Staff and Operating Division Grant Portfolios: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Mission: To improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.

AHRQ Totals by Award Class
Award Class Awards Dollars
Discretionary 505 $102,571,629
Mandatory 0 $0
Total 505 $102,571,629

AHRQ is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of healthcare, reduce its cost, improve patient safety, decrease medical errors, and broaden access to essential services.

AHRQ awards discretionary grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to carry out research projects, demonstrations, evaluations, and dissemination activities. AHRQ's research projects examine the availability, quality, and costs of health care services; ways to improve the effectiveness and appropriateness of clinical practice, including the prevention of disease; and other areas of health services research, such as services for persons with HIV infection. The information helps healthcare decision makers—patients and clinicians, health system leaders, and policymakers—make more informed decisions and improve the quality of healthcare services.

AHRQ also supports small grants, conference grants, and training through dissertation grants and National Research Service Awards.

AHRQ Discretionary - All CFDA Programs
CFDA Program Name Awards Dollars
93.225 National Research Service Awards, Health Services Research 37 $8,185,810
93.226 Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes 468 $94,385,819

Pie Chart showing the percentages of AHRQ grant dollars by award activity in FY 2005.

URL: http://www.ahrq.gov

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