COVID-19 Research Grant Awards
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), announced the approval of 28 research grants designed to explore essential questions about the delivery of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research projects will focus on areas such as the increased use of telehealth, best practices in rural care settings, emergency management in hospitals, addressing critical barriers to effective pandemic response in hospital that care for vulnerable populations, and improving clinician and safety. The research will be conducted in numerous healthcare environments, including hospitals, primary care and other ambulatory care settings, pre-hospital care, long-term and nursing home care, home health care, mental health and substance use care, pharmacy, and transitions of care between settings.
The grants have been awarded in two categories:
- Funding for new projects to research the healthcare system’s COVID-19 response in four areas: improving the quality of care and patient outcomes; improving patient safety; understanding the pandemic’s impact on socially vulnerable populations and people with multiple chronic conditions; and understanding how digital health innovations such as telehealth contributed to the health system response to COVID-19.
- Funding to supplement existing projects so that they may be refocused on COVID-19 topics.
See below for more information about the research projects.
Funding for New Research Projects on COVID-19
| Grant Title | Principal Investigator (PI) and Award Information |
|---|---|
| Quality, Safety, Value: Impact of sudden shift to telehealth due to COVID-19 within Nurse-led care models located in Colorado rural and urban communities | Grant #: R01-HS28085-01 PI: Barton, Amy Location: University of Colorado, Denver, CO Award Amount: $491,293 |
| Care and Safety Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Home-Based Long-term Services and Supports | Grant #: R01 HS28172-01 PI: Wendel-Hummell, Carrie Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Award Amount: $646,620 |
| Rapid Understanding of Best Practices in Rural Intensive Care (RUBRIC) | Grant #: R01 HS28038-01 PI: Valley, Thomas Sebastian Location: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI Award Amount: $499,999 |
| The Role of Telehealth in COVID-19 Response | Grant #: R01 HS28127-01 PI: Meeker, Daniella Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Award Amount: $482,844 |
| Evaluating and Enhancing Health Information Technology for COVID-19 Response Workflow in a Specialized COVID-19 in a Medically Underserved Community | Grant #: R01 HS28220-01 PI: Kaufman, David Location: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Albany, NY Award Amount: $452,992 |
| Modeling Nursing homes to Affect Response to COVID-19 (MONARC) | Grant #: R01 HS28165-01 PI: Lee, Bruce Y Location: Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY Award Amount: $500,000 |
| Deriving an Evidence Base for Emergency Management in U.S. Hospitals: Toward Resilience in the Midst of COVID-19 | Grant #: R01 HS28240-01 PI: Atkinson, Mariam Krikorian Location: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA Award Amount: $416,298 |
| Leveraging Health System Telehealth and Informatics Infrastructure to Create a Continuum of Services for COVID-19 Screening, Testing, and Treatment: A Learning Health System Approach | Grant #: R01 HS28284-01 PI: Simpson, Kit N Location: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC Award Amount: $499,961 |
| Improving patient and clinician safety during COVID-19 through a rapidly adaptive simulation intervention | Grant #: R01 HS28340-01 PI: Evans, Leigh V Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Award Amount: $499,847 |
| People are Primary: Examining the Response, Capacity, and Future Implications of US Primary Care Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Grant #: R01 HS28253-01 PI: Etz, Rebecca Sarah Location: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Award Amount: $491,317 |
| Novel, High-Impact Studies Evaluating Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19 | Grant #: R01HS28283-01 PI: Shenkman, Elizabeth Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Award Amount: $497,064 |
