The NIA IMPACT Collaboratory is pleased to announce three new funding opportunities; Pilot Grants Cycle 3A, and funding opportunities for two new programs, Demonstration Projects and Health Care Systems (HCS) Scholars . These three funding opportunities will support research and training aimed at increasing the nation’s capacity to conduct pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) of non-pharmacological interventions within health care systems to improve the care of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) and their care partners.
Demonstration Projects Program
The IMPACT Collaboratory will fund up to two Demonstration Projects (maximum duration 24 months) designed as full-scale, Stage IV effectiveness ePCT (based on the NIH Stage Model) that test non-pharmacological interventions for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners embedded within and linked to the needs of a health care system. The goal of the Demonstration Projects is to generate evidence on effective care delivery practices that can be expanded and/or implemented in other systems. Interventions must be linked to the needs of a health care system. The intervention will typically encompass relatively simple system changes or direct patient outreach, or successfully piloted programs ready for testing at scale. Preference will be given to applications for Demonstration Projects that address dementia care for populations traditionally marginalized or underrepresented in clinical trials and those that promote health equity.
HCS Scholars Program
The new Health Care Systems (HCS) Embedded Research Scholars Program offers junior and senior investigators an opportunity to work directly with health care systems interested in improving the care provided to people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners. The goals of the HCS Scholars Program are to embed investigators in health care systems to:
- Establish mutually beneficial partnerships to improve the care of PLWD and care partners
- Train investigators about health care settings needs and how new programs are successfully introduced at all levels of the organization
- Engage HCS in learning more about what it means to conduct ePCTs and provide resources for understanding opportunities for improvement in dementia care or evaluation of related quality improvement projects
- Strengthen collaborations between investigators and HCS that may lead to pilot studies or demonstration projects.
Pilot Grant Program –Cycle 3A
The IMPACT Collaboratory funds several one-year pilot studies annually; these are meant to generate the preliminary data necessary to design and conduct a future full-scale Stage IV effectiveness ePCT (based on the NIH Stage Model) funded through other grant mechanisms (National Institutes of Health or other sources). The IMPACT Collaboratory will consider applications for pilot ePCTs that test non-pharmacological interventions embedded in health care system(s) for people living with AD/ADRD and their care partners. All applications should make a convincing case that the pilot ePCT proposed can be scaled up to a full-scale, Stage IV effectiveness ePCT as the next step.
Please check upcoming events for webinars for each opportunity, as well as the IMPACT Twitter feed and mailing list for additional updates.