The Blueprint: Paradigm Project Updates
This month’s edition of the Blueprint highlights the newest Paradigm Project-commissioned Horizon Scan, “Innovative Funding Models During COVID-19,” which looks at the novel approaches to funding leveraged during the pandemic.
A new Paradigm Project-commissioned Horizon Scan, “Innovative Funding Models During COVID-19,” looks at the novel approaches to funding leveraged during the pandemic, which could provide a roadmap for shifting the health services research paradigm to more rapidly fund timely research. Authored by Susan Guthrie, a research leader at RAND Europe, the paper builds on the previous report, “Innovating in the Research Funding Process: Peer Review Alternatives and Adaptations,” to highlight how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated innovations in coordinated, targeted, timely health services research funding. The paper examines the following approaches to funding:
- Public engagement and crowdfunding
- Flexibility in use of funding and resources
- Adapting application and decision processes to ‘fast-track’ funding
- Prizes
- Coordination and access of research resources
Additional information can be found at AcademyHealth.org/ParadigmProject.