Deadline: 26-Sep-24
The Engagement Award Program is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for the Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative funding opportunity.
This program supports projects that encourage active, meaningful involvement of patients, families, caregivers and the broader health and healthcare community as integral members of the patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) enterprise. (Previous funding announcements used the term “PCOR/CER.”) The Engagement Award Program does not fund research studies.
Your project must focus on active dissemination that spreads awareness and increases knowledge of PCORI-funded research findings. This funding opportunity will not support projects that propose passive, untailored and untargeted dissemination strategies.
Dissemination Initiative Funding Opportunity
- The dissemination of research findings to patients, families, caregivers and the broader health and healthcare community is an important part of promoting the uptake and implementation of these findings in healthcare decision making, practice and policy. In many cases, the role of a trusted source in raising awareness of new evidence or placing it in an appropriate context is critical to facilitating its use. This Engagement Award initiative focuses on supporting organizations that are trusted sources for their patient, professional or other community to undertake dissemination activities.
- Award funds are intended to allow organizations and communities to actively communicate pertinent PCORI-funded research findings to relevant stakeholders in ways that will command their attention and interest and encourage use of this information in their healthcare decision making. For example, patients may use information to decide on a treatment; community members may use evidence to decide on wellness approaches; clinicians may use research findings to update their recommendations or discussions with patients; or clinic administrators may use evidence to choose among peer-support programs.
- Dissemination Initiative projects should be aimed at spreading awareness and increasing knowledge of PCORI-funded research findings, targeted directly to audiences such as patients, families, caregivers and the broader health and healthcare community who can use this information to inform healthcare decisions, although the focus of the activity may be on an intermediary. For example, training clinicians who will communicate information to patients is within the scope of a Dissemination Initiative activity, as is communicating results from a PCORI-funded study to employers to inform employee benefit options. Projects will be designed by organizations and communities with established relationships with relevant stakeholders to actively disseminate the findings from PCORI-funded studies — on their own or as part of the body of existing evidence relevant to the PCORI-funded research findings.
Funding Information
- PCORI plans to award up to $25 million in fiscal year 2025 as part of the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program.
- You may propose projects that will last up to two years and cost up to $300,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit and for-profit organizations may apply.
- U.S.-based applicants must have a Federal Employer Identification Number. This is assigned by the Internal Revenue Service.
- Applicants must demonstrate capability to comply with the terms of the standard agreement associated with each PFA. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to review the standard agreement prior to application. Standard agreements are available through the PCORI Funding Center.
- Individuals may not apply.
- Foreign organizations and nondomestic parts of U.S. organizations must show how the project will benefit the U.S. healthcare system and that engagement plans include U.S. patients and stakeholders.
Ineligible
- The Engagement Award Program does not fund projects that:
- Do not have a clear focus on patient-centered CER.
- Include a cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative approaches to providing care.
- Solely intend to increase patient engagement in health care or healthcare systems rather than healthcare research, particularly patient-centered CER.
- Design or test healthcare interventions.
- Involve the use of a drug or medical device.
- Create clinical practice guidelines, care protocols or decision support tools.
For more information, visit PCORI.