Deadline: 7-Feb-23
The Partnering Research and Community Organizations for Novel Health Equity Research: Addressing Social and Clinical Determinants of Maternal Health Targeted PCORI Funding Announcement (Partner Targeted PFA) is seeking to fund high-quality, comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies that focus on multicomponent, multilevel interventions simultaneously addressing health conditions and social determinants of health to improve maternal health outcomes.
The Partner Targeted PFA, which supports PCORI’s National Priorities for Health, including Achieve Health Equity, will fund CER studies in which community organizations are full partners in the work, are in leadership roles, and are partners in critical decision making alongside research organizations.
Research Question
- PCORI is seeking to fund rigorous high-quality studies that address the following research question: What is the comparative effectiveness of multicomponent, multilevel interventions to improve maternal outcomes for individuals from populations highly impacted by maternal health disparities?
- Proposed CER studies may focus on pre-and/or postnatal care and should include at least one of each of the following types of interventions:
- Health systems strategies to address disparities in maternal health outcomes (e.g., data accountability measures; bias awareness training; trauma-informed care; team-based care; community-informed models of care; telehealth; standardized protocols for monitoring/treatment of hypertension, substance use, depression, and diabetes)
- Strategies to address social determinants of health (e.g., active assistance with resources; medically tailored meals; vouchers for food, housing, or other needs; medical-legal partnerships; integrated social services in clinical settings)
Funding Information
- PCORI acknowledges that the Partner Targeted PFA seeks more innovative approaches to answering highly complex research questions and is therefore allotting time to study teams for planning purposes. The award will have two phases: a planning phase of up to one year and a research phase of up to five years in which CER will be conducted.
- For each award, a maximum budget of $1 million in total costs is allowed for the planning phase and a maximum budget of $20 million in total costs is allowed for the research phase (regardless of the number of studies).
Eligibility Criteria
In general, applications for the conduct of research and management of funding may be submitted by appropriate academic research, private sector research, or study-conducting entities. This may include, among others, agencies and instrumentalities of the Federal Government, nonprofit and for-profit research organizations, and colleges and universities.
For more information, visit PCORI.