IPR.Global News
IPR.Global Honored with 2025 NAP Interprofessional Group Recognition Award
March 2025 – We are honored to share that IPR.Global has been recognized as the recipient of the 2025 National Academies of Practice (NAP) Interprofessional Group Recognition Award. This prestigious national award recognizes an organization whose work has meaningfully advanced interprofessional healthcare collaboration, impacting education, research, and practice.
Presented at the 2025 NAP Annual Meeting and Forum, the award acknowledges exceptional interdisciplinary initiatives that exemplify team-based, patient-centered care. The selection of IPR.Global reflects its leadership in building a global movement that promotes collaboration, innovation, and quality outcomes in healthcare through interprofessional education and collaborative practice, and research (IPECP).
At the heart of this achievement is Dr. Hossein Khalili, President of IPR.Global and Senior Associate Dean at the WSSU School of Health Sciences. Under his leadership, IPR.Global has become a vital platform for international scholarship and evidence-informed health policy, fostering a vibrant global network of professionals dedicated to breaking silos and transforming systems.
This recognition strengthens our resolve to continue bridging professions, borders, and communities to shape the future of healthcare.
ASAHP Awards IPR.Global with Grant to Launch Summer Research Institute
November 2024 – InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) is proud to announce that it has been selected as a recipient of a 2024 Interprofessional Collaboration Research Grant from the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP). This prestigious national award—granted to only three projects—was awarded to Dr. Hossein Khalili, President of IPR.Global, and his team for their proposal, “Empowering Interprofessional Collaboration Through Global Research Innovation.”
The grant will support the design and pilot implementation of the IPR.Global Summer Research Institute (SRI)—an immersive fellowship program developed to equip emerging interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) researchers with the skills and mentorship needed to lead transformative global research.
About the Institute
Developed in collaboration with Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) and Northwest Area Health Education Center (NC NW AHEC), the SRI is designed to foster high-impact interprofessional research that addresses healthcare disparities and advances health equity.
Scheduled for September 19–21, 2025, the Institute will feature:
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Three days of synchronous online workshops and seminars, led by international IPECP experts.
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Followed by 2–4 weeks of asynchronous mentorship, enabling participants to develop, refine, and disseminate rigorous, collaborative research projects.
As part of the program, fellows will be eligible to compete for seed grants of up to $2,000 to help launch innovative interprofessional research initiatives.
Application Details
- Application Deadline: July 14, 2025
- Location: Hosted virtually in collaboration with WSSU and NC NW AHEC
This initiative exemplifies IPR.Global’s mission to advance evidence-informed, theory-driven interprofessional research that strengthens health systems and improves outcomes worldwide.
Global IPECP Research Planning Summit Lays Foundation for 2025 Summer Institute
April 11–12, 2024 – The IPR.Global Interprofessional Research Planning Summit, held at WSSU, convened regional and international leaders (Drs. Gilbert, Zomorodi, Slater, Owens, Lackie, and others) to co-create the roadmap for the 2025 Summer Research Institute.
Summit highlights:
- Defined SRI structure: 3–5 days synchronous, followed by 2-4 weeks asynchronous team projects and culminating with fellows’ online presentations.
- Established task forces for curriculum design, grant proposal writing, and program evaluation, to be led by joint WSSU and external institutional teams.
This summit catalyzed the development of a global IPECP research training ecosystem aimed at transforming healthcare worldwide.
IPR.Global COVID-19 Taskforce was Recognized with the Excellence in Global Interprofessional Collaboration Award
November 2023 – At the All Together Better Health (ATBH XI) Gala Dinner, the IPR.Global COVID-19 Taskforce, led by Dr. Hossein Khalili, was honored with the Excellence in Global Interprofessional Collaboration Award by Interprofessional.Global.
Since 2020, the Taskforce has made major contributions to IPECP, including publishing over 10 scholarly works, hosting 20+ international webinars and symposia, and launching a global COVID-19 impact survey. Their work has been cited nearly 300 times, with 10,000+ downloads and views worldwide.
This award recognizes the Taskforce’s innovative and resilient efforts during a time of global crisis, and their legacy continues to influence health education and policy globally.
Dr. Michael Sy Received the 2022–23 John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award
November 2023 – At the ATBH XI Gala Dinner, Dr. Michael Sy was presented with the 2022–23 John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Research Award by Dr. Hossein Khalili, President of IPR.Global.
