Dental Faculty Loan Repayment Program (DFLRP)
Funds loan repayment to help CODA-accredited dental and dental hygiene programs recruit and retain full-time faculty in general, pediatric, or public health dentistry.
⚑ Limited to CODA-accredited dental or dental hygiene schools and CODA-accredited residency/advanced education programs in general, pediatric, or public health dentistry · Funds loan repayment for faculty recruitment and retention rather than research
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 35 weak | peripheral portfolio topic: public_health; social/behavioral work is none; funds training education, not research (capped); biomedical core — IPPRA health lane is communication/crisis/policy (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 15 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | technical depth: none; funds training education (capped) |
Description
The purpose of the Dental Faculty Loan Repayment Program is to increase the number of dental and dental hygiene faculty in the workforce by assisting dental and dental hygiene training programs to attract and retain full-time faculty through loan repayment.
Eligibility
You can apply if you are: A Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) accredited program of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry in a public or private, nonprofit dental or dental hygiene school; or a CODA accredited residency or advanced education program in general, pediatric, or public health dentistry.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Health Resources and Services Administration <JUngard@hrsa.gov>
Proposal brief SEE AN EXAMPLE →
A one-page internal memo: fit assessment, submission requirements, document scaffold, and next steps dated back from the deadline — tailored to your project idea if you add one.
Proposal shell · HHS services agencies (SAMHSA / HRSA / CDC / ACF) conventions SEE AN HHS EXAMPLE →
Funder-faithful document skeletons — HHS services agencies (SAMHSA / HRSA / CDC / ACF)'s document set with section headings, page limits, reviewer guidance, and writing prompts; add a project idea to get [DRAFT] starter bullets. Download as .md for Word or Overleaf.
Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
5/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a workforce support program for dental faculty loan repayment, not a research, evaluation, or data infrastructure opportunity. It has only a loose public-health connection and no meaningful social/behavioral research component that IPPRA would lead; public university eligibility exists, but the opportunity is operational rather than research-focused.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 5 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a workforce support program for dental faculty loan repayment, not a research, evaluation, or data infrastructure opportunity. It has only a loose public-health connection and no meaningful social/behavioral research component that IPPRA would lead; public university eligibility exists, but the opportunity is operational rather than research-focused. |
| 2026-07-06 | 10 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a workforce/education support program for dental and dental hygiene faculty, not a research funding opportunity, and it does not address IPPRA’s core social/behavioral policy intersections. The only distant overlap is public health, but there is no meaningful behavioral, communication, community, or policy research component for IPPRA to lead. Eligible applicants are CODA-accredited dental schools or residency/advanced education programs, so a public university could participate only if it houses such a program; otherwise fit is very limited. |