The Health Services Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) at the San Francisco Veterans
Affairs Medical Center is a VA HSR&D-funded initiative to increase Health Services Research
capacity at the Medical Center by supporting research that will improve the quality of health
care for veterans with complex comorbid conditions, as well as set standards for care for the
general public.
REAP standards are attained with such things as functional research space, analytic laboratory
staff, methodologic expertise in health economics and implementation science and includes
partnerships with academic and other institutional affiliates. Through grant facilitation
and management for REAP principal investigators, providing direct salary support to HSR
Investigators for mentoring, and core methodological support, and providing outreach to
foster HSR by principal investigators from under-represented specialties, our goals to serve
veterans and the public come to fruition.
