United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Portland VAMC Research and Development Service

Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D)
Merit Review Program

For more information, see the national VA HSR&D home page. (VA Web Site).

What is Health Services Research? (VA Web Site)

A PI interested in submitting an HSR&D Merit Review application should complete the HSR&D, RR&D Merit Review Submission Questionnaire (50KB, MSWord) and submit it to the Research Service Office.

Local Submission Calendar (34KB, MSWord)
All R&D Services Submission Calendar (VA Web Site)

Intent to Submit (ITS)
HSR&D requires notification of an investigator’s intent to submit a proposal for merit review. The ITS is submitted online through the ART program, which is a VA HSR&D reporting tool that gathers, tracks, and organizes data from all HSR&D Centers. The Research Service Staff will submit the ITS information for you through this website.

Please fill out the Intent to Submit List of Information Needed (23KB, MSWord) form electronically and return it to the Research Service Office at pvamc-merit@va.gov.


Instructions for HSR&D Merit Review Proposal
HSR&D Detailed Instructions for Preparing Research Applications for Scientific
Merit Review
(VA Web Site, PDF)
PDF Guidelines for HSR&D Proposals (VA Web Site, PDF)
Checklist (28KB, MSWord)

Forms
Individual pages 1-8 (MSWord documents from VA Web Sites):
10-1313-1
10-1313-2
10-1313-3
10-1313-4
10-1313-5/6

Questions
Please direct all inquiries to Danielle Beaudry at extension 57524 or by email at pvamc-merit@va.gov.