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PCORI Virtual Annual Meeting 2020 -- Accelerating Impact on Care and Patient-Centered Outcomes | September 16-17, 2020 | #PCORI2020

Join Us at Our Virtual Annual Meeting: September 16-17

This year's meeting, Accelerating Impact on Care and Patient-Centered Outcomes, will highlight results from PCORI-funded studies and include virtual sessions on COVID-19, health inequities and healthcare disparities, maternal health, telehealth, and more.

Register for Free

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Featured Video

Helping Women Prevent Postpartum Depression Closer to Home

Women have various reasons for not seeking care for postpartum depression, such as social stigma associated with the condition. A study led by Darius Tandon, PhD, at Northwestern University—a speaker at the 2020 PCORI Virtual Annual Meeting—has found that a home visitor-led program can deliver the same levels of benefits from mental health and stress management interventions as those provided by mental health professionals.

Key Dates and Events
Application Deadline: Cycle 2 2020 PCORI Funding Announcements

Monday, Aug. 31 & Tuesday, Sept. 1

PCORI Board of Governors Meeting: September 2020

Monday, Sept. 14 & Tuesday, Sept. 15

PCORI Research Fundamentals Learning Package -- Research Fundamentals: Preparing You to Successfully Contribute to Research An image of a person sitting in front of an open laptop, while writing something in a notebook next to it.
Free On-Demand Training Package

Research Fundamentals: A New On-Demand Training

PCORI has launched a free, self-paced online training for those who are new to health research and want to learn more about the research process. The training is split into modules and uses plain language to describe patient-centered outcomes research.

Highlights

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Research Funding Opportunities Open September 1, 2020

Among them is a call for investigator-initiated applications for research studies in two special areas of emphasis: Maternal Mortality and Individuals with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities.

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Building Trust and Engaging the Safety Net

Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards teams across the country are helping health center patients and clinicians drive research important to them to better meet their complex medical and social needs.

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Engagement Award Opportunities Open September 1, 2020

They include support for projects that build communities to participate in patient-centered and clinical effectiveness research, or to disseminate PCORI-funded research evidence and published findings.

Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases

A PCORI-AHRQ systematic evidence review draft report, comparing the benefits and harms of several types of radiation therapies and how their effectiveness might vary by various measures, is now available for public comment through September 14.

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New RFI: Peer Review Management Services

Responses to the Request for Information will help guide the development of strategies for peer review management services of PCORI-funded research results. PCORI is particularly interested in learning about the types of organizations that can provide these services.

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Statement: Together Toward Change

PCORI has a critical role to play in identifying solutions to the dual public health crises of violence and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that are disproportionately claiming the lives of people of color. We stand united with the people of this country to find and implement those solutions.