Funder: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Due Dates: January 12, 2027 (Proposal submission) | Week of March 29, 2027 (Awards announced)
Funding Amounts: Travel/development: up to $5,000 for one year; pilots: up to $50,000; full projects: typically $150,000–$250,000, maximum $400,000; research awards up to three years
Summary: Supports research developing and testing strategies for more efficient, effective, and equitable health care delivery in the United States.
Key Information: Eligibility is limited to specified J-PAL researchers, qualifying graduate students, and 2026 ARTEMIS participants (pilot funding only).
Description
J-PAL North America’s US Health Care Delivery Initiative (HCDI) supports randomized evaluations of strategies to improve health care delivery in the United States. It funds exploratory development, pilot studies, full evaluations, and extensions of previously funded research, generating rigorous evidence to inform health care policy.
The initiative particularly welcomes research questions involving racial equity and seeks to address disparities in health outcomes and access associated with income and race. It also helps overcome barriers to partnerships between academics and health care leaders. Eligible research includes evaluations of policies and programs, randomized correspondence or audit studies, and re-analyses of past randomization. Early-stage, non-randomized work can receive pilot or development support when it clearly leads toward a randomized evaluation.
