Engagement Award: Convening Support - Spring 2026 Cycle
Forecasted
Engagement Award: Convening Support - Spring 2026 Cycle supports patients and healthcare partners in meetings to shape patient-centered comparative research or share PCORI-funded findings with intended users.
Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (LOI) | July 2027 (Invited application)
Funding Amounts: Up to $125,000, including direct and indirect costs, for up to one year
Summary: Supports convenings that expand patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research or disseminate eligible PCORI-funded research findings.
Key Information: Organizations may apply, but individuals may not; this program supports engagement projects, not research studies.
Description
PCORI’s Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program supports meetings and conferences bringing patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community together to advance patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). CER compares two or more healthcare options and, when patient-centered, addresses outcomes that matter to patients with their meaningful involvement throughout the research process. Convenings must unite participants around a shared geography, health condition or population.
Projects select one of two tracks: developing research topics, priorities, engagement approaches and partnerships, or actively disseminating eligible PCORI-funded findings through convenings. Intended outputs include community-informed research priorities, strategic roadmaps, continuing engagement approaches and dissemination strategies. PCORI welcomes any health topic meeting program guidelines, not only its Topic Themes.
