Two of the allocations, totaling $2.6 million, are going to the University of Pittsburgh to set up training programs to educate scholars who want to pursue comparative effectiveness research research. (Several other Pitt research projects also have been funded by HHS.)
The comparative effectiveness research training program is one of the first in the country, said Bea Herbeck Belnap, coordinator of Pitt's new program. The need to train clinicians and Ph.D.s in these research techniques is acute, Ms. Herbeck Belnap said.
"Comparative effectiveness research is very new," she said. "You need to be familiar with certain methodologies. You need to be able to compare treatments."
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