Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center Program (PCDFD)
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- HRSA-26-080
- Agency
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Health Resources and Services Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
- Applications due
- Award size
- $500,000 to $1,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Health
- Eligible applicants
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- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Other
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Points of contact
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- Jesse Ungard jungard@hrsa.gov (301) 443-6249
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) seeks applicants for the Primary Care Dental Faculty Development Center Program (PCDFD), a cooperative agreement to establish a national faculty development hub, with applications due July 8, 2026. HRSA anticipates awarding one cooperative agreement totaling $1,000,000 in FY26, with individual award funding ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000 over five budget periods ending August 31, 2031.
Eligible applicants include accredited dental schools, dental hygiene schools, primary care residency programs, and public or private nonprofit entities. The program requires applicants to establish a center supporting junior faculty through two cohorts of at least 20 trainees each, developing curricula across three focus areas: teaching clinical dentistry, academic scholarship, and program leadership. Deliverables include minimum four face-to-face training sessions per two-year cohort, funding trainee travel to the ADEA annual conference, creating Individual Development Plans tailored to each trainee, and monthly collaboration with HRSA on program implementation. Indirect costs are capped at 8% of modified total direct costs.
Merit review criteria include need, response and approach, performance management, impact, resources and capabilities, and budget justification. Eight funding priorities offering one point each target collaborative projects, discipline retention, student background diversity, formal relationships with federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics, vulnerable population training, cultural competency, placement in underserved areas, and special populations programs.
The opportunity falls under CFDA 93.976, Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Clinician Educator Career Development Awards. The award supports faculty development in primary care dentistry and population-level approaches to oral health outcomes.
Synopsis
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.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
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| HRSA 26-080_Final.pdf |
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