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The United States has made great progress against the smoking epidemic over the past half-century, reducing the number of people who smoke from more than 40 percent of the population in the mid-1960s to around 14 percent today. But that still leaves more than 34 million Americans using tobacco. And...

Youth are not often engaged as partners in traditional research, and even in the kind of patient-centered outcomes research to which PCORI is committed, youth are less likely than adults to contribute.

PCORI-funded research continues to make news, surfacing in recent feature stories in Kaiser Health News and in the journal Nature . The Kaiser Health News piece profiles the Bureau of Sages , a group of vulnerable seniors who, with Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award funding, have formed an...

Ralph Conwill—a prostate cancer survivor and a patient partner on a PCORI-funded study —wrote about his involvement in the research process for a perspective piece published by Nashville’s The Tennessean . In it, he notes that he serves as “an equal partner ... alongside the scientists in what is a...