Health Economics and Policy Pilot Program

Center for Health Economics and Policy (CHEP) Pilot Program

Awards will be made for up to $30,000 direct costs for 1 year to facilitate the planning of a new health economics and/or policy research project. Pilot grants are used to fund developmental or early stage work, including pilot data and preparation for submission of a grant proposal or peer-reviewed publication.

Letter of intent due February 28th. 

Research Themes: Types of Studies Supported

This program is designed to support a broad range of health economics and policy studies including, but not limited to, the following themes and examples:

·         Implications of Change in Existing Programs or Guidelines Established by Federal/State Policies.  Identify strategies to most effectively, equitably, and efficiently modify existing health policies or develop new policies or provide improved health outcomes.

·         Improve Methods for Health Economics and Policy Research: Development and/or use of applicable datasets, measures, and analyses to measure outcomes of policy change or the development of new policy parameters. 

·         Improving Health Care Affordability, Efficiency, and Cost Transparency: Including topic areas of reducing cost growth, comparing performance of systems and providers, analyzing incentives interventions aimed at improving performance.

·         Increasing Accessibility to Health Care: Including improving access to providers, decreasing disparities in health care access, improving access to health insurance, and the effects of the ACA on access.

·         Identify Core Criteria for Successful Public Health Policies: Evaluate contextual and environmental factors that influence the success of public health policies.

·         Understand Resources or Costs for Implementation or Non-implementation of New or Modified Health Policies: Evaluate changes in existing or potential policies for providers, systems or communities.

·         Analyze Policy Development to Determine Cost-Effectiveness of the Intervention.

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