Available Grant Opportunities
Notice of Intent: Grants and Contracts for Comparative Effectiveness Research
We are pleased to inform you of the August 7, Notice of Intent to Publish from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to publish grant and contract solicitations for comparative effectiveness research projects with $300 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). AHRQ anticipates grant and contract solicitations to be published beginning in fall 2009 with awards starting in spring 2010.
AHRQ has supported comparative effectiveness research for many years. Since 2005, this research has been funded through the Agency’s Effective Health Care Program, which provides systematic reviews, supports new research to fill information gaps, and develops other translational information and tools designed to inform health care decision making.
AHRQ’s comparative effectiveness research projects that will be funded under ARRA will focus initially on 14 priority conditions that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services established under Section 1013 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, which can be found at http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/aboutUs.cfm?abouttype=program#Conditions.
Grants for comparative effectiveness research funded under ARRA include the following amounts and areas:
- $148 million for evidence generation, including prospective studies and patient registries.
- $29.5 million to support innovative translation and dissemination grants.
- $20 million to support training and career development.
Contracts for comparative effectiveness research funded under ARRA include the following amounts and topics
- $9.5 million to establish an infrastructure to identify new issues for comparative effectiveness review investments.
- $10 million to establish a citizen’s forum to formally engage all stakeholders and to expand and standardize public involvement in the entire effective health care enterprise.
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AHRQ Grant funding
AHRQ believes that ultimately patient safety is a local issue that must be addressed by each health care organization at the point of care. By providing information in the form of the toolkits that are produced from successful grants, AHRQ wants to help local health care organizations meet the challenge of implementing safe practice interventions to improve patient safety.
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Posted November 5, 2009
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-022.html
PAR-10-022
Purpose. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity (FOA) is to support Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) grant applications from organizations that will implement safe practice interventions that demonstrate evidence of reducing or eliminating medical errors, risks, hazards, and harms associated with the process of health care.
These 24 month implementation projects will inform AHRQ, providers, patients, payers, policy makers, and the public about how safe practice interventions can be successfully implemented in diverse health care settings and lead to safer and better health care for all Americans.
| Document Type: |
Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: |
PAR-10-022 |
| Opportunity Category: |
Discretionary |
| Posted Date: |
Nov 05, 2009 |
| Creation Date: |
Nov 05, 2009 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: |
Jan 07, 2013 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: |
Jan 07, 2013 |
| Archive Date: |
Feb 07, 2013 |
| Funding Instrument Type: |
Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: |
Health |
| Category Explanation: |
n/a |
| Expected Number of Awards: |
n/a |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: |
n/a |
| Award Ceiling: |
$300,000 |
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