NIHCM Foundation: Policy Research Award Grant

The NIHCM Foundation's Policy Research Award honors outstanding research published in peer-reviewed journals that significantly contributes to improving the affordability, accessibility, and quality of healthcare in the U.S. The winner will receive a $20,000 prize. Eligible entries must address healthcare affordability and be published in 2025, with a maximum of three submissions per author. This award aims to recognize innovative insights that can inform policymakers and stakeholders in the healthcare sector.

The NIHCM Foundation Policy Research Award recognizes excellence in published research that can help health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, health care consumers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of US health care.
Prize
A $20,000 prize will be presented to the winner.
Selection Criteria
Quality, originality, and novelty of research. Research publication produces new insights, data analysis, evidence and impact that can inform efforts to improve health care affordability, including by increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality.Entries should produce new insights that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.

Eligibility

Articles must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal during calendar year 2025 either in print or online.All research entries should include a focus on health care affordability, including increasing knowledge of the drivers and impacts of rising health care costs, or identifying solutions to improve health care access and quality. Entries should produce new insights, data analysis, and evidence that are relevant to health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, and/or related stakeholders.Entries should focus on health care in the United States.Limit three entries per entrant.The entrant is the person completing the form via the online entry system. An entrant can be an awards coordinator, an administrative assistant, or a leading author. For the Research Award, an individual will be accepted as the leading author on no more than three (3) applications. Individuals may be listed on additional applications as a co-author or co-contributor.

Ineligibility

An article cannot be submitted in more than one competition year.