Introducing the SIREN Grantees funded through our Innovation Grants Program

We’re excited to announce the three exciting research projects funded through our SIREN Innovation Grants program. The program was developed to advance our mission of catalyzing and disseminating high quality research on strategies for addressing patients’ basic resource needs as part of high quality clinical care. Our first Call for Proposals requested proposals that could add to our understanding of the health care cost and utilization impacts of interventions initiated in the context of health care delivery that target patients’ social and economic hardships. We look forward to working with the research groups over the course of the next two years.

Cost-benefit analysis of housing prescriptions as health care, a pilot study
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH
Children’s HealthWatch, Boston Medical Center

Targeting Social Needs to Reduce the Total Cost of Care: Evaluating the Impact of a Clinic-Based Community Resource Desk Intervention
Bill Wright, PhD
Providence Portland Medical Center

Utilization and cost impact of a Community Health Navigator intervention to address social needs: A randomized controlled trial
Claudia L. Nau, PhD
Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

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