Grant Making

One of the most powerful ways HRiA takes on health challenges is through its grant making services. We help to identify individuals who are uniquely positioned through their ideas or skills to make a difference in critical areas. Working with public and private funding sources, we bring together those who possess the ability to make change with those willing to invest in it.

The scope of our grant making capabilities is virtually limitless, catalyzing a wide array of scientific investigation and community programs. Our client's biomedical research grant programs span the continuum from basic laboratory investigation to new treatment discoveries for age-related macular degeneration, brain tumors, eating disorders, and other devastating diseases. Our public health grant programs include a statewide initiative to overcome epidemic obesity, a youth tobacco prevention movement, and a physician recruitment program.

Our biomedical research grant programs engage internationally recognized investigators who serve on our independent scientific review committees to critique and discuss more than 1000 grant applications and research progress reports each year. Our public health grant and fellowship programs utilize comparable standards to allocate resources in areas that will best improve health status. In 2009, our clients' programs awarded more than $21 million in funds to scientists and community health programs across the United States, Israel, and Europe.

With declines in government funding, private philanthropic dollars play an increasingly important role in stimulating research and supporting community programs. Our clients are individuals or organizations whose commitment to innovation contributes meaningfully to advancing health. Together, we work to identify a target niche and then implement a customized grant program that maintains the highest of standards and attracts the best in the field.

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Sally McNagny Sally McNagny, MD, MPH, FACP
Vice President
617.279.2240 ext. 704

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Sally McNagny Since 2001, Dr. McNagny has served as vice president of HRiA's Medical Foundation division, where she oversees biomedical research grant making and life sciences consulting. Dr. McNagny also serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. McNagny holds a BS in biology from Stanford University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed her medical residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She served on the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine for 12 years, where she was principal investigator for the Emory site of the NIH Women's Health Initiative and other clinical research trials in the field of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy. She also conducted health services research studies in access to care, high blood pressure management, and smoking cessation. Her research articles have been published in leading journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Currently, Dr. McNagny serves on the Board and is Chair-Elect of the Health Research Alliance, a membership organization of non-governmental funders of medical research and training whose members award more than $1.5 billion annually.
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Steve Ridini Steve Ridini, EdD
Vice President
617.279.2240 ext. 234

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Steve Ridini Steven Ridini, EdD, is vice president of the Community Health division at HRiA. He brings 25+ years of experience working in public health within the US and internationally. He has extensive experience in non-profit management and administration, with a professional background spanning research and evaluation, strategic planning and organizational development, grant making, and coalition building.

Dr. Ridini earned a bachelor's degree in biology and political science from Boston College followed by a master's in public health and a doctorate in education-both from Harvard University. He has served as lecturer at Harvard, and has authored two books on social change, Health and Sexuality Education in Schools: The Process of Community Change and Grassroots Social Action: Lessons in People Power Movements.

Prior to joining HRiA in 1998, Dr. Ridini was the director of the Massachusetts Prevention Center in Framingham, MA and education director at PRIDE, Inc., in Atlanta, GA. He also worked with U.S.A.I.D. and the Ministries of Health and Education in Belize to develop a national drug education curriculum.
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