The Pfizer seeks to support organizations who are working hyper-locally with a variety of maternal care professionals involved in the care of mentioned pregnant patients to ensure their access to and delivery of multimodal highquality educational materials and point-of-care (POC) tools to address maternal vaccine confidence, implement evidence-based recommendations and facilitate patient-provider shared clinical decision making.
Donor Name: Pfizer
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/14/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
There is a medical need to improve maternal immunizations coverage, especially among historically underserved communities that are disproportionately and negatively impacted by vaccine prevantable diseases.
Educational program objectives may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Developing and/or adapting educational resources for maternal care professionals focusing on topics such as: implementing maternal vaccine recommendations, discussion guides for addressing maternal vaccine misinformation, communicating local disease burden, and maternal vaccine safety. All materials should be tailored to the needs and roles of different types of maternal care professionals, both clinicians and non-clinicians.
- Educational approaches, with a strong focus on strategies dedicated for midwives, doulas, and community health workers, are of particular interest, as are resources/trainings developed through partnerships between different maternal care professionals to highlight collaborative care models.
- Creating and/or adapting POC tools tailored to the specific needs of various maternal professionals and the patient populations they serve to facilitate discussions about maternal immunizations, share evidence based information and boost confidence and competence in addressing vaccine hesitancy.
- Educational plans that include the patient’s perspective in the creation of such POC tools are of specific interest.
- Translating materials to meet specific community’s needs; creating or adapting resources to be multimodal, multilingual, and culturally appropriate.
Projects that will be considered for Pfizer support will focus on supporting US-only organizations working hyper-locally, (e.g. at the county level), that work with maternal care professionals serving patients living in areas with limited access to maternal care and/or from historically underserved communities that are disproportionately and negatively impacted by vaccine preventable diseases (African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, Native American/Alaska Native, Middle Eastern/North African).
Project Types and Area of Interest
Potential applicants are encouraged to identify and address the educational needs, barriers and gaps for access to maternal immunizations. This may include:
- Development or adaptation of educational resources related to maternal vaccination tailored to the needs of different types of maternal care professionals.
- Point-of-care tools that providers can use to facilitate communication and shared-decision making with patients. All materials should be linguistically and culturally appropriate to the specific community they serve. This may include translating tools to local languages.
- Individual projects requesting up to $25,000 will be considered. The estimated total available budget related to this RFP is $100,000.
Funding Information
Individual projects requesting up to $25,000 will be considered. The estimated total available budget related to this RFP is $100,000.
Grant Period
Mid-July 2025 to mid-July 2026.
Target Audiences
- Maternal care professionals in the scope of this program include (but are not limited to) obstetricians,
- family practice physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, pharmacists, certified midwives, doulas, community health workers.
- Patients and caregivers could be appropriate audiences for point-of-care tools used to facilitate conversations with providers.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following may apply: medical, dental, nursing, allied health, and/or pharmacy professional schools; healthcare institutions (both large and small); professional organizations/medical societies; medical education companies; and other entities with a mission related to healthcare professional education and/or healthcare improvement.
- Only organizations are eligible to receive grants, not individuals or medical practice groups (i.e., an independent group of physicians not affiliated with a hospital, academic institution, or professional society).
- If the project involves multiple departments within an institution and/or between different institutions / organizations / associations, all institutions must have a relevant role and the requesting organization must have a key role in the project.
- The applicant must be the project/program lead or an authorized designee of such individual (e.g., project/program lead’s grant coordinator).
- The project/program lead must be an employee or contractor of the requesting organization.
- Requesting organization must be legally able to receive award funding directly from Pfizer Inc. They strongly recommend that applicants confirm this with their organization or institution prior to submitting an application. Grants awarded to organizations that are subsequently found to be unable to accept funding directly from Pfizer Inc. may be subject to rescission.
- For projects offering continuing education credit, the requesting organization must be accredited.
For more information, visit Pfizer.
