Grant and Funding Opportunities

Department of Health and Human Services

5 to 10 awards of $300,000 to $3,000,000 each for a project period of up to 3 years.

March 11, 2010 (online only)

This Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) funding opportunity provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 invites grant applications from organizations that propose to develop and test interventions to improve the translation and adoption of existing comparative effectiveness research (CER) information and incorporate these findings into practice in both the public and private sectors. Funding will be used to support organizations that develop and test evidence-informed and innovative CER-based adoption interventions targeting patients and/or providers or develop proposals that test the implementation of CER-based adoption strategies within and across organizations and delivery systems and analyze any behavior change (in patients and/or providers) associated with the intervention.

Activities may include:

• Development and implementation of evidence-informed, innovative interventions to increase adoption of CER by providers and translate this evidence into practice (e.g. within a health care network).
• Development and implementation of evidence-informed, innovative interventions to increase adoption of CER evidence by patients and consumers within a health care network and measure behavior change.
• Development and testing of incentives and mechanisms for translation and adoption of CER evidence into practice.  Examples could include use of economic or other incentives or disincentives, addition of electronic health record (EHR) functions for this purpose, or other innovative approaches.
• Application or comparison of strategies or tools to implement translation and adoption activities targeting patients within a health care network or organization.
• Collection of evidence on adoption strategies in practice settings targeting providers and/or patients.

Integrated health care systems; Integrated provider systems; Academic Medical Centers; Provider consortia; Community Health Center Networks; Private payers; Other non-governmental organizations that administer or directly provide health care services ; Organizations that serve health care consumers; University-based school (e.g. School of Public Policy or Public Health); and Private research institutes. In addition, any individual with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Project Director/Principal Investigator is invited to work with his/her institution to develop an application for support.