AHRQ's Health Services Research Career Development Grant Program: New Starts

AHRQ's Health Services Research Career Development Grant Program: New Starts
Fiscal Year 2009

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This program brief describes AHRQ's grant program for health services research career development awards in three areas: the Mentored Clinical Research Scientist Program (K09), the Mentored Research Scientist Program (K01), and the Independent Scientist Award Program (K02). Career development awards made by AHRQ in FY 2009 are briefly described, and contact information is provided for specific programmatic questions.

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Contents
Introduction
Mentored Clinical Research Scientist Program (K08)
Mentored Research Scientist Program (K01)
Independent Scientist Award Program (K02)
More Information

Introduction
The mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is to improve the safety, quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. To help achieve the Agency's mission, AHRQ supports extramural research grants and contracts, research training, conference grants, and intramural activities.

AHRQ is committed to the development and nurturing of a cadre of clinical and research scientists who will focus their time and expertise on some of the most important problems facing our Nation's health care system. Toward this goal, AHRQ provides support for three career development programs. Each of these programs provides salary support for junior faculty or applied researchers, emerging leaders in the field, and/or those in career transition for an intensive research career development experience in health services research. AHRQ's three career development programs are:

.The Mentored Clinical Research Scientist Program (K08) provides support for a period of 3 to 5 years to individuals with a clinical doctoral degree. These individuals participate in a supervised research career development experience in health services research. The award can be used both by individuals who are new to heath services research training and those who have had a hiatus in their research careers because of illness or family circumstances.
..The Mentored Research Scientist Program (K01), which parallels the K08 program, is geared toward individuals who have research doctorates. This new program was initiated by AHRQ in FY 2009.
...The Independent Scientist Award Program (K02) fosters the further development of new health service researchers by offering them the potential to expand and make significant contributions to their field of research. The K02 award provides 3, 4, or 5 years of salary support and "protected time" to devote to their rersearch and career development.

In FY 2009, AHRQ awarded 32 career development grants, which are described here. Each entry includes information on the grantee and his or her research focus.

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