AHA’s Second Century Early Faculty Independence Awards will support highly promising investigators in the early years of their first professional appointment as they address one of several possible areas of critical, emerging priority. Suggested thematic areas of research focus include:

• Implementation Research: Implementation research is scientific inquiry into questions concerning implementation – the act of carrying an intention into effect, which in health research can be policies, programs, or individual practices (collectively called interventions)
• Technology-driven health care and diagnostics, including artificial intelligence/machine learning approaches, telemedicine, biosensors and wearables
• Novel and emerging therapeutics, including genome editing therapies, regenerative therapies, and bioengineered foods
• Environmental impacts on health, including direct and indirect effects
• Research and solutions for issues affecting aging populations and the shrinking healthcare workforce

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