The PCORI Blog

Mental illness affects one in four Americans, yet it’s often absent from public conversations about health care. With May being Mental Health Month, it’s an appropriate time to help raise awareness and build support for the 57 million Americans living … Continued

We recently launched our second year of primary research funding by updating and improving our five broad PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) in response to feedback from applicants like you. We heard your requests for greater clarity about the review criteria … Continued

Our second year of patient-centered comparative effectiveness research funding kicked off May 15 with the release of five updated PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs). In this first of three rounds of funding we plan through these announcements, we aim to award up to … Continued

Women most often are the healthcare decision-makers in our families. We are responsible for choosing doctors, making sure our children and spouses get to their appointments, and ensuring our loved ones get the care they need. We research and we … Continued

We at PCORI always say that we count on input from across the healthcare community to guide our research agenda and improve our processes. The latest example of how we make good on that practice goes to the heart of … Continued

Welcome to “On Contracts,” a new feature of the PCORI Blog. I hope you’ll find this feature a useful source of information about how our applications are evaluated, how we operate, and how we’re committed to “research done differently.” I … Continued

Talk about “Big Data” is common lately, especially in healthcare. After all, there are few fields where more data are collected and used on a daily basis – and where there is such widespread agreement that we aren’t doing a … Continued

 Ever since we launched the PCORI Challenge in December 2012, we’ve been eagerly awaiting what kind of answers we’d get to a complex question: how might we effectively connect patients and researchers interested in partnering to conduct patient-centered outcomes research? Now, … Continued

Two parents who have cared for children who needed heart transplants. A patient advocate with Parkinson’s disease. A community organizer focused on helping minorities and the underserved. A man who has served as his wife’s caregiver for 44 years and a woman who … Continued

In late January, we issued a broad public call for applicants for our first four PCORI Advisory Panels, the multi-stakeholder groups that will help us refine our patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research portfolio. We envision these panels as effective, ongoing … Continued