Apply now for Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative (US)

Deadline: 1-Oct-21

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for the Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative funding opportunity. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) plans to award up to $25 million in fiscal year 2022 as part of the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards. These awards are for research support projects.

The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards support projects that encourage active, meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders as integral members of the patient-centered outcomes research/comparative clinical effectiveness research (PCOR/CER) enterprise.

This opportunity aims to support projects that help organizations and communities plan for or actively bring relevant PCORI-funded research findings to end users in ways that will command their attention and interest and encourage use of this information in their healthcare decision making.

This program does not fund research studies.

Engagement Award Priorities

The Engagement Award program supports PCORI’s Engagement Imperative—defined in the Strategic Plan—and provides a platform to increase engagement in research, that is, the meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders throughout the research process.
They expect projects selected for an Engagement Award to result in tools and resources that may be useful to other awardees for increasing patient and/or other stakeholder engagement in PCOR/CER, PCORI, and the broader PCOR community.
They are committed to using and widely sharing this information. Please see the PCORI Engagement Tool and Resource Repository for examples of what this can look like.

Funding Tracks

The Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative will give organizations and communities the opportunity to propose either:

Building Capacity: for Dissemination projects to lay the groundwork for disseminating and implementing PCORI-funded evidence through organizations with strong ties to end-user audiences, such as patients, clinicians, communities, and others who can use this information to inform healthcare decisions.
Active Dissemination: projects aimed at spreading awareness and increasing knowledge of PCORI-funded evidence, targeted directly to end-user audiences, such as patients, clinicians, communities, and others who can use this information to inform healthcare decisions.

Funding Information

Maximum Project Budget (Total Costs) Award total costs may not exceed $250,000. The maximum budget includes all direct and indirect costs.
Maximum Project Period Two years

Eligibility Criteria

Applications may be submitted by any private-sector organization, including any nonprofit or for-profit organization; any public-sector organization, including any university or college hospital or healthcare system; or any unit of local, state, or federal government.
The Internal Revenue Service must recognize all US applicant organizations. Organizations may submit multiple funding applications. Individuals are not permitted to apply.
Nondomestic components of organizations based in the United States and foreign organizations may apply, as long as there is demonstrable benefit to the US healthcare system, and US efforts in the area of patient-centered research can be shown clearly.
PCORI accepts applications from any private or public-sector organization, including any non-profit or for-profit organization or any unit of local, state, or federal government, including any:
- Nonprofit organization
- For-profit organization
- Laboratory or manufacturer
- University or college
- Hospital or healthcare system
- Unit of local, state, and federal government
For Engagement Awards: Dissemination Initiative, PCORI especially encourages applications from organizations and communities who are trusted sources of information for the people they have relationships with. As a reminder, PCORI’s stakeholders include:
- Patients/caregivers
- Clinicians
- Researchers
- Purchasers
- Payers
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Systems
- Policy Makers
- Training Institutions.