The Healthy Living Center Education & Career Development program ensures a well-prepared and skilled cadre of current and future scientists to conduct impactful research to prevent disease and improve health.
To do this, we offer a wide variety of workshops, seminars, and skills development opportunities for students, early-stage investigators (ESI), and established investigators interested in these areas of research. We’re currently in the planning phases of our signature curriculum, which will include instruction in research methods, community-based research, advances in disease prevention and improvement, as well as experience developing effective grant proposals.
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Services
- Training and education Programs for students, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty
- ESI Navigation services – financial, regulatory, tenure & promotion
- Mentor matching and networking opportunities
- Seminars, workshops, and practical hands-on sessions in research methods, partnership and engagement techniques, and analysis
Programming
Deep South RCMAR - Pilot Grant Award
Faculty
The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)—a collaborative partnership facilitated by the UAB Comprehensive Healthy Living Research Center—invites Letters of Intent to apply for one-year $40,000 pilot grants focusing on the health of older adults living in the Deep South. We are most interested in pilot applications supporting formative work that will form the basis of future intervention studies to address health problems that are more prevalent in the Deep South.
Letter of Intent (LOI) Due: Monday, December 8, 2025 at 11:59PM (CT)
Full Applications Due (by invitation): Monday, January 12, 2026
Health Excellence Research Education Program
Junior Faculty
The Health Excellence Research Education Program (HEREP) is a career development program for early-stage investigators or junior faculty that focuses on education and training in community-engaged and population health research. Participants will strengthen their research and grant-writing skills while gaining mentorship, networking opportunities, and foundational knowledge to advance careers in healthy living research.
Applications Due: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Insight Sessions
Open to All
Insight Sessions: Research Methods and Analysis, a seminar series hosted by the UAB Comprehensive Healthy Living Research Center, co-sponsored by the CARES Center and the Deep South RCMAR. This series will offer insight into innovative quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research and data analysis using actual examples of community-engaged and population health research.
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