Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36)

The AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36) provides dissertation grants for doctoral candidates conducting health services research. This program supports dissertation research that addresses AHRQ's mission and priorities to produce evidence that makes health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable. The program welcomes any areas of health services research as dissertation project topics. Eligible candidates must be full-time doctoral students in good standing who have completed all non-dissertation requirements including qualifying exams. The program provides funding for stipends up to the current NRSA predoctoral level, up to $15,000 in other direct costs, and associated indirect costs limited to 8% of modified total direct costs. Project periods range from a minimum of 9 months up to 17 months. AHRQ's specific priority areas include research to improve health care patient safety, harnessing data and technology to improve health care quality and patient outcomes, and research to increase accessibility and affordability of health care through innovative care delivery and financing approaches.