The Office for Academic Clinical Affairs BOLD Ideas grant program encourages interdisciplinary collaborations to tackle the complex issues affecting community and individual health. These include:

• Health disparities and influencing social determinants of health
• Lack of access to needed healthcare and health promotion resources in rural Minnesota (closed hospitals/lack of providers/missing programs and needed expertise) and some urban settings (i.e., dentistry, dietitians)
• Health care provider burnout at all levels of training and career
• Technology that facilitates, rather than hinders, health and healthcare
• Achieving new advances in health and care through broader collaboration
• Opioid and addiction crises
• Addressing the societal and social issues of aging well
• Bioethical challenges resulting from the above

Advancing health in our communities requires thinking outside of the box, let’s work together.