AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36)
(PAR-09-212)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): February 1, May 1, August 1, and
November 1 annually, beginning November 1, 2009
Applications for dissertation research grants must be responsive to AHRQ’s
mission, which is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness
of health care for all Americans.
AHRQ has identified strategic goals as priority research areas. Research
applications must address one of these areas.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to focus on topical areas unique to
AHRQ, demonstrating how expected results can be used or made available for use
to enhance healthcare quality. Results
should be directly relevant to customers, such as providers and practitioners,
administrators, payers, consumers, policymakers, and insurers. The strategic research goals are:
* Safety/quality – Reduce the risk of
harm from health care services by promoting the delivery of appropriate care
that achieves the best quality outcomes
* Efficiency – Achieve wider access
to effective health care services and reduce health care costs
* Effectiveness – Assure that
providers and consumers/patients use beneficial and timely health care
information to make informed decision choices.
AHRQ has particular interest in supporting dissertation projects in the
following areas: comparative
effectiveness, health information technology (health IT), patient safety,
prevention and care management, value, and healthcare innovations.
