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2025 Cycle 1 Funding Recipients - BD-GOG

2025 Cycle 1 Grant and Fellowship Recipients

View the recipients of PAF’s 2025 Breitman-Dorn Research Fellowship and Global Outreach Grant Program.

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2025 Scholarship Recipients

Meet the 44 recipients of PAF’s 2025 student scholarships!

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Opening Soon: Cycle 2 Funding Opportunities

PAF’s second 2025 application cycle will open July 14, featuring multiple grant and award opportunities for PAs and PA students.

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PArtnership to Improve Student Mental Health

Meet the PA fellows selected to participate in the new PArtnership to Improve Student Mental Health Program, supported by the RBC Foundation.

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All of Us Student Research Scholars

Meet the 2024 All of Us Student Research Scholars! The awardees will produce research projects using data from the NIH All of Us Research Program.

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The Physician Associate Foundation

Since 1977, the Physician Associate Foundation has worked to promote better health for PAs, students, their patients, and the communities they serve.

Our Vision and Mission

A group of physician associates/physician assistants

Events and Resources

PA Resource: Cognitive Assessment Toolkit

Identify cognitive impairment in its early stages with the Cognitive Assessment Toolkit. Healthcare providers across specialties and practice settings will find the resources and develop skills they need to conduct cognitive assessments.

PAF Women in Philanthropy

The mission of Women in Philanthropy (WIP) is to engage and empower a diverse group of women with opportunities to collaborate and support PAF. Learn more and view our Friends, Change-Makers, and Champions.

Vital Minds

The Vital Minds podcast explores topics of relevance to the PA and healthcare provider audience, ranging from mental health to obesity to pain management and more. Each episode explores nuances of the featured subject and provides tips and resources PAs can put into practice to benefit patients.

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What We Do

As the philanthropic arm of the American Academy of PAs, the Physician Associate Foundation provides support to PAs and PA students through grants for PA-led health projects, scholarships for future PA leaders, and patient education tools. Our programs, guided by our mission, help PAs and PA students make an impact – with their patients, in their communities, and for their profession, locally and worldwide.

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$2.3M

Scholarship funding awarded to PA students

People reached through our mental health and SUD programs since 2018

$1.5M

Programmatic support over the last decade

Our Partners