Submit your letter of interest for PCORI Engagement Funding Opportunities
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has opened the Engagement Award Program funding opportunities for the Fall 2026 cycle. These opportunities support efforts to bring more patients, caregivers, clinicians and other healthcare decision makers into the research process. Letters of Intent (LOI) are open for the following announcements:
- Aims to build the capacity and skills of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community to engage in all phases of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER).
- Supports projects that help organizations and communities effectively communicate relevant PCORI-funded research results to patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community. These projects aim to capture audiences’ attention and encourage them to use this information when making healthcare decisions. Projects must focus on active dissemination that spread awareness and increase knowledge of PCORI-funded research results.
- Supports projects that include multi-party convenings, meetings and conferences which bring together communities of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community.
- Addresses and helps stakeholders build their capacity to take part in patient-centered CER with technical assistance, mentorship, and learning from other small organizations and PCORI stakeholders.
Deadline: LOIs are due on Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. ET.
LOIs submitted under these funding announcements will be reviewed within 60 calendar days of the submission deadline. Full proposal submissions are by invitation only, after review and approval of the LOI. Proposals will be reviewed within 90 calendar days of the proposal submission deadline and PCORI will notify applicants of their status via e-mail. Full proposals are due Jan. 11, 2027 by 5 p.m. ET.
The PCORI Engagement Award Program is intended to bring more patients, caregivers, clinicians and other healthcare stakeholders into the research process. The goal is to support projects that will build a community better able to participate in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) and serve as channels to disseminate study results. This is central to PCORI’s mission to fund useful CER that will help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions.
For more information on the Engagement Award Program visit the PCORI website, or submit a request to speak with PCORI program staff member during virtual “office hours” for more complex questions and to discuss the programmatic fit of project ideas.
