The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has announced the availability of funding for Health Services Research and Demonstration Projects. Projects must focus on one of AHRQ’s specific priority focus areas – including improving health care quality by accelerating the implementation of comparative effectiveness research, making health care safer, increasing accessibility by evaluating expansions of insurance coverage, and improving health care affordability, efficiency, and cost transparency.

Virtually all entities are eligible to apply. Awards will be up to five-years each. Applications are due by September 25, 2014.