Sixty-five percent of maternal deaths in the United States occur postpartum, and the majority occur a week or more after delivery. And yet, there is comparatively little attention or follow-up…

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 four…

Helping all people reach their full health potential is the goal of achieving health equity. Many health inequities linked to race are due to structural barriers such as lack of…

Our nation continues to face urgent health and health care challenges, including rising rates of chronic disease and mental health issues, the crisis of substance use, insufficient access to care…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $123 million to support 15 new research studies. These studies aim to fill evidence gaps, enhance…

With just about any health condition, early intervention offers the best chance for a positive outcome. The sooner a diagnosis is made, and treatment starts, the better chance a person…

The benefits of learning health systems are increasingly evident in today’s data-rich healthcare environment. By collecting and analyzing data and experience from diverse sources, these systems are able to generate…

The Broad Pragmatic Studies (BPS) PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) was first issued in January 2022 and is designed to provide funding for high-quality comparative clinical effectiveness research projects. All applications…

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…

PCORI is delighted to welcome Tracy Wang, MD, MHS, MSc as Chief, Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER). Wang will draw upon her clinical expertise as a cardiologist and her extensive…

The eighth PCORI Annual Meeting last month highlighted so much of what makes our community special: a broad, diverse range of engaged stakeholders; inspirational expert speakers; compelling results from patient-centered…

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…

PCORI’s recently published Landscape Review and Summary of Patient and Stakeholder Perspectives on Value in Health and Health Care provides a comprehensive resource to help inform ongoing conversations between 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…

Editor's Note (February 27, 2023) These eight Topic Themes join four that are ongoing—preventing maternal morbidity and mortality, improving outcomes for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, addressing COVID-19, and…

About this Blog Series Growing up in California, Mei Kwong, JD, dreamed of becoming a singer or an actress, but never planned on becoming an attorney, much less a nationally…

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…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) this week shared details about a forthcoming $63 million funding opportunity for comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies to reduce inequities…

About this Blog Series When Patrick Gee, PhD, first learned he needed dialysis, he was stunned. He had never even seen a kidney doctor before and was shocked to find…

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…

In 2019, PCORI issued a call for research proposals to help address the highly prevalent, but often undertreated, condition of age-related hearing loss. Sherri Smith, AuD, PhD, Associate Professor of…

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…

About this Blog Series NeKeshia Jones, MPH, Senior Grant Specialist at Alameda Health System and prior PCORI Engagement Award recipient, says “the value of the collective community voice” guides her…