The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 has dedicated $1.1B to bolster new comparative effectiveness research (CER), patient registries, infrastructure, and dissemination for a period of two years: $300M for Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), $400M for National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $400M for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). ARRA provided this money in an effort to understand how to better prevent, diagnose, and/or treat diseases throughout the country.
National Medical Research Day, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges, was held on October 21, 2009. The event celebrated the importance and impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and biomedical research. ResearchMeansHope.org, a community of concerned patients, physicians, and researchers from U.S. medical schools throughout the country, hosted a press conference on National Medical Research Day in Washington, D.C.