| Responses of the Program of All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) Organizations to COVID-19 Challenges: Effects and Lessons Learned | Grant #: R01 HS28321-01 PI: Stanik, Christine Location: Altarum Institute, Ann Arbor, MI Award Amount: $490,136 |
| A Multi-Site Evaluation of Primary Care Accessibility and Utilization during COVID-19 | Grant #: R01 HS28255-01 PI: Ratwani, Raj M Location: Medstar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD Award Amount: $499,569 |
| Infection Control Measures in Dialysis Facilities after COVID-19: Disparities in Adoption and Impact on Hospitalization and Mortality | Grant #: R01 HS28285-01 PI: Trivedi, Amal Location: Brown University, Providence, RI Award Amount: $479,495 |
Supplemental Funding for Existing Projects to Refocus on COVID-19
| Grant Title | Principal Investigator (PI) and Award Information |
|---|---|
| PA-20-070: Evaluating home healthcare agency and home healthcare professional responsiveness to safety threats during older adults' care transitions in the era of COVID-19 | Grant #: 3 R01 HS26599-02S1 PI: Arbaje, Alicia Ines Location: Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD Award Amount: $485,173 |
| A Chicago Center of Excellence in Learning Health Systems Research Training(ACCELERAT) | Grant #: 3 K12 HS26385-02S1 PI: Kho, Abel N Location: Northwestern University at Chicago, Evansville, IL Award Amount: $75,148 |
| Stakeholder-Partnered Implementation Research and Innovation Translation (SPIRIT) program | Grant #: K12 HS26407-02S1 PI: Ong, Michael Location: University of California, Los Angeles, CA Award Amount: $81,000 |
| PA-20-070: The PIPA (Pediatric Inpatient Pathways for Asthma) Study: Optimizing Quality of Hospital Care for Children with Asthma | Grant #: K08 HS24592-05S1 PI: Kaiser, Sunitha Location: University of California, San Francisco, CA Award Amount: $27,000 |
| PA-20-072, Measuring the Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated with Delivery Systems: "Are Health Systems Better at Responding to Pandemics?" | Grant #: U19 HS24072-05S1 PI: Cutler, David M Location: National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA Award Amount: $2,348,744 |
| PA-20-072: Accelerating the Use of Evidence-based Innovation in Healthcare Systems | Grant #: U19 HS24075-05S1 PI: Meara, Ellen R. Location: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Award Amount: $2,396,689 |
| Improving Child Health and Healthcare through Dissemination and Implementation of Pediatric Quality Measures: Adapting the Child Clinician and Group CAHPS Survey for Pediatric Telemedicine Visits | Grant #: U18 HS25299-04S1 PI: Toomey, Sara Louise Location: Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA Award Amount: $674,319 |
| PA-20-070 "Development of evidence-based decision support for the management of COVID19" | Grant #: R01 HS24917-05S1 PI: Djulbegovic, Benjamin Location: Beckman Research Institute/City of Hope, Duarte, CA Award Amount: $399,999 |
| Identifying Predictors of Hospital Admission from the ED Among the Elderly | Grant #: R01 HS25408-03S1 PI: Landon, Bruce E Location: Harvard University Medical School, Boston, MA Award Amount: $398,823 |
| PROMIS Learning Lab: Partnership in Resilience for Medication Safety | Grant #: R18 HS27277-01S1 PI: Xiao, Yan Location: University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Award Amount: $375,977 |
| PA-20-070 Improving Medication Safety and Nursing Workflow during COVID Through eMAR Redesign | Grant #: R01 HS25136-03S1 PI: Ratwani, Raj M Location: Medstar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD Award Amount: $245,263 |
| PA-20-070: Addressing the Delivery of School-Based Services in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic | Grant #: R01 HS25430-01S1 PI: Mitchell, Jean Location: Georgetown University, Washington, DC Award Amount: $399,933 |
| Implementation of a Novel Multi-Platform Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support System | Grant #: R18 HS26196-02S1 PI: Spyropoulos, Alex Location: Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY Award Amount: $400,000 |
| PA-20-070 Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes into Routine Primary Care: Monitoring Asthma Between Visits | Grant #: R18 HS26432-02S1 PI: Rudin, Robert Location: Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA Award Amount: $468,018 |
