Deadline: 26-Sep-2024
The Engagement Award Program is now accepting LOIs for the Engagement Award: Capacity Building funding opportunity.
This opportunity aims to build the capacity and skills of patients and stakeholders to engage in all phases of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). All proposed projects must show how they will help to build capacity for patient-centered CER.
This funding announcement offers the chance to build capacity and skills for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). Capacity building to support patient-centered CER refers to projects that:
- Help stakeholders who are not researchers engage as partners in patient-centered CER. These stakeholders include patients, families, caregivers and the broader health and healthcare community; they may have a connection to, expertise in or lived experience in the focus area of the project. These projects will help the various stakeholder communities partner in a meaningful way with researchers throughout the patient-centered CER process. For example, projects might:
- Educate and train patients and/or stakeholders on patient-centered CER.
- Establish a learning community or collaborative.
- Help patients and/or stakeholders identify patient-centered outcomes, prioritize patient-centered CER topics or themes and/or develop a patient-centered CER agenda.
- Get patient and/or stakeholder views on what communities need to participate in patient-centered CER.
- Strengthen the skills of researchers to be better partners with patients and other stakeholders involved in patient-centered CER. Activities might include, but are not limited to:
- Educating and training researchers on meaningful stakeholder engagement strategies.
- Developing and integrating stakeholder engagement training within curricula for researchers.
- Establishing a sustainable mechanism for ongoing collaboration between researchers and stakeholders.
- Allow prior Engagement Award Program awardees returning as applicants to grow the impact of their work building capacity for patient-centered CER. Projects must accomplish one of the following:
- Expand the reach of an existing initiative building capacity for engagement in patient-centered CER (i.e., going from statewide focus to a national focus).
- Adapt an existing initiative building capacity for engagement in patient-centered CER to work with a different population (i.e., transitioning from an adult population of focus to youth, or from a general population to a specific underserved population).
- Advance the work of an existing collaborative to address priorities determined through the prior project (i.e., shifting focus from collaborative building and topic prioritization to specific research question and partnership development).
Funding Information
- A budget that does not exceed $300,000 in total costs (including all direct and indirect costs).
- A start date between June 1, 2025, and Nov. 1, 2025
- A project timeline no longer than two years
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.
For more information, visit PCORI.
