New Engagement Award Program Funding Opportunities Open Jan. 16. Learn More

PCORI helps patients, caregivers, clinicians, policy makers and other healthcare system stakeholders make better-informed health decisions—and improves healthcare delivery and outcomes—by funding research that produces high-integrity evidence about how to prevent, diagnose, treat, monitor and manage diseases, disorders and other health conditions, and by promoting the dissemination and uptake of this evidence. PCORI is committed to transparency and a rigorous stakeholder-driven process that emphasizes the engagement of patients, caregivers and the broader healthcare community in all aspects of PCORI-funded research and its dissemination and uptake.

The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program, named in honor of the first chair of PCORI’s Board of Governors, is intended to bring more patients, caregivers, clinicians and other healthcare stakeholders into the research process. The goal is to support projects that will build a community better able to participate in patient-centered CER and serve as channels to disseminate study results. This is central to PCORI’s mission to fund useful CER that will help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions.

The Engagement Award Program supports PCORI’s Engagement Imperative defined in PCORI's Strategic Plan. The goal is to increase engagement in patient-centered CER—that is, the meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, clinicians and other healthcare stakeholders throughout the research process. 

This program is not a research funding opportunity.

Learn about Recently Funded Engagement Projects

Upcoming Engagement Award PFAs


April 2024 Cycle

These Engagement Award PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) will open on January 16, 2024. Letters of Intent for these funding opportunities are due April 4, 2024, by 5 pm (ET). Full proposals, which are by invitation only, are due July 10, 2024, by 5 pm (ET).

Recent Engagement Award PFAs


October 2023 Cycle

These Engagement Award PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) opened on July 18, 2023. Letters of Intent for these funding opportunities were due September 28, 2023, by 5 pm (ET). Full proposals, which are by invitation only, are due January 10, 2024, by 5 pm (ET).

April 2023 Cycle

These Engagement Award PCORI Funding Announcements opened on January 18, 2023. Letters of Intent for this Engagement Award funding opportunity were due April 3, 2023, by 5 pm (ET). Full proposals for these PFAs, which were by invitation only, were due July 10, 2023, by 5 pm (ET).

Awardee Share and Tell Video Series


In response to the coronavirus pandemic, many awardees from the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program have been pivoting from in-person engagement events to virtual settings. Some of these awardees have created videos to share valuable lessons and insight with the greater PCORI awardee community about successful ways to shift to or implement a virtual PCOR/CER engagement event.

Watch the Videos

Engagement Award Program Review and Analysis


Insight Policy Research reviewed, extracted and analyzed data from Engagement awardees’ interim and final progress reports, which indicate accomplishments, challenges and successes during the award period. The synthesis of findings, which was conducted between 2017-2020, is outlined in this poster.

Questions?


For questions about the Engagement Award application process, the PCORI Online application system, application deadlines, potential fit of a project idea or related issues, please contact us at [email protected] or (202) 370-9312. PCORI aims to respond to all questions within two business days. However, it cannot promise a response within two business days before a deadline.

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Posted: October 15, 2013; Updated: November 15, 2023

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