If an academic group partners with a health care plan or provider organization, does the PI have to be from the plan or provider organization or can the PI be from the academic group?
There may be one or more principal investigators. One principal investigator must be at an eligible primary/lead applicant organization. The main eligibility criterion for this first principal investigator is that he or she has direct administrative oversight of the intervention proposed for evaluation and the staff that deliver the intervention. To accommodate these requirements, Finding Answers is flexible regarding the educational background of proposed principal investigators. There can also be another principal investigator at a partner/subcontract organization (for example, an academic collaborator from a university). Either the principal investigator at the lead applicant organization or a second principal investigator must be able to perform a rigorous evaluation of the intervention. PIs in addition to the lead organization PI are optional.
