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The
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) initiative,
a program of The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, strives to bridge the health policy and
health services research communities by reaching two primary objectives:
- to
provide public and private decision-makers with usable and timely
information on health care policy, financing, and market developments,
and
- to
bring together the policy and research communities through significant
convening, issues identification, research translation, and communication
activities.
HCFO
supports investigator-initiated research
and policy analysis, evaluation,
and demonstration projects
examining major changes in health care financing, and their effects
on cost, access, or quality. We also conduct invitational working
conferences, and disseminate findings through research translation
and communications activities. AcademyHealth
provides overall direction and technical assistance for the program.
HCFO-funded projects, along with the dissemination of findings through meetings and publications, create synergies around important topics. For more information about the synergies among HCFO grantmaking, convening, and dissemination, see the HCFO Synergy Report.
Reauthorized
five times since its inception in 1989, the HCFO initiative is currently
authorized for $12 million. The program features a rolling online
grant application process that provides feedback and assistance
to applicants and grantees. Proposals may be peer reviewed by selected external reviewers who have extensive technical knowledge or expertise on the particular topic or methodology. Before you apply for funding,
take a look around our site to see if your project is similar to
others we have funded. You can:
You
may submit small grant proposals
for projects costing less than $100,000 and expected to last one
year or less. If you prefer, you may submit a brief proposal before
a full proposal. For projects costing more than $100,000 and/or
lasting longer than one year, you must submit a brief proposal,
which undergoes review and may result in an invitation to submit
a large grant application.
If
you have questions after you've searched our site, please contact
our staff by phone or e-mail. We are happy
to talk to prospective applicants but cannot review written documents
or officially recommend or reject an idea over the phone. We can,
however, provide a sense of the questions that reviewers will ask
to assist you in deciding whether to prepare an application. We
can also guide you to additional resources. We often include blinded
reviews of full proposals with letters to the applicant, but due
to the large volume of applications we receive, we are unable to
provide individual critiques of brief proposals.
We
conduct invitational meetings
designed to bring together key players in the public policy process
and in the health care market. These working conferences are designed
to foster debate and discussion on policy-relevant topics, highlight
HCFO-funded research projects, and raise new issues worthy of further
exploration.
To
connect decision-makers with research findings, works in progress,
and thought leaders, HCFO disseminates through this site and our
publications grantee findings, the results of working meetings,
and links to current research projects. Learn about what's
new with the HCFO program and our grantees. Check out our hot
topics to learn what our grantees have published on timely health
care policy and financing issues. Our grantee
spotlight highlights new grantees and grantees who published
recently.
Our publications include a newsletter, findings briefs and issue briefs, which highlight
our grantmaking activities and our grantees' findings. In addition,
the program publishes reports that
focus on topics of particular significance to public and private
decision-makers.
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