Applications due by May 2, 2017 Call for proposals for secondary analysis of data that currently exist in the PCRC Data Repository. The PCRC will grant two $50,000 awards to conduct a secondary analysis of repository data. Applications are due May 2, 2017 by 11:59 PM Mountain Time. We strongly encourage you to look at the studies briefly described below, their data dictionaries (linked below) and to search the literature for papers that have been published from these studies previously. The PCRC Executive Committee and Data Informatics and Statistics Core (DISC) leadership will review the
A new funding opportunity announcement from AHRQ solicits applications for research projects to develop, test and evaluate measures of shared decision making for research conducted in clinical settings. Shared decision making is a collaborative process in which patients and members of their clinical team make health care decisions that are informed by scientific evidence as well as patients' values and preferences. Each project is expected to produce valid and reliable measures of shared decision making, along with instructions for implementing the measures and documentation on the development
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications that propose the complete planning, design, and preparation of the documentation necessary for implementation of investigator-initiated clinical trials. The application should propose the developmental work to be performed that would enhance the probability of reaching definitive outcomes in a clinical trial. For more information, visit: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-133.html
Pilot and Exploratory Project Support Grants Junior Faculty Career Development Awards Transition to Independence Awards The Center has identified three specific areas of interest for all competitions: 1. Exploring the relationship of pain and other distressing symptoms to quality/quantity of life, independence, function and disability and developing interventions directed at their treatment in patients with advanced and chronic illnesses 2. Studying methods of improving communication between persons living with serious illness, their families and their health care providers 3. Evaluating
PCORI Announces Funding Opportunity for Community-based Palliative Care Delivery for Adult Patients with Advanced Illnesses and their Caregivers Key Deadlines Type Funds Available Total Direct Costs LOI: September 14, 2016 Application: December 19, 2016 Merit Review: March 2017 Research Award $48 million · Advance Care Planning: Not to exceed $6M per study · Models of Palliative Care Delivery: Not to exceed $10M per study
Early career investigators would you like to incorporate the latest science in health disparities into your own research? The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute from August 15, 2016, to August 19, 2016. The Institute aims to foster individual research projects of promising scientists and motivated research scholars with the overall goal to stimulate innovative research in the minority health and health disparities sciences. Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested in applying. What the
