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Budget project specific travel such as trips to professional meetings to present project findings or promote the project.Travel cost formulas are available in the Foundation’s Budget Guidelines. However, we encourage you to budget less than the Foundation’s travel formulas when possible.Temple University will reimburse grantees for the cost of travel to program events, such as the annual meeting, so those travel costs should not be included in your budget.
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PHLR has not set a specific number of grants to be awarded in each category and does not have a preference. However, it is anticipated that more short-term studies will be funded because the program is looking to support studies that can produce actionable evidence within the time frames specified by the call for proposals (CFP). Therefore, short-term proposals are encouraged.
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Applicants may contact the helpdesk at phlr@temple.edu or (215) 204-2134 with questions about their proposals. Questions by e-mail are preferred in order to facilitate accurate forwarding of the question to the appropriate staff member. Please include institution and contact information in every communication. If selected as a grantee the applicant will be assigned a program officer who can be contacted. Currently, all questions need to go through the helpdesk to ensure that all responses are captured and posted on the FAQs.
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Yes, the slides from the presentation will be available on the Resource page of the program Web site, www.PublicHealthLawResearch.org.
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NPO stands for national program office. For the Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program, the NPO is located at the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
