Funding Information

• Award total costs may not exceed $300,000. The maximum budget includes all direct and indirect costs.

Duration

• Maximum Project Period is Two years.

Eligible Projects

• The Engagement Award: Capacity Building funding opportunity offers the chance to build capacity and skills for patient-centered CER. Capacity building to support patient-centered CER refers to projects that:
  • Help patients, families, caregivers and individuals within the broader healthcare community who are not researchers to engage as partners in future patient-centered CER. These individuals may have expertise in, connection to or lived experience in the project’s focus area. These projects will help communities partner in a meaningful way with researchers throughout the patient-centered CER process.
  • Strengthen the skills of researchers to be better partners with patients, families, caregivers and other members of the broader healthcare community involved in patient-centered CER.
  • Support prior Engagement Award Program awardees returning as applicants to grow the impact of their capacity-building work.

Eligibility Criteria

• Nonprofit and for-profit organizations may apply.
• U.S.-based applicants must have a Federal Employer Identification Number. This is assigned by the Internal Revenue Service.
• Applicants must demonstrate the capability to comply with the terms of the standard agreement associated with each PFA.
• Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to review the standard agreement prior to application.
• Individuals may not apply.
• Foreign organizations and nondomestic parts of U.S. organizations must show how the project will benefit the U.S. health system and that engagement plans include U.S. patients and stakeholders.

Ineligibility Criteria

• The Engagement Award Program does not fund projects that:
  • Lack a clear focus on patient-centered CER.
  • Include a cost-effectiveness analysis of alternative approaches to providing care.
  • Focus solely on increasing patient engagement in health care or health systems rather than healthcare research, particularly patient-centered CER.
  • Design or test healthcare interventions.
  • Involve the use of a drug or medical device.
  • Create clinical practice guidelines, care protocols or decision support tools.
  • Create coverage, payment or policy recommendations or guidelines.
  • Address only quality measures, quality improvement or engagement around quality measures.
  • Recruit and enroll participants for clinical trials.

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