Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center Program (PCDFD)
A cooperative agreement funds accredited dental schools and certain nonprofit health entities to operate a center that develops primary care dentistry faculty, builds leadership skills, and disseminates training and oral health improvement approaches.
⚑ Applicant must be accredited by CODA before September 1, 2026. · Eligible applicants are limited to accredited schools of dentistry, public or nonprofit hospitals, or other public/private nonprofit entities deemed capable by HHS. · Cooperative agreement; expect substantial federal program involvement.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | peripheral portfolio topic: public_health; signature methods: community engaged, policy analysis; social/behavioral work is minor; funds training education, not research (capped); biomedical core — IPPRA health lane is communication/crisis/policy (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 25 weak | technical depth: minor; funds training education (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 15 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
The Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center serves as a resource and training hub to:Support the development of faculty who teach primary care dentistry. Advance community and population-level approaches to assess and improve oral health outcomes. Prepare dental faculty for roles in program leadership. Faculty development will include: increasing the ability to teach clinical dentistry, developing leadership competencies, and dissemination including publishing and presentations.
Eligibility
You can apply if you are an accredited school of dentistry, public or nonprofit hospital, or public or private nonprofit entity which the Secretary of Health and Human Services deems capable of carrying out this grant. You must be accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) before September 1, 2026.
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)
28/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is primarily a workforce and training/cooperative agreement for dental faculty development, with only a modest research/policy component through community and population-level oral health improvement. IPPRA’s survey, behavioral, and policy expertise could support evaluation or dissemination, but oral health is outside its core portfolio and the program is not primarily a research award. A public university could be eligible if it is an accredited dental school/nonprofit entity, but the opportunity still looks only tangentially aligned for IPPRA.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 28 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is primarily a workforce and training/cooperative agreement for dental faculty development, with only a modest research/policy component through community and population-level oral health improvement. IPPRA’s survey, behavioral, and policy expertise could support evaluation or dissemination, but oral health is outside its core portfolio and the program is not primarily a research award. A public university could be eligible if it is an accredited dental school/nonprofit entity, but the opportunity still looks only tangentially aligned for IPPRA. |
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is primarily a dental workforce and faculty-development cooperative agreement, with only a general community/population health angle through oral health outcomes. It does not center on IPPRA’s core strengths in behavioral risk communication, surveys, crisis response, or policy analysis, so the fit is weak. A public university could be eligible only if it meets the CODA accreditation and HHS deeming requirements, but the opportunity is not a strong IPPRA match. |