Book Review

Successful Grant Writing
Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals

Laura N. Gitlin, PhD
Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy and founding Director of the Community and Homecare Research Division (CHORD) at Jefferson College of Health Professions, Thomas Jefferson University.

Kevin J. Lyons, PhD
Associate Dean and Director, Center for Collaborative Research, Jefferson College of Health Professions and the Jefferson College of Graduate Studies, Thomas Jefferson University.

Grant Writing for Health and Human Service Professionals…Novice to Pro.

Successful Grant Writing, Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals, focuses on helping professionals in academic and practice settings who want to expand their knowledge and become more competent in obtaining external support.

The book includes a range of strategies and work models appropriate for health and human service professionals, a different than for traditional research scientists. The authors hope to contribute to the transformation of health care by providing a framework for understanding the funding world and offering definitive and effective strategies for success in obtaining external support.

The five sections of the book include developing a research career and obtaining knowledge of the language and basic components of grantsmanship, developing ideas for funding, writing the proposal, organizing different types of project structures, understanding the review process and managing a grant award when it is received.

The guidelines and suggestions in this book are based on more than 20 years of experience by each of the authors in obtaining external support for education and research programs. Additionally, information was obtained from working with individuals in the health and human services fields as well as from interviews with experienced grant writers and program officers in key federal agencies and foundations.

Publication Date: Fall 2003
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Pages Approximately 305 with index
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Author Bios

Laura N. Gitlin, PhD is Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy and founding Director of the Community and Homecare Research Division (CHORD) at Jefferson College of Health Professions, Thomas Jefferson University. Chord's mission is to develop and test innovative behavioral and environmental approaches to helping older people with physical frailty remain at home, supporting family caregivers, and enhancing life quality of persons with dementia.

Dr. Gitlin is a nationally and internationally recognized and well funded researcher, having received research and training grants from both federal agencies and private foundations, including the Alzheimer's Association and the National Institutes of Health. She currently has over $6 million of committed research grant monies and has helped garner close to $20 million in grant funding over the past 20 years. As part of a current Geriatric Leadership Award funded by the National Institute on Aging, she is establishing an infrastructure for funded aging research at Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Gitlin has also served as a grant reviewer for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the Alzheimer's Association, the National Institute on Aging, the Agency for Health Research and Quality and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, is a co-author of a research text on quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and has two hooks forthcoming.

Dr. Kevin J. Lyons, PhD is Associate Dean in Jefferson College of Health Professions and Jefferson College of Graduate Studies and Director of the Center for Collaborative Research at Thomas Jefferson University. He has over 25 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member and administrator. He has served on the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Health Services Research: Training and Workforce Issues, and has written a white paper for the National Commission on Allied Health.

Additionally, Dr. Lyons is Editor of the Journal of Allied Health, the scholarly journal of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions and has received the J. Warren Perry Distinguished Author Award and been elected a Fellow in that organization.

Dr. Lyons has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings and has been a frequent consultant to universities and government agencies on issues such as research development and program improvement. He has received significant funding from the Bureau of Health Professions to conduct research institutes to advance the research mission of the allied health and chiropractic professions. Dr. Lyons has served on peer review panels for FIPSE, OSERS and NIDRR in the U.S. Department of Education, Bureau of Health Professions and for numerous professional journals.

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