Engagement Award: Convening Support Grant

The Engagement Award: Convening Support fosters meaningful collaboration among patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other stakeholders in research. Initiated by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), this program aims to enhance patient engagement throughout the research process. By providing tools and resources, the award supports initiatives that improve healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring that patient perspectives are integral to research efforts.

The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program is accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for the Engagement Award: Convening Support funding opportunity. This opportunity supports projects that include multi-party convenings, meetings and conferences which bring together communities of patients, families, caregivers and individuals within the broader healthcare community. These must align with PCORI’s mission and help expand patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). All proposed projects must show how they will expand patient-centered CER. Proposed projects may last up to one year and cannot exceed $125,000 in total costs.
Proposed projects must focus on one of two funding tracks — Convening Around Patient-Centered CER or Convening Around Dissemination of PCORI-Funded Research Findings. Applicants will self-select the focus at the time of LOI submission.
Convening Around Patient-Centered CER: These projects promote discussion of research topics, prioritizing research questions and/or engagement plans for patient-centered CER.Convening Around Dissemination of PCORI-Funded Research Findings: These projects communicate results from eligible PCORI-funded studies to targeted audiences who will use the results through convening(s) as the primary method for active dissemination.