Key Dates:
Letter of Intent (LOI): February 4, 2020
Application: May 5, 2020
Merit Review: July 2020
Funds Available:
- Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options ($32 million);
- Improving Healthcare Systems ($16 million);
- Addressing Disparities ($8 million);
- Communication and Dissemination Research ($8 million)
Total Direct Costs:
- Addressing Disparities; Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options; Improving Healthcare Systems: $3 million for small studies; $5 million for large studies
- Communication and Dissemination Research: $2 million
The Broad PCORI Funding Announcements (PFAs) seek investigator-initiated applications for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects aligned with our priority areas for research. This PFA covers the following four priority areas: Addressing Disparities; Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options; Communication and Dissemination Research, and Improving Healthcare Systems. Applications should address needs of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders in making personalized clinical decisions across a wide range of conditions, populations, and treatments. Note: In general, PCORI will not cover costs for interventions that are being compared in the proposed study.