APhA Foundation Incentive Grants: A Thirty-year descriptive review

Cristian Rodriquez; Shanna K O'Connor; Emily Albers

doi:10.1016/j.japh.2025.102323

APhA Foundation Incentive Grants: A Thirty-year descriptive review

J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2025 Jan 4:102323. doi: 10.1016/j.japh.2025.102323. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Cristian Rodriquez¹, Shanna K O'Connor², Emily Albers³

Affiliations

¹ APhA Foundation Executive Fellow, APhA Foundation, Washington, DC.
² Department Head and Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, South Dakota State University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, 2400 S Minnesota Ave, Sioux Falls, SD. Electronic address: shanna.oconnor@sdstate.edu.
³ Senior Manager, Communications and Program Engagement, APhA Foundation, Washington, DC.

PMID: 39761915
DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2025.102323

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this project was to describe the breakdown of project topics and geographic reach of Incentive Grant funded projects from 1994-2024 and summarize the number of patients or survey respondents reached.

Methods: All available reports and supporting documents for the Incentive Grants program were reviewed using the APhA Foundation internal database. Projects were assigned a geographical region using US Census Bureau Divisions, and categorized using focus areas from grant calls-for-proposals. Project impact was evaluated by summing the number of interventions reported in final reports.

Results: 784 projects were conducted and 551 had final reports available. Thirteen project focus areas were identified, with a majority of projects related to cardiovascular disease management (21.1%), pharmacy workflow/processes (14%), and immunizations (13.3%). Projects were conducted most frequently in the United States regions of South Atlantic (27.4%), East North Central (24.2%), and West North Central (14.9%). Of 398 projects with intervention-level data reported (2004-2024), 100,547 interventions were made (86,616 patients impacted and 13,931 survey respondents reached).

Conclusion: The findings of this study serve as a summary of community pharmacy-based research over time, indicating the APhA Foundation Incentive Grant program has likely had a positive influence on community pharmacy-based research as evidenced by number of funded projects, geographic scope, participant impact, and breadth of project focus.

Keywords: Community Pharmacy Services; Pharmacies; Research Design; Research Support.