The Alabama Family Practice Rural Health Board (AFPRHB), working with the Alabama Department of Public Health Office of Primary Care and Rural Health through State Match Funding, maintains a current grant application for specialized rural-health and medical-education projects in Alabama.
Funding: The current official application asks applicants to state the amount requested from AFPRHB and the total project cost, but it does not publish a fixed maximum award, award range, or total funding pool.
Deadline: The current official grant page and application form do not publish an application deadline, closing time, or time zone. Prospective applicants should confirm current review timing directly with AFPRHB before submission.
Program focus and eligibility: AFPRHB was established to strengthen rural medical access and physician workforce development. Its current materials describe grant requests from residency programs, medical schools, and other institutions interested in facilitating medical education. The application allows private and publicly funded organizations or institutions and requires the project to address one or more Board criteria, including physician recruitment, tracking students in residency programs, physician-recruitment health fairs for underserved areas, preceptorships, out-of-state residency rotations, essential studies or assessments, or identification of unmet needs in medically underserved rural areas of Alabama.
Eligible budget categories: The official form includes salaries and wages, consultant costs, travel, equipment, supplies, and other direct costs. The current materials do not state a mandatory applicant match or cost-share requirement.
Required form and submission: Applicants use the current four-page AFPRHB Grant Application. The form requests the project title, applicant and organization type, prior AFPRHB funding history, project director, project period, amount requested, total project cost, applicable Board criterion, project mission, organization and project structure, detailed budget, budget justification, and biographical information for professional personnel. A CV may be supplied in lieu of the biographical-sketch page. The current form directs applicants to email completed applications to ellen.stone@adph.state.al.us. AFPRHB also lists an office telephone number of (334) 546-2576.
Atlas analysis: Atlas Opportunity Score 74/100. N9+ Fit Score 48/100, conditional. The program is strongly relevant to rural health, physician workforce, medical education, and assessment of unmet rural needs, and the official budget expressly allows equipment. However, the published criteria do not establish telehealth, remote physical examination, or clinical-device acquisition as a primary program purpose. A Nonagon N9+ role should be considered only where an eligible institution has a legitimate rural medical-education or unmet-needs project that independently satisfies AFPRHB criteria.
Official sources: AFPRHB Grant Application page, the current AFPRHB application form, and the AFPRHB program overview.