care professionals in the scope of this program include (but are not limited to) obstetricians, family practice physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, pharmacists, certified midwives, doulas, community health workers.
- Patients and caregivers could be appropriate audiences for point-of-care tools used to facilitate conversations with providers.
Eligibility Criteria
- Geographic Scope: United States
- Applicant Eligibility Criteria:
- The following may apply: medical, dental, nursing, allied health, and/or pharmacy professional schools; healthcare institutions (both large and small); professional organizations/medical societies; medical education companies; and other entities with a mission related to healthcare professional education and/or healthcare improvement.
- Only organizations are eligible to receive grants, not individuals or medical practice groups (i.e., an independent group of physicians not affiliated with a hospital, academic institution, or professional society).
- If the project involves multiple departments within an institution and/or between different institutions/organizations/associations, all institutions must have a relevant role and the requesting organization must have a key role in the project.
- The applicant must be the project/program lead or an authorized designee of such individual (e.g., project/program lead’s grant coordinator).
- The project/program lead must be an employee or contractor of the requesting organization.
- Requesting organization must be legally able to receive award funding directly from Pfizer Inc. They strongly recommend that applicants confirm this with their organization or institution prior to submitting an application. Grants awarded to organizations that are subsequently found to be unable to accept funding directly from Pfizer Inc. may be subject to rescission.
- For projects offering continuing education credit, the requesting organization must be accredited.
For more information, visit Pfizer.