Research Grants

AMCP and AMCP Foundation have identified specific research questions within two priorities of the real-world evidence pillar of the managed care pharmacy research agenda. Contact AMCP Foundation to partner and fund research teams leading projects focused on the below aims.

Disparities in Designing & Delivering Health Care:

1. How managed care tools intersect with health care disparities.
   1. Propose, implement and measure impact of a reduction in barriers to access for diverse populations.
2. How adherence is impacted by health care disparities (in a relevant disease area, with managed care-specific quality measures that incorporate race/ethnicity, considering variance in serious adverse events).
   1. Stratify adherence by racial/ethnic disparities and other SDoH.
3. How differences in race/ethnicity, SDoH and socio-economic status impact ability to afford a medication across different benefit designs. 
   1. Establish price elasticity of demand for major therapeutic classes, and bring voice of health plan member.

Expedited Approvals:

1. Data collection tool to contribute relevant RWE, sites, data aggregation and analysis.
2. Framework or map of links between surrogate endpoints and meaningful outcomes to inform secondary formulary decisions and document potential clinical impact of relevant surrogate markers.
3. Optimize sequencing in a specific cancer or other disease category. 
   1. Impact of genetic and/or molecular testing to target therapy, vs. standard approaches to therapy selection.