PCORI Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support

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This grant program provides funding for organizations and communities to hold convenings that include patients, researchers, clinicians, purchasers, payers, health system leaders, and other stakeholders. Convenings should focus on supporting collaboration around patient-centered outcomes research and clinical comparative effectiveness research (PCOR/CER).

Funding tracks:

Convening Around Patient-Centered CER: Promote discussion of research topics, prioritizing research questions and/or engagement plans for patient-centered CER

Convening Around Dissemination of PCORI-Funded Research Findings: Communicate results from eligible PCORI-funded studies to targeted audiences who will use the results through a convening or series of convenings as the primary method for active dissemination

Populations of interest:

• Residents of rural areas
• Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups
• Low-income groups
• Women
• Children (ages 0 to 17 years)
• Older adults (ages 65 years and older)
• Individuals with special healthcare needs, including individuals with disabilities
• Individuals with multiple chronic diseases
• Individuals with rare diseases
• Individuals whose genetic makeup affects their medical outcomes
• Patients with low health literacy, numeracy, or limited English proficiency
• Gender and sexual minorities
• Veterans and members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families

Applications may be submitted by nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

U.S.-based applicants must have a Federal Employer Identification Number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service.

Foreign organizations and nondomestic parts of U.S. organizations must show how the project will benefit the U.S. healthcare system and that engagement plans include U.S. patients and stakeholders.

Up to $125,000 for a 1 year project period.

Application instructions and links to additional guidance are available on the program website.

Applicants must submit a letter of intent through the online portal by April 1, 2025. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, with a deadline of July 10, 2025.