Funding Opportunities

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) intends to issue a PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) on April 1, 2026, seeking to fund studies that build an evidence base on engagement in research, including: • Measures to capture structure or context, process and outcomes of engagement in research. • Techniques that lead to effective engagement in research. • How effective engagement techniques should be modified and resourced for different contexts, settings and communities. This preannouncement provides potential applicants additional time to identify collaborators; obtain patient and stakeholder input on potential studies; and develop responsive, high-quality applications. Applications focused on patient engagement in clinical or self care are not responsive to this PFA. This includes clinical shared decision-making interventions, interventions to increase patient engagement with recommended treatments or preventive measures or interventions to increase use of recommended interventions by populations. For example, a study to develop and/or test an intervention to increase patient persistence in the use of guideline-recommended medication is not responsive. This PFA is focused on engagement of partners in research, i.e., the lifecycle of planning, conducting and disseminating research projects.