Fellows Announce 2025 Grant Recipient
Media Contact: Bryan Black
AUSTIN, TEXAS — The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) is pleased to share that the Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) have announced the recipient of the 2025 FAANP Grant. Congratulations to Christopher W. Blackwell, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FAAN, for his project, “Preventing HIV Through Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: An Evaluation of Family Nurse Practitioner Programs in the United States.”
Dr. Christopher Blackwell is an associate professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Nursing, and a prominent scholar who has made significant contributions to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health. His research is published in many prestigious journals and textbooks, winning awards from the Florida Nurses Association and March of Dimes. He is the recipient of three teaching awards and is former vice chair of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Adult Nurse Practitioner Content Expert Panel. He practices in pulmonary/critical care and is certified as an adult nurse practitioner, adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner and nurse educator.
Established in 2017, the $5,000 FAANP Grant is awarded annually to one or more Fellows in good standing for the completion of a project within 18 months. This project must highlight the work of nurse practitioners (NPs) and further the contributions of the FAANP. The project focus is to fall within one of the four categories of the AANP Research Agenda 2023–2028, published in the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP). Applicants must explain how the project fits within the needs identified in the research agenda framework. Projects may include primary and secondary analysis of research data, policy analysis, implementation of clinical innovations or practice models to improve health outcomes and the development and testing of educational interventions or point-of-care technologies.
Fellows interested in applying for a 2026 FAANP Grant should prepare for the program to open in the fall of 2025.
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