Quartet Pilot Program
The Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE), Pension Research Council and Boettner Center, the Population Aging Research Center, and the Population Studies Center invite investigators to submit pilot proposals for the annual Quartet Pilot Program competition.
We are not accepting proposals at this time.
Program Overview
Pilot funds are targeted to support small-scale, innovative, or exploratory projects with a duration of one year. Funded projects must have the potential to generate academic publications and priority will be given to projects with potential to develop small-scale or preliminary research findings that would lead to applications for extramural funding, especially to the National Institutes of Health. Total costs are generally limited to $10,000-$20,000 per application; however, larger budgets may be considered if the project is well-suited for generating applications for NIH funding.
Proposals focusing on Population Health, Life-course, and Healthy Aging in the following areas are encouraged:
- New Dynamics of Population Diversity (population composition, migration, race, health inequality, aging and mortality)
- Human Resources and Endowments
- International Population Research
- Population and the Environment
- Big Data and Population Science
- Health Disparities in Aging
- Aging and Household Finance
- Health Care and Long-Term Care in Older Adults
- Cognition and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD)
- Early-Life Conditions and Older Adult Health, Behavior and Well-Being
- Global Aging and Health
- COVID-19 and Aging
Total Quartet Pilot Program costs are generally limited to $10,000-$20,000 per application; however, larger budgets may be considered if the project is well-suited for generating applications for NIH funding.
Eligibility
Any faculty or researcher with an active appointment at the University of Pennsylvania is eligible to submit a proposal. Colleagues at other universities may be co-investigators as long as a member of the Penn research community is the Principal Investigator. Early career scholars are encouraged to apply and priority consideration will be given to their applications.
Funds can be used to support undergraduate or graduate research assistants, summer salary, data collection, analyses of secondary data sets, and publication costs. If your proposed pilot includes a foreign component or if you have any questions, please contact Abby Dolinger at abdol@sas.upenn.edu.
How to Submit a Proposal
We are not accepting proposals at this time. For questions or assistance, contact Abby Dolinger at abdol@sas.upenn.edu.
Other Information
Information about the “Quartet” centers is available at the following websites: