This publication highlights research conducted by HSR and/or QUERI investigators, showcasing the importance of research for Veterans—and the importance of Veterans for research.

• Serving Those Who Served: Veterans' Donations of Research Incentives to Fellow Veterans - 11-2025
  - Features the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) in Palo Alto, CA; Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) in Durham, NC; and the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care.

• “Beyond Symptom Reduction”: Veteran-Centric Trauma-Focused PTSD Treatment - 09-2025
  - Features the Durham Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT); Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research (CeMHOR); Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

• Rural Veterans’ Thoughts on High Suicide Rates in Their Communities—and on What to Do About It - 07-2025
  - Features the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)

• Collaborative Groups Offer Healing for Veterans Suffering from Moral Injury - 05-2025
  - Features the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT)

• "If You Really Want to Be Successful, You Need to Be Engaged": Virtual Whole Health Groups Can Change Veteran Views On Health and Well-Being - 03-2025
  - Features the Center for Health Optimization and Implementation Research (CHOIR)

• How Veterans Feel About Genetic Testing for a Personalized Approach to Medications - 01-2025
  - Features the PHASER QUERI

• Journey Maps to Understand Veterans' Experiences with Food Insecurity - 11-2024
  - Features the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety

• "Something Has to Be Done to Make Women Feel Safe": Women Veterans' Recommendations for Strengthening the Veterans Crisis Line - 08-2024
  - Features the Veterans Crisis Line (VCL)

• “Moved by Love” Project Suggests Adaptations to Improve MOVE! for Black Veterans - 07-2024
  - Features the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i) and the Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value Driven Care (Seattle-Denver COIN)

• Homeless Veterans' Struggle During COVID-19 Pandemic - 05-2024
  - Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy (CSHIIP)

• Engagement Panels Bring Veterans' Perspectives to Pain/Opioid AMP Research Priorities - 03-2024
  - Features the Pain/Opioid Consortium of Research (CORE)

• Perceived Benefits of Geriatric Specialty Telemedicine among Rural Veterans and Caregivers - 01-2024
  - Features the Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research (CHOIR)

• Veteran Research Engagement Panel: Seven Years of Co-Designing Research - 11-2023
  - Features the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT)

• Giving Veterans an Active Voice in Creating a Chronic Pain Research Agenda - 09-2023
  - Features the Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare

• Peers Aid Veterans' Engagement with Mental Health Self-Care Mobile Apps - 07-2023
  - Features the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)

• Helping Homeless Veterans Cross the Digital Divide for Increased Access to Healthcare - 05-2023
  - Features the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research

• Spiritual Support for Veterans Re-entering the Community after Incarceration - 03-2023
  - Features the Bridge QUERI Program

• What Veterans Want Us to Know That We're Not Asking - 01-2023
  - Features the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Teams (H-PACTs)

• Veterans Crisis Line Gender Findings: Qualitative Interviews with Women Veterans - 11-2022
  - Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP)

• Black Veterans with Chronic Kidney Disease: Perspectives on Racism in Healthcare - 09-2022
  - Features the Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion (CHERP)

• ENCORE: Working with Stakeholders to Improve the Impact of Veteran Community Reintegration Research - 07-2022
  - Features the James A. Haley VA Hospital and Clinics in Tampa, Florida

• Reasons Why Women Veterans Leave or Stay in VA Healthcare - 05-2022
  - Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP) and Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)

• Pain/Opioid CORE Veteran Engagement Panel Brings Veterans' Perspective to HSR&D Research - 03-2022
  - Features the Pain/Opioid COnsortium of REsearch (CORE)

• Benefits of a Telehealth Approach to Treating Mental Illness among Veterans in Rural Settings - 01-2022
  - Features the Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)

• Growing Rural Outreach through Veteran Engagement (GROVE) - 12-2021
  - Features the Center for Growing Rural Outreach through Veteran Engagement (GROVE)

• Examining VA Leadership Support for Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies - 11-2021
  - Features the QUERI Center for Evaluating Patient-Centered Care (EPCC-VA)

• Engaging Family Supporters to Improve Veterans’ Diabetes Care: The CO-IMPACT Program and Toolkit - 10-2021
  - Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP)

• Veterans' Perspectives on VA's Intensive Primary Care Pilot Program - 09-2021
  - Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP)

• Pain Study Benefits from Veteran Engagement in Developing Recruitment Materials for African American Veterans - 07-2021
  - Features the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR)

• Veterans' Perspectives on Wellness Guide - 06-2021
  - Features the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt)

• VOICE Study Partners with Veteran Engagement Panel to Improve Pain Care, Reduce Harms of Opioid Therapy - 05-2021
  - Features the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR)

• Study Explores Veterans' Willingness to Discuss Firearms Safety in the Primary Care Setting - 04-2021
  - Features the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)

• Veteran Engagement Board Brings Lived Experience to OUD Treatment Implementation - 03-2021
  - Features the Consortium to Disseminate and Understand Implementation of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (CONDUIT)

• Holistic Health Promotion Program May Reduce Veterans' Risk for Suicidal Behaviors - 02-2021
  - Features the Center for Health Information and Communication (CHIC)

• The Importance of Being There for Veterans with Depression - 01-2021
  - Features the HSR&D Center of Innovation (COIN)

• Veterans Reveal Concerns in Communicating with Physicians about Diabetes - 12-2020
  

• Engaging Veterans with Lived Experience of Homelessness - 11-2020
  - Features the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR)

• Gender Differences in the Development of Suicidal Behavior - 10-2020
  - Features the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)

• MOVE!+UP Behavioral Weight Management Program for Veterans with PTSD - 09-2020
  - Features the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation

• Majority of Women Veterans Feel Welcome at VA - 07-2020
  - Features the Women’s Health Research Network (WHRN)

• Veterans' Views on Limited Resources: Help Sickest First - 05-2020
  - Features the Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR)

• PACT Social Work Staffing Program Evaluated by SERVE QUERI - 04-2020
  - Features the Social Work Effectiveness for Rural Veterans Evaluation (SERVE) QUERI

• How Engaged Research Improved A Diabetes Self-Management Tool for MyHealtheVet - 03-2020
  - Features the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR)

• Women's Health VA Stakeholders Discuss "Ideal" Care - 02-2020
  - Features the Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT)

• Mobile App for Weight Management Designed by and for Veterans with Serious Mental Illness - 01-2020
  - Features the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, & Policy (CSHIIP)

• Older Formerly Homeless Veterans Living in HUD-VASH Housing - 11-2019
  - Features the Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research (CHOIR)

• Improving Reproductive Planning Services for Women Veterans: The MyPath Intervention - 10-2019
  - Features the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care

• Engaging the Veterans' Point of View - 09-2019
  - Features the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR)

• Photovoice: Improving Post-Deployment Reintegration through Visual Storytelling - 08-2019
  - Features the South Central Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (South Central MIRECC); Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)

• Partnering with Veterans to Improve Specialty Care Outreach for PTSD - 06-2019
  - Features the Virtual Specialty Care (VSC) QUERI

• Women Veterans' Experience with Research on Intimate Partner Violence - 05-2019
  - Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion

• How Stranger Harassment of Women Veterans Affects Healthcare - 04-2019
  - Features the Women Veterans Healthcare CREATE

• Incorporating Veterans' Perspectives into Research - 03-2019
  - Features the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care

• Making an IMPaCT in our Communities - 02-2019
  - Features the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion

• Improving Care for Veterans with COPD - 01-2019
  - Features the Safety and Quality QUERI

• Improving Access to Evidence-Based Non-Pharmacologic Pain Care in VA - 09-2018
  - Features the IMPROVE QUERI Center of Innovation

• Tailoring VA's Diabetes Prevention Program to Women Veterans' Needs - 07-2018
  - Features the EMPOWER QUERI Program

• Evaluating National Program to Improve Access to Acute Stroke Services for Veterans - 06-2018
  - Features the VA's National TeleStroke Program

• Optimizing Function and Independence for VA Inpatients - 05-2018
  - Features the Optimizing Function and Independence QUERI and the expansion of the STRIDE program

• Peer Support Specialists' Unique Contribution to Veterans' Health - 04-2018
  - Features the QUERI for Team-based Behavioral Health

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