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Engagement Award April 2024 Cycle Funding Announcements Open
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The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program is now accepting applications for the April 2024 Cycle PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs). The Engagement Award Program supports projects that encourage active, meaningful…
Placing Patient and Peer Voices at the Forefront: Engagement Projects Focus on Mental Health
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Mental health conditions impact individuals across age, income, racial, and ethnic groups. One in five people in the United States will experience a mental health condition within a given year…
New Engagement Award Builds Small Organizations' Capacity for Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research
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PCORI believes research that involves patients and other participants—like small organizations—from the start will lead to useful results more likely to be taken up in clinical practice. This is why…
Engagement Award October 2023 Cycle Funding Announcements Open
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The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program is now accepting applications for the October 2023 Cycle PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs). The Engagement Award Program supports projects that encourage active, meaningful…
Improving Maternal Health Through Engagement
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In response to the increasing crises of over 700 maternal deaths and nearly 73,000 reported cases of maternal morbidity occurring in the United States as recently as 2022, maternal morbidity…
Addressing American Indian Health Disparities: The American Indian Health Research & Education Alliance Native Research Ambassador Program
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American Indians (AI) are at high risk for developing chronic medical conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disease, and yet are among the least represented people in healthcare research. In…
PCORI Engagement Award Program Offers New Funding to Build Capacity for Small Organizations to Engage in PCOR/CER
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The October 2022 Cycle of the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program is now open. This funding cycle has a new funding opportunity for small groups: Building Capacity for Small…
Resources, Roles, and Returning Value: Lessons from Patient- and Participant-Driven Research Communities (Part 2)
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As Patient and Participant-Driven Research Communities (PDRCs) have become widespread, PCORI embarked on an initiative to understand the patient and participant-driven research landscape more fully and organize a learning network…
Resources, Roles, and Returning Value: Lessons from Patient- and Participant-Driven Research Communities (Part 1)
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PCORI’s mandate to fund research that is done differently requires engagement of patients and stakeholders as partners. By “engagement in research,” we refer to the meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers…
PCORI-funded Survey on Smell and Taste Dysfunction Prompts Tremendous Response from Patients
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Although the primary purpose of our ability to smell and taste is to protect us from danger, we often take these vital senses for granted. Jenifer Trachtman, Smell for Life…
Making A Difference: A Special Journal Supplement on Patient and Veteran Engagement in Health Research
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Researchers are increasingly realizing that partnering with patients and stakeholders to design and conduct studies can make those studies and the results they produce more useful to those making important…
Engagement Awards Funding Announcements Open
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Since 2014, the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award program has awarded more than $130 million to fund more than 637 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes…
Building Sustainable PCOR and CER via Engagement
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PCORI supports research that generates information to help people make informed healthcare decisions and improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. Patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders guide our funded research…
Engagement Awards Announce Fall 2021 Funding Opportunities, Including New Special Area of Interest
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Since 2014, the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award program has awarded more than $121 million to fund nearly 600 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes research…
Engagement Awards Special Cycles Launch for Projects on COVID-19, IDD
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The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program today introduces two special funding opportunities to build capacity to support patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). These PFAs call for proposals related to COVID-19…
First Engagement Award Funding Opportunities of 2021 Now Open
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Based on feedback from awardees and applicants and in response to PCORI’s National Priorities, we are pleased to share updates to the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program’s three funding…
PCORI and RAND Project to Evaluate Measures of Patient and Stakeholder Engagement
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At PCORI, we have made great strides in making the case for engagement in research, and in showing practical ways to incorporate patients and other stakeholders seamlessly into research teams…
New Online Training Teaches Fundamentals of Research
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We know at PCORI that engaging patients and stakeholders is critical to generating and conducting meaningful research that informs decisions about health care. As partners, patients and stakeholders bring a…
Increasing Our Support for Sharing Research Results with Study Participants
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At PCORI, our mission is to fund research that can help patients and those who care for them make better-informed decisions about their health care. When people contribute to this…
Spreading Awareness and Interventions for Mental Health
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Mental health is a topic that some people feel uncomfortable discussing. But failing to spread mental health awareness can have serious consequences. For example, people with serious mental illness (SMI)—conditions…
COVID-19, Other Research Funding Opportunities Open for Proposals
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As COVID-19 continues to present unique healthcare challenges to our nation, PCORI in turn continues to consider how we can best contribute to ongoing efforts to combat it hand in…
Introducing an Engagement Awards Funding Cycle to Address COVID-19
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Recognizing the public health crisis that COVID-19 presents to our nation, PCORI has considered in recent weeks how we could best contribute to ongoing efforts in collaboration with government, industry…
Updates to Engagement Award Funding Opportunities
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Since 2014, the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program has awarded more than $95 million to fund more than 477 projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes…
Introducing the Engagement Tool and Resource Repository for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
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PCORI requires that its funded projects meaningfully engage patients and other stakeholders throughout the research process. Engagement with patients and those who care for them ensures that study results are…
Patient Engagement Is Critical to Producing Useful, Relevant Research
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Since our founding nearly 10 years ago, PCORI has emphasized the importance of engagement—the meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, clinicians, insurers, and others across the healthcare community in every aspect…