Health services research grants
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Funds research on how care is organised, delivered, paid for and made safer — including the social care integration and care-coordination questions social workers own in practice.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)AHRQ uses NIH activity codes with its own budget ceilings, which sit below the NIH equivalents.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Feb, Jun, OctNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Standard NIH-style due dates plus AHRQ-specific announcements.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- US institutions. AHRQ's portfolio is narrower than NIH's — read the current priority areas before choosing it over an NIH institute.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- health services · care coordination · patient safety · social care integration
- Apply at
- https://www.ahrq.gov/funding/index.html
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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