The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.5 million in federal funds to create a primary care research hub in the Pacific Northwest; the funds bring together ORPRN along with the WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) Practice and Research Network (WPRN) to build connections between research and clinical practices. 

The hub, known as the Primary Care Rural and Frontier Clinical Trials Innovation Center to Advance Health Equity (PRaCTICE) Network Research Hub (NRH), aims to create infrastructure that integrates innovative research with routine clinical care with communities that are traditionally underrepresented in clinical research.

The new hub joins two other hubs across the U.S. that will implement practice-based study designs to address common health issues, including disease prevention. For more information, read the full article on OHSU News.