We invite all undergraduate, graduate, and medical students to submit their proposals using our online application. All proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. on April 4th, 2025. Awardees will be notified of the award decisions in early May. You can visit our application form for full proposal instructions and the proposal form. Please email sph-academics@brown.edu with any questions.

Key dates

• April 4th, 2025: Proposals due
• Results announced in early May.

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The Nora Kahn Piore Award was established in recognition of the lifetime work of health policy expert, Nora Kahn Piore through the generosity of Margot Piore Onek, MD ’64, P’91 and Joseph N. Onek. These awards are made annually to support undergraduate, graduate, and medical students who wish to undertake research in health services, with a focus on health status and access to health care by people experiencing poverty and who are medically underserved.

The award provides funding of up to $3,000 for research, travel, and related costs.

Prior examples of research expenses include the purchase of access to data, transcription services, travel to a research meeting, open-access publication fees, or research participation fees. Student stipends are not permissible.

• Gray Babbs:
  Quality Disparities in Chronic Disease Care between Cisgender and Transgender Medicare Beneficiaries
• Talia Benheim:
  Effects of Nursing Home Contract Staffing on Care Quality in Long-Stay Residents
• Em Balkan:
  The impact of Medicare Advantage enrollment on beneficiaries with disabilities
• Galya Walt:
  The Role of Harm Reduction Organizations in Supporting Pregnant and Postpartum People using Drugs
• Rachel Rosales:
  The Effects of Behavioral Health Integration in Medicaid Managed Care on Access to Mental Health Services for Adolescents

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