1. Changing Response to AHRQ’s Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) 2009 -2014
To be presented at APHA on Tuesday, November 18 at 4:30 pm. Contact information for Rebecca Trocki is
Rebecca Trocki, MSHAI, Shyam Misra, MD, PHD, Kishena Wadhwani, PhD, MPH, Francis Chesley, MD Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations

2. AHRQ Mission and Priorities
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) mission To produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
AHRQ’s priority areas of focus are:
Improve health care quality by accelerating implementation of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)
Make health care safer
Increase accessibility to health care
Improve health care affordability, efficiency, and cost transparency

3. Introduction This presentation will focus on:
Define AHRQ’s research priorities from
Describe AHRQ’s Grant Processes
Evaluate AHRQ’s funding levels by Year and Major Programs
Conclusions

4. Division of Scientific Review Mission Statement
Extramural Grant applications submitted to the AHRQ will be evaluated via the AHRQ peer review process
to ensure a fair
equitable
unbiased evaluation of their scientific and technical merit.

5. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Grants Process
Notice of Grant Award (NGA)
AHRQ HOLDS Funding Meeting
AHRQ Evaluates and Scores all Applications using a 9 point scale
Summary Statement
AHRQ Assigns and Reviews Grant Applications
Study Section (SS)
Special Emphasis Panels
AHRQ Solicits Grant Applications
PA (Program ( Announcements)
RFA (Request for Applications)

6. RESULTS: AHRQ FUNDING 2009- 2014
As Shown by the Charts Below:
Overall, AHRQ Funding from 2009 – 2014 with a total number of applications reviewed at 6,060 applications with a funding rate of 21.99%
The highest number of applications received were in 2010 and with consistent funding rate of over 14.53% and averaging 20%
Program Announcements (PAs): 3,927 applications and Request for Applications (RFAs): 600 applications, have a similar funding rate of approximately 20%
AHRQ Announces Intent to Publish Grant and Contract Solicitations for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Projects with Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

7. RESULTS: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
ARRA-related RFAs issued in Fiscal Year 2010:
Provided $1.1 billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). The Act allocated $300 million to AHRQ, and $400 million to the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to advance the methodology of CER and provides training grants to enhance the pool of researchers who can perform CER
Over 2010, AHRQ received over 540 applications with a funding rate of 20.77%
AHRQ Announces Intent to Publish Grant and Contract Solicitations for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Projects with Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

8. FUNDING RESULTS: PATIENT CENTER OUTCOME RESEARCH (PCOR) RFAs
AHRQ intends to promote several new initiatives by publishing Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to solicit applications for research on Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR).
Over 2012 – AHRQ received applications under PA/RFA Funding Opportunity Announcements over 450 applications with an approximately funding rate of 25.75%
Notice of Intent to Publish Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Funding Opportunity Announcements