Patient-Oriented Research Development Award

Often, basic science researchers struggle to engage patients/the public in the development of their research because of the difficulty of communicating about highly specific topics in plain language. On the other hand, while “knowledge users” have long been engaged in program evaluation, the movement to include community-led and based programming in “health research” is fairly new, but very necessary, as we continue to improve our understanding of the social determinants of health. In both cases, patient-oriented research methods can help to improve the translation and mobilization of research and evaluation outcomes and the overall quality of projects. To that end, we have created this Patient-Oriented Research Development Award in the hopes of bridging two important gaps along the research continuum.

This fund will remain open to applications throughout the year. The value of this award will be up to $10,000 per project. The length of this award is one year. Projects must conclude and all funds must be spent prior to February 29, 2028.

We highly encourage the evaluation of patient/public engagement in all work funded by NL SUPPORT. Please review Learning Together Evaluation Framework for Patient and Public Engagement (PPE) in research for information about indicators to consider when evaluating patient/public engagement. Following completion of your project, we will ask all members of the project team to report on patient/public engagement using a standard survey to outline how people with lived/living experience were involved in the project.