WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has opened the application periods for nine funding opportunities that offer up to $308.5 million in total funding. The latest PCORI…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $96 million to support 18 new research studies. These studies aim to fill evidence gaps and…

About this Blog Series Kristin Lee Berg, PhD, LCSW, was never a rebellious teenager, but she did have to navigate total vision loss in one eye and partial blindness in…

This summer, PCORI’s Board of Governors approved a set of eight broad topic themes that will inform PCORI’s funding opportunities over the next several cycles. The themes speak to everyday…

About this Blog Series On March 10, 2020, the Department of Public Health confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in Philadelphia. Eleven days later, COVID Watch, a patient outreach program…

About this Blog Series As a former Marine, Ana Aluisy, MA, LMFT, has seen her fair share of conflict. In her work as a marriage and family therapist, she has…

More than 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease—a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that affect blood flow and the body’s use of oxygen. Sickle…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began inviting proposals for new studies and implementation projects through nine funding opportunities. These PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) include up…

PCORI’s third funding cycle of the year opens September 7, seeking projects that answer questions about the most effective treatments for a variety of high-priority topics, study the best ways…

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered many uncertainties and concerns for pregnant people, who were faced with navigating frequent prenatal and postpartum healthcare visits under risk of COVID-19 exposure. The pandemic has…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved funding awards totaling $258 million to support 26 new research studies. These studies aim to fill evidence gaps and…

Our efforts to engage patients and stakeholders across the healthcare community, and focus on outcomes of interest to patients and those who care for them, are how we conduct Research…

Health disparities are pervasive and persistent in the United States. Despite growing recognition that disparities exist, health inequities based on gender, race, socioeconomic status, and other demographic factors remain challenging…

WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved several slates of funding awards totaling about $71.5 million to support 12 new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER)…

WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) will kick off a virtual convening on suicide prevention with an emphasis on youth and young adults hosted by the…

Conducting clinical research studies often takes years, from recruiting participants to analyzing data. It can often take many more years for new evidence from research to inform health care and…

WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has opened the application periods for eight funding opportunities that offer up to $297.5 million in total funding. The latest PCORI Funding Announcements…

PCORI is always looking for ways to respond to stakeholder feedback and enhance our processes to achieve our mission more effectively. I am pleased to report on some recent and…

WASHINGTON, DC—The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved two slates of research funding awards totaling $49.5 million to support nine new comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER)…

One of the goals PCORI set in its strategic plan is to influence research to become more patient-centered. Engaging patients and healthcare stakeholders in the research process is central to…

This month PCORI joins researchers, people with lived experience, health experts, medical professionals, and millions of other stakeholders to mark National Suicide Prevention Month. Suicide is the tenth leading cause…

Every time a parent leaves our neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to take their child home, we are asking them to do superhuman things. At Children’s National Hospital, the tasks…

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $254 million in funding for 28 new research studies aimed at eliminating disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality, preventing suicide among young people, and improving behavioral health, maternal and infant outcomes, cancer care, surgical care and outcomes for people with chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

An array of PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) open for Letters of Intent (LOI) on Tuesday, May 4, including three targeted announcements seeking projects on areas of acute interest. Two of…

More than a dozen topics ranging from healthy aging to prevention of drug addiction among adolescents and from telehealth to addressing bias, racism and discrimination throughout the health care continuum will be the focus of efforts to develop future research funding opportunities from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) following approval at today’s PCORI Board of Governors meeting.