Contact:
Martin L. Brown, Ph.D.
Chief, Health Services and Economics Branch
Applied Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
6130 Executive Blvd, Rm. EPN-4005
Bethesda, MD 20892-7344
Phone: 301-496-5716
Fax: 301-435-3710
Email: mb53o@nih.gov
Objective of Project:
The goal of this initiative is to generate new economic knowledge that will promote the optimal design of cancer prevention and control trial studies and interventions and will facilitate the formulation of effective health care policy related to cancer prevention and control. NCI has an interest in economic and health services studies with particular emphasis on meeting the goals of the NCI Quality of Cancer Care Initiative (http://plan.cancer.gov/public/quality.htm) The overall goal of this initiative is to enhance the state of the science on the quality of cancer care and inform federal decision making on care delivery, coverage, and regulation. This initiative requests research applications on new methods development, the synthesis and extension of existing methods, and innovative data gathering strategies. Applications that propose to implement actual data collection on a pilot or full-scale basis as well as analytical studies that use existing data and methodology may also be submitted.
Description of Project:
This initiative supports research directed at increasing our understanding of economic aspects of cancer prevention, screening and care. Cancer is a heterogeneous chronic disease, which requires innovation in treatment and care approaches. Studies proposed in response to this initiative will be expected to address these issues and propose innovative methods.
Examples of research topics that would be considered relevant to meeting the goals of this initiative include: