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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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Our Shared Journey to Enduring Success

Published: 
April 15, 2020
Author(s): 
Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Executive Director's Blogs
Research
It is my great honor and privilege to join the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute today as its next Executive Director. I extend my deepest appreciation to Josephine P. Briggs, MD, who has expertly served as Interim Executive Director since November 2019. Her expertise and remarkable...
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Answering the Call on COVID-19

Published: 
April 1, 2020
Author(s): 
Josephine P. Briggs, MD
Blog Topics: 
Research
In this unprecedented and challenging time, PCORI is gearing up to do all we can to address the threat COVID-19 poses to the nation’s health with a multipronged effort to support research on approaches to prevent and minimize effects of the virus. A key piece of that effort is trying to ensure that...
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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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How I Cured My Rare Disease

Published: 
February 25, 2020
Author(s): 
Doug Lindsay
Blog Topics: 
Advisory Panels
Guest Blogs
Research
Editor’s Note: The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of PCORI. There are an estimated 25 to 30 million rare disease sufferers in the United States. My name is Doug Lindsay, and I am one of them. This is my story.
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PCORI's Continued Commitment to Researching Rare Diseases

Published: 
February 25, 2020
Author(s): 
Scott Berns, MD, MPH
Blog Topics: 
Advisory Panels
Guest Blogs
Research
It’s been an eventful year for Scott Berns, MD, MPH. In September 2019, Berns and his wife, Leslie Gordon, MD, PhD, were keynote speakers at the PCORI Annual Meeting. Then, in November, Berns was elevated to Chair of PCORI’s Advisory Panel on Rare Disease. In observance of Rare Disease Day, on...
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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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A New Year, a New Decade -- and a New Leader at PCORI

Published: 
January 27, 2020
Author(s): 
Christine Goertz, DC, PhD
Blog Topics: 
Research
The start of a new year is a time to celebrate accomplishments and reflect on opportunities and challenges ahead, especially when it marks the beginning of a new decade. PCORI is ringing in 2020 by doing both given two new, exciting events that will shape our work going forward. Christine Goertz,...
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