Research Grants
The ISTM Research Award program provides moderate grants (between USD $1,000 and USD $5,000) each year through a peer-review process implemented by the ISTM Research and Grants Committee. These grants are designed to stimulate travel medicine research by supporting comprehensive research projects or, for larger projects, providing support for pilot studies to enable researchers to collect data/test hypotheses so that they can then apply to other agencies for more substantive research grants.
Grant requirements include:
- Research must be travel medicine oriented.
- Application and protocol proposal must be scientifically sound and must be in accordance with international ethical guidelines.
- There must be no conflicts of interest for any of the investigators who apply for research funding.
Applications are invited for projects which can be realistically completed with ISTM grant money alone. As of 2010, there will be an annual research grant award competition, where a maximum of USD $10,000 grant(s) will be awarded. Grant applications will be accepted from 31 October 2009 to 31 March 2010, and awards will be announced in May 2010. A new grant application form is available by clicking here.
Award recipients are expected to provide updates to the committee chair every 6 months. The research project should be completed within 2 years of money receipt, and published within one year of project completion. All awardees are expected to present their data to the scientific community, and are encouraged to publish their findings in the Journal of Travel Medicine.