For provider organizations that wish to collaborate with an academic institution or research group, what is the eligible partnership arrangement?
Grants awarded under Finding Answers will go to organizations that administratively house and directly provide the intervention to reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities. All interventions proposed for evaluation must occur within the direct context of a consistent source of medical care or delivery. Thus, for proposed partnerships, the organization delivering the intervention should be the primary/lead applicant. However, eligible institutions may partner/sub-contract with academic or research groups with evaluation expertise. In cases such as this, there may be one or more principal investigators. The first principal investigator must be at an eligible primary/lead applicant organization and must have direct administrative oversight of the intervention proposed for evaluation and the staff that deliver the intervention. To accommodate these requirements, Finding Answers is flexible regarding the educational background of the first principal investigator. There can also be a
