Successful Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals, Second Edition (Gitlin, Successful Grant Writing) [Paperback]

Laura N. Gitlin PhD (Author), Kevin J. Lyons PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0826192610 | ISBN-13: 978-0826192615 | Edition: 2

Designed for health and human service professionals in academic and practice settings, this book will assist inexperienced grant writers as well as those who have been successful but would like to expand their knowledge of grantsmanship skills. The authors provide a framework for understanding the funding world and offer a range of effective strategies and work models for success in obtaining external support. The appendices include a selection of common questions with their answers, a list of key acronyms, and a list of web pages. Second Edition topics include:

A Research Career Trajectory

Pilot Research Programs

Which Ideas are Hot and Which are Not

The NIH Modular Format

Elements of a Concept Paper

Managing the Grant Award

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

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 books forthcoming.

Dr. Kevin J. Lyons, PhD is Associate Dean in the College of Health Professions and the 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. In addition, he is Editor of the Journal of Allied Health: The scholarly journal of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, 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 and 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, the Bureau of Health Professions, and for numerous professional journals.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 2 edition (December 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826192610
• ISBN-13: 978-0826192615
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,301,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some of the information other such books leave out..., January 25, 2006

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C. L. Beck "celbee" (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Successful Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals, Second Edition (Gitlin, Successful Grant Writing) (Paperback)

Here's a book that I wish I had read several years ago...there are many details of the grant process that experienced grantwriters don't share-either they don't know or they forgot that others don't know. This book covers basic principles of grantwriting in a clear and direct style. The target audience is new or novice grantwriters (such as graduate students, postdocs, or junior faculty) in the fields of health and human services. Thus, the examples in the book are in those areas, however, there is plenty of information that is relevant to grantwriting in the biomedical sciences. The authors usually point out relevant differences. I learned things I didn't know about how RFPs are developed, when and how to contact a program director, how to interpret the pink sheets, and strategies for resubmissions (including how to decide whether or not to resubmit).

The book covers three areas that most grantwriting books omit: 1) strategies on how each individual grant should be part of an overall career strategy; 2) discussion and outline of a research career trajectory as one progresses from novice to intermediate to advanced and expert; and 3) information on assembling an effective grantwriting team for program project grants and multidisciplinary proposals. This third area is becoming increasingly important as the trend toward translational and group science grows. (I will re-read this section the next time I am asked to work on a training or program grant.)

This would be a great book for the bookshelf in a lab or in a grad student or postdoc resource center.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not that good, June 27, 2005

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K. Kransler (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Successful Grant Writing: Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals, Second Edition (Gitlin, Successful Grant Writing) (Paperback)

This book is not really that good of a guide. Very simplistic in approach and mostly common sense. Their guide seems to be geared towards educational program start-ups and nothing else. If you are in the biomedical sciences, this book is a waste.