PCORI

When we held PCORI’s first Annual Meeting in 2015, it was largely an opportunity to convene our stakeholders to meet each other, discuss their goals and our plans for a still-new research organization, and to report on progress being made by some of our earliest-funded studies. Now, just days away...

We at PCORI have just marked our eighth anniversary as the nation’s leading funder of research comparing which healthcare options work best, for whom, given outcomes important to patients. We’ve also just welcomed seven new members to our Board of Governors. And we’re only a few weeks way from our...

Eight years ago, PCORI’s 21-member Board of Governors convened for the first time to start building a major new national health research funder from the ground up. I’m reminded of those early days–and how much PCORI has achieved since–as we welcome a new class of Board members who replace some of...

Last week, PCORI’s Board of Governors approved the Policy for Data Management and Data Sharing , the latest expression of our commitment to open science. We think it’s a substantial step toward being more accountable to those who pay the bills for health research–the public. PCORI has already...