Agency for Health Care and Palliative Research
The agency supports research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services.

Alabamians for Better Care at Life's End
A statewide coalition that focuses on improving end-of-life care in vulnerable, rural, and minority communities in Alabama.

Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University
The center focuses on advancing the fields of gerontology and health services research through both methodological and substantive research—informed by basic theories of aging, human development and the illness experience.

Community-State Partnerships To Improve End-of-Life Care
A grant program based on the belief that the actions and decisions of individual patients, families, and professionals regarding end-of-life care can be greatly enhanced if they take place in a supportive policy context.

Health Policy Tracking Service
HPTS is the preeminent communications and information organization that identifies, researches, monitors, and reports on state health legislation, policies, and programs that affect the private and public sectors.

International Association for the Study of Pain
IASP is open to scientists, physicians, dentists, psychologists, nurses, physical therapists, and other health professionals actively engaged in pain research and to those who have an interest in the treatment of pain.

Mapi Research Institute
The institute is a non-profit international health outcomes organization established to support and promote research in the field of health-related quality of life.

National Coalition on Health Care
A nonpartisan alliance comprised of 96 groups that are working to improve health care in the United States.

National Institute for Nursing Research
NINR supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the lifespan.

The Commonwealth Fund
The fund engages in independent research on health and social policy issues.

The International Longevity Center
The center is a not-for-profit, non-partisan research and education organization whose mission is to help societies address longevity and population aging in positive and productive ways and highlight older people's productivity and contributions to their families and society as a whole.

UW Pain and Policy Studies Group
The group studies public policy in relation to pain management, identifying and addressing the barriers to medical use of opioid analgesics.

West Virginia Initiative to Improve End-of-Life Care
A statewide, multidisciplinary, comprehensive, and publicly participatory effort to improve all aspects of end-of-life care for the citizens of West Virginia.