Posts Tagged ‘AHRQ’

The error correction window will be eliminated for all NIH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) grants with deadlines on or after January 25, 2011, according to a notice  released on Thursday (NOT-OD-10-123).  Applicants will no longer have a grace period after the deadline passes to make changes to your proposal if the system rejects the application. Please be aware that OHSU is in the … Read More

On June 22, AHRQ released a notice (NOT-HS-10-018) to announce a new special emphasis: grants focused on health risk assessments (HA) in primary care settings. AHRQ’s goal is to use HA to improve the delivery of preventive care, and to improve communication between patients and clinicians. Specifically, AHRQ will be funding grant applications that prose research in the following areas: The prediction of risk using HAs in the general adult, adolescent, and pediatric primary care … Read More

See each announcement for deadline dates and funding amounts. The NIH and AHRQ have reissued three funding opportunities for Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy: an R01, an R03, and an R21. Health literacy is, “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” The purpose of these awards is to encourage empirical research on health literacy concepts, theory and interventions … Read More

The NIH/AHRQ ARRA stimulus table has been updated with many new Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality funding opportunities. Link to the updated table here. The table is updated as new opportunities are announced. You can always access the latest version of the table on this website by clicking on the “economic stimulus” category [on the right] to find the most recent post.

The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) announced that they will adopt many, but not all, of the NIH’s guidelines for enhancing peer review, evaluation, and proposal format changes starting with submissions on or after January 25th, 2010. Read the full notice here. Basically, many of the same changes apply, except for one large difference: AHRQ will not implement the same page limit restrictions; they will maintain the page limits they currently use. Each … Read More