Deadline: 17-Nov-20
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is seeking proposals for Health Data for Action: (Data Access Award) to leverage health data for actionable insights.
The program is aligned with the Foundation’s efforts to engage the health care sector in promoting population health and broader policy considerations. With greater access to health data, including data from delivery systems, as well as health information technology, researchers can better answer important questions to build a Culture of Health and inform health policy.
For more than 45 years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has worked with others to address the major health and health care issues of their time. They believe deeply in the importance of research, evaluation, and learning to build a Trans disciplinary evidence base that helps inform efforts to address complex and interrelated determinants of health.
HD4A aims to reduce the barriers often faced in accessing rich data by serving as a conduit between data owners and interested researchers. Through this HD4A call for proposals (CFP), RWJF will make valuable data from unique data owners available to researchers.
The purpose of the 2020 HD4A CFP is primarily to award data access at no cost from one of eight anticipated data providers to successful applicants. Most selected projects will not receive a financial award for personnel or other project-related costs.
Focus Areas
- Eligible research projects can focus on a variety of topics, including health care utilization and spending; benefit design; quality of care; prescribing patterns and medication adherence; chronic disease; maternal and child care; complex conditions; employer-sponsored insurance; public and private insurance; consolidation; integration, and market competition; social determinants of health and disparities; COVID-19 patient characteristics and outcomes; financial distress; mental health; housing instability; opioid use and treatment; and geographic variation in health.
Funding Information
- Limited funding up to $100,000 per project is available for a small number of projects from principal investigators who have not previously received external research funding.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
- Preference will be given to applicants that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations. The Foundation may require additional documentation.
- Projects may be generated from disciplines including health services research; economics; sociology; program evaluation; political science; public policy; public health; public administration; law; business administration; or other related fields.
- Use of the data under this CFP is restricted to noncommercial purposes.
- Consistent with their Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commitment, they particularly encourage applications with project directors or team members from backgrounds historically underrepresented in research disciplines as a result of their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, or other factors.
For more information, visit https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2020/health-data-for-action-data-access-award.html