Engagement Blogs

New Online Training Teaches Fundamentals of Research

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 wealth of knowledge and expertise to a project. However, we have also learned that...
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Webinars Offer Lessons from Health Systems Dealing with Coronavirus Challenges

Published: 
July 21, 2020
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
The coronavirus pandemic has led to disruptions in healthcare systems across the globe. Since March, hospitals in different areas of the country have had to address enormous challenges to their capacity, operating systems, and patient flow, among other issues. Although the situation has eased in...
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Engagement Tools Offer Tips for Engaging Virtually

Published: 
June 29, 2020
Author(s): 
Alana Cole,
Nana Martinson, MPH,
Ivey Wohlfeld,
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
As the nation deals with ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic, PCORI and its funded research teams are adapting everything from the questions they seek to answer to the way they conduct activities. In terms of patient and stakeholder engagement, most in-person activities have transitioned to a...
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Spreading Awareness and Interventions for Mental Health

Published: 
May 19, 2020
Author(s): 
Adney Rakotoniaina
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
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 including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder—are at...
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Introducing an Engagement Awards Funding Cycle to Address COVID-19

Published: 
April 20, 2020
Author(s): 
Ivey Wohlfeld
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Funding Awards
Research
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, and other funders. As you may have already read , PCORI launched the HERO Registry and study to...
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Measuring the Reach of PCORI's Funded Research Results

Published: 
March 27, 2020
Author(s): 
Robin Bloodworth, PhD, MPH,
Heather Edwards, PhD, MPH, MBA,
Laura Forsythe, PhD, MPH,
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Evaluating Our Work
Research
As patients, clinicians, researchers, and other members of the healthcare community know all too well, research findings can sit in the scientific literature, taking far too long to help improve patients’ lives—if they ever do. Since its inception, PCORI has been working to assure that findings...
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Building Research Capacity for the Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Community

Published: 
February 28, 2020
Author(s): 
Rachel Mosbacher, MPA,
Melissa Schenkman, MPH, MSJ
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
At PCORI, we fund work that aims to reduce healthcare disparities, bringing underserved populations whose everyday healthcare needs often go unmet into the research process, such as those in the transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community. For TGNC people, gender identity differs from...
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Supporting the Safety Net through Research Training and Engagement

Published: 
February 14, 2020
Author(s): 
Adney Rakotoniaina
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
Community Health Centers (CHCs), including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), provide primary care services to the most underserved populations in the country. These health centers also offer dental, behavioral, pharmacy, and other services to patients who would otherwise be unable to...
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Updates to Engagement Award Funding Opportunities

Published: 
February 3, 2020
Author(s): 
Ivey Wohlfeld
Blog Topics: 
Application Process
Engagement Blogs
Funding Awards
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 research (PCOR) and comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). Supporting communities to...
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Introducing the Engagement Tool and Resource Repository for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

Published: 
December 2, 2019
Author(s): 
Krista Woodward, MPH, MSW,
Ivey Wohlfeld,
Alana Cole
Blog Topics: 
Engagement Blogs
Research
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 more relevant for decision making, and thus, more likely to be taken up in practice. But...
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