Deadline: 26-Apr-21
The Donaghue Foundation is offering the Greater Value Portfolio Grant Program to improve the value of the healthcare they provide to patients and communities.
Investigators conducting research to develop actionable solutions to one or more of these symptoms of low-value healthcare are encouraged to apply to the Greater Value Portfolio program:
- High and rising healthcare costs;
- Unwarranted variation in prices;
- Racial and ethnic disparities in access, prices, and outcomes;
- Unaffordable cost of care burden on patients and families;
- Unacceptable variation in quality;
- Lack of transparency in both price and outcomes.
Funding Information
- The Greater Value Portfolio grant program will fund research projects for two years with a maximum amount of $400,000 per award (plus a 10% indirect) for the purpose of advancing promising approaches to achieve a higher value healthcare system.
Eligible Topics
To be considered for funding, research studies must focus on improving value through promising strategies using one or more of these approaches:
- Test models of care, coverage or system change that seek to improve value by addressing one or more of the symptoms of low value;
- Reduce treatments, tests, and screenings for patients for whom the potential harms (including financial harm) outweigh potential benefits;
- Provide tools to help consumers make decisions about their healthcare based on value, including the cost of care to patients, in addition to other patient-centered factors;
- Promote conversations between patients and their clinicians and care teams about preferences and trade-offs related to alternative treatment options and/or out of pocket cost burden to patients and families;
- Test interventions geared to increasing equity through the provision of higher value healthcare.
Eligibility Criteria
- This program is open to PhD (or equivalent) investigators at tax-exempt research institutions in the United States. In order to receive an award, the applicant must partner with an organization that delivers healthcare services or be a researcher based in a research unit embedded in a healthcare organization. Partner organizations cannot be the applicant organization. A fuller description of eligible applicant institutions is in the detailed program description below. Grantees may use this award to augment funding for a project already funded through another grant.
- The applicant organization must be 501(c)3 research institutions. Donaghue requires that the applicant organization has adequate infrastructure to assure:
- Ethical conduct of research, protection of research participants, and appropriate data protections.
- Financial monitoring of grant awards and administering any related subcontracts.
- Resources to assist the principal investigator with dissemination activities.
For more information, visit https://donaghue.org/grant-opportunities/greater-value-portfolio/