Engagement Award: Capacity Building — Fall 2026 Cycle
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Builds the capacity and skills of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community to engage in all phases of patient-centered CER, and strengthens researchers' skills as partners. Does not fund research studies themselves.
- Indicative award
- up to $300k (total award)Award total costs may not exceed $300,000 (direct plus indirect) over a maximum two-year project period. No minimum published.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Mar, OctPublished deadline: 2026-10-01 — 48 days awayPFA opened Aug. 4, 2026. LOI deadline Oct. 1, 2026, 5 pm ET; invited application deadline Jan. 11, 2027, 5 pm ET; earliest start July 1, 2027. Spring and Fall cycles each year.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Open to organisations proposing capacity-building (not research) projects, including prior Engagement Award awardees returning to grow their work; every project must show how it builds capacity for patient-centered CER. LOI required; full application by PCORI invitation only.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- research capacity building · stakeholder engagement · patient-centered cer · researcher training
- Apply at
- https://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/announcement/engagement-award-capacity-building-fall-2026-cycle
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
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