Deadline: 16-Jul-21
The newly released call for proposals from the Preparedness and Treatment Equity Coalition, managed by AcademyHealth, seeks to support research that identifies disparities in health care and proposes data-driven solutions.
The Preparedness and Treatment Equity Coalition (PTEC), in partnership with AcademyHealth, is committed to developing methods for the collection and use of data to decrease health inequity. Novel approaches and inspired collaborations are necessary to identify ways to measure and reward more equitable health outcomes.
PTEC is particularly focused on solutions for vaccine equity and conditions that dis-proportionally affect Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native American communities, such as cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders.
This call for proposals (CFP) will provide grant support for research studies that harness the power of data to identify metrics, outcome measures, or payment models that can be used to encourage practices that decrease inequity in the health care system. Supported research is intended to not merely be descriptive, but to identify inequity and propose data-driven solutions.
Funding Information
- Three (3) grants of $50,000 to support project-related costs, and access to services of data partners.
- Three (3) awards of no-cost access to services of data partners, with no direct financial support for project-related costs.
- Their data partners, IQVIA and Milliman, will work with the awardees to support their research requirements.
Why Participate?
- The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the pervasive inequity that exists in the U.S. health care system. Decreased access to testing, treatment, and vaccination has increased COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in underserved populations, especially Black, Latinx, and Native American communities.
- The high rate of underlying risk factors such as cardiovascular and metabolic disease makes infectious diseases such as COVID-19 deadlier and more destructive. With the advent of effective vaccines, the COVID-19 epidemic will eventually abate.
- However, the health inequity that imperils the lives of Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native American communities will remain.
Requirements
- Proposals should examine race/ethnicity as a cause of inequity in the United States health care system, and focus on cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, or vaccination.
- They strongly encourage proposals that also examine other intersectional factors that influence health equity including age, disability, or LGBTQ+ identities.
- Proposals may include research on other disease states as long as they demonstrate a connection to cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, or vaccination.
Eligibility Criteria
- Based in United States or U.S. territories.
- Applicants must be research teams comprised of research institutions (academic or nonacademic), health care providers, and/or community-based partners. Research teams from multiple organizations must designate a primary applicant responsible for grant stewardship. Awards will not be granted to individual researchers.
- Must examine health inequity within the United States health care system. Projects proposing independent or comparative study of other health care systems are excluded.
For more information, visit https://academyhealth.org/page/2021-preparedness-and-treatment-equity-coalition-health-inequities-research-grant-program