Transforming Health Care Through Evidence and Collaboration
Transforming Health Care Through Evidence and Collaboration

Investigator-Initiated Research Grants

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NIHCM Foundation supports innovative investigator-initiated research with high potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system. Projects must advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy. In the first seven years of the program, we have awarded nearly $2.1 million to support 37 studies.

 

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Application Information

The 2019-2020 round of grant making for this program is now underway. NIHCM Foundation is making approximately $500,000 available and expects to fund 8 to 9 studies from this amount.

Winning studies will be selected using the following process:

  • Interested researchers must submit a brief letter of inquiry (LOI) outlining their study idea by 5:00 PM EDT on July 9, 2019. Applications are welcome at any time prior to that deadline. LOIs must conform to the required structure and must be submitted using NIHCM’s online entry system (see below).
  • Full (10-page) proposals will be invited from a small number of applicants in August and will be due in September 2019.
  • NIHCM will notify grant winners in November 2019, for project start dates as early as January 2020.

LOI Requirements Online Entry System

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Susan Sawning, University of Louisville School of Medicine
This manual contains a toolkit that other medical schools can adopt to update their training curricula, and that can help current practitioners improve their knowledge and skills regarding LGBTQ care.
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Gary Young, Northeastern University
This paper describes significant levels of inappropriate use of MRIs and X-rays, relative to clinical guidelines, for uncomplicated low back pain and non-traumatic knee and shoulder pain.
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Zach Cooper, Yale University
This paper shows that the majority of the 2007-2014 growth in total private insurer payments for common hospital services was driven by a rapid increase in the negotiated payments for hospitals rather than escalating prices paid to physicians. 
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This work suggests the importance of addressing social determinants of health as an additional lever in the efforts to reduce neonatal abstinence syndrome.