This prestigious award celebrates Dr. Sy’s outstanding doctoral research, which bridged interprofessional learning with collaborative healthcare practice. His work exemplifies the integration of students, practitioners, and patients in developing measurable, high-quality interprofessional care.
IPR.Global is proud to support rising leaders like Dr. Sy who are shaping the future of IPECP through evidence-based practice and transformative research.
Here is Dr. Sy’s Presentation.
AIHC Calls for Award Nominations
The American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) Scholarship Committee, in conjunction with the AIHC Scholarship Awards Subcommittee, would like to announce a call for nomination for 5 (five) AIHC awards.
The awards are:
- AIHC Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
- AIHC Interprofessional Practice Award
- AIHC Scholarship Award
- AIHC Interprofessional Educator Award
- AIHC Student Award for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Nominations forms/packets will be accepted until June 30, 2020. (Nominations will be accepted past this date.)
Attached are the award descriptions, selection criteria, assessment rubrics and nomination forms.
The AIHC Scholarship Awards Subcommittee will review all nominations and select an award recipient who will be recognized at one of the national IPE conferences, such as the Nexus Summit or Collaborations Across Borders.
For additional information email: diane.bridges@rosalindfranklin.edu.
The IPR.Global Best Research Awards recognize interprofessional scholarly works that exemplify excellence in the following:
- The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award – The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award will recognize an academic – practice partnership team that demonstrates impact on learner and health outcomes through sustaining and connecting interprofessional education and collaborative practice in community-based practice settings serving vulnerable and high-risk populations.
- The Hugh Barr Global Award – The Hugh Barr IPR.Global Award will recognize the evaluation/project by an interprofessional team of an outstanding example of collaboration between institutions/organizations in high-income and low/middle-income countries to promote and sustain interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
- The John H.V. Gilbert Global Award – The John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award will recognize an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that has resulted in a learning paradigm which brings interprofessional education and learning to interprofessional collaborative practice in a clinical setting where practitioners, students and patients have been engaged in developing measurable interprofessional high quality care.
The awards aim at recognizing and honoring the innovative interprofessional partnership, projects or research that has demonstrated a positive impact on the academic/practice/community with a notable contribution to the interprofessional education and collaborative practice field.
To learn more and apply, please review the 2020 IPR.Global Best Research Awards Application Guidelines.
Global IPE Analysis Survey Coming Soon!
InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global, www.interprofessionalresearch.global) and the Interprofessional.Global (https://interprofessional.global/) are soon conducting a Global interprofessional education (IPE) Analysis Survey to better understand the state of IPE at academic institutions around the world. Specifically, the purpose of the survey will be to understand the extent to which IPE is structured within, and offered through academic institutions and/or academic programs globally. Stay Tuned!
The InterprofessionalResearch.Global and the Interprofessional.Global have just released “Guidance on Global Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Research: Discussion Paper” in three languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish.
IPR.Global Presented 3 Distinguished Research Awards
At CAB VII conference in Indiana, Dr. Hossein Khalili, Co-founding Lead of the InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global), presented the Distinguished Global IPECP Research Award Plaques to three world-renowned interprofessional leaders in recognition of their life-time contribution to the scholarship and advancement of the IPECP field:
- Dr. John H.V. Gilbert
- Dr. Hugh Barr
- Dr. Barbara F. Brandt
Congratulations to John, Hugh, and Barbara!
IPR.Global Best Research Awards
InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) at the Collaborating Across Borders VII Conference “Crossroads of Collaboration”, Indiana announced prestigious InterprofessionalResearch.Global Research Awards named after three World-renowned Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) Leaders:
- The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award
- The Hugh Barr IPR.Global Award
- The John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award
The application for these IPR.Global Awards will be open in early 2020!
Global Leadership in IPECP Research; A Joint CAB Pre-Conference with CIHC and AIHC
IPR.Global in collaboration with CIHC and AIHC facilitated a pre-conference workshop at CAB VII Conference in Indiana on Oct 20th, 2019. The 3-hour interactive workshop was aimed to raise awareness and share knowledge and expertise around the application of a range of theoretical/conceptual frameworks along with different research methodologies and designs that underpin IPECP research.
