BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Priority Announcements on Operating Grant: Knowledge to Action competitions offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the "201010KAL" competition of the Operating Grant: Knowledge to Action (2010-2011) funding opportunity.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to increase the uptake/application of knowledge by supporting partnerships between researchers and knowledge-users to bridge a knowledge to action gap, and in so doing, increase the understanding of knowledge application through the process.

Priority Announcements on CIHR Knowledge Synthesis competitions offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the "201010KRS" competition of the Knowledge Synthesis Grant: Fall 2010 Competition funding opportunity.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:
• to increase the uptake/application of synthesized knowledge in decision-making by supporting partnerships between researchers and knowledge users to produce scoping reviews and syntheses that respond to the information needs of knowledge users in all areas of health;
• to extend the benefits of knowledge synthesis to new kinds of questions relevant to knowledge users and areas of research that have not traditionally been synthesized.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
• Produce scoping reviews and syntheses that respond to the information needs of knowldege users in the areas of prevention and treatment of illicit drug use.
• Support the use of synthesis evidence in decision-making by building integrated and end-of-grant knowledge translation practices into the production of scoping reviews and syntheses.
• Extend the benefits of knowledge synthesis to new kinds of questions relevant to knowledge users and areas of research that have not traditionally been synthesized.

The goal of this funding opportunity is to support researchers and healthcare professionals with the development and implementation of disease management and/or prevention programs. The ultimate objective of this initiative is to contribute to reducing the burden of chronic disease in Canada. Therefore, we would like to encourage innovative approaches that focus on improving patient care, interlinking of available healthcare providers and resources, and other innovative solutions that aim to improve chronic disease management.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:
• to provide attractive, long-term personnel awards;
• to promote recruitment and retention of highly-qualified personnel; and
• to establish Chairs in disciplines where specific universities are particularly strong, and where GSK and CIHR have clear scientific interest.
In addition, the intent of this initiative is to facilitate the translational objectives of CIHR, with particular interests in clinical research. Clinical research combines discoveries from the basic science laboratory incorporating the observations and insights of health professionals (a key aspect of translational research). It is the creation of new health knowledge and the translation of that knowledge from the research setting into applications where it ultimately impacts on the health of Canadians.

The Industry-Partnered Collaborative Research Operating Grant incorporates the Rx&D Collaborative Research Operating Grant and the program formerly titled the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Operating Grant. The Industry-Partnered Collaborative Research Operating Grant is designed to help the academic community and Canadian companies with an interest in health R&D to work together. The research planned should be beneficial to both parties, while improving the quality of health of Canadians. Projects may be initiated by either party; however, the academic researcher is responsible for applying for the grant.

The specific objective of the Operating Grant Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas) is to offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas and mandates.

Priority Announcements offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Planning Grants (Spring 2010 Competition) funding opportunity.

Priority Announcements offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement (Spring 2010 Competition) funding opportunity.

Priority Announcements offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Dissemination Events (Spring 2010 Competition) funding opportunity.

CIHR funds a great deal of research in both reproductive and child health, but far less attention has been given to maternal health, even though mothers assume a large responsibility for bearing and raising children, and even though there is a direct connection between the health of the mother and the health of her offspring.
To address this gap, IHDCYH, IGH, and IAPH organized a consensus workshop with key stakeholders (including researchers, clinicians, health care providers, and policy makers) to establish priorities in maternal health research and the appropriate funding tools to pursue those priorities. Based on in-depth discussions during the workshop, four priority research areas relevant to maternal health were identified:
• Determinants and consequences of maternal health disparities across the life course
• The relationship of pregnancy and its complications to subsequent maternal physical and/or mental health
• Health systems, health care models, and health human resources
• Pathways to positive maternal health: interventions, actions and policies

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support the prompt initiation of intervention research on rapidly unfolding programs, policies and resource distribution approaches that have the potential to impact health and health equity at the population level. This funding opportunity strongly encourages close collaboration between program implementers (e.g. decision-makers and researchers). Only research projects that are out of the control of the researcher will be considered, meaning that the researcher is not responsible for designing or implementing the intervention.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships—Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS) program supports high-caliber Canadian graduate students in building global linkages and international networks through the pursuit of exceptional research experiences abroad. By accessing international scientific research and training, CGS-MSFSS recipients will contribute to strengthening the potential for collaboration between Canadian universities and affiliated research institutions and universities, or other research institutions outside of Canada.
This foreign study supplements program is available to Canadian citizens or permanent residents who hold a Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Alexander Graham Bell or Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) at the master’s or doctoral level, or a Vanier CGS at the doctoral level.

CIHR funds a great deal of research in both reproductive and child health, but far less attention has been given to maternal health, even though mothers assume a large responsibility for bearing and raising children, and even though there is a direct connection between the health of the mother and the health of her offspring.

In 2006, through its Youth and Public Outreach unit of the CIHR Communications and Public Outreach Branch, CIHR launched the Synapse – Youth Connection program as a way to create a scientific junction between health researchers/scientists and Canada’s young people.
Synapse encourages CIHR-funded researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to become mentors by passing on their passion for health research to young Canadians who become their trainees.

CIHR’s Café Scientifique program, created through the Youth and Public Outreach Unit of CIHR’s Communications and Public Outreach Branch, is made up of informal events, not lectures between the general public and health research experts regarding a particular health-related issue of popular interest. CIHR’s Café Scientifiques cover a wide range of topics, from nutrition to mental health at the workplace to air pollution.
For that reason, these events are all about accessibility. CIHR Café Scientifiques take place at a café, a pub or a restaurant and do not require that the participants have a science degree. The informal conversations about a particular health subject may provide answers to any questions that are on the minds of Canada’s general population.

CIHR-IHDCYH’s mandate is to promote and support research that improves the health and development of mothers, infants, children, youth and families in Canada and throughout the world. Through our support, researchers address a wide range of health concerns, including those associated with reproduction, early development, childhood and adolescence.
CIHR-IHDCYH defines a workshop or a small meeting of investigators as a meeting of a limited number of persons (usually less than 30 people) individually invited to attend. The majority of participants should hold academic/research appointments in Canada.

The purpose of the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant program is to provide financial support for the broad category of Meetings, Planning and/or Dissemination activities that are consistent with the mandate of CIHR and relevant to CIHR Institutes, Initiatives, or Branches.
The specific objective of this funding opportunity, announced through the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant program is:
• To provide support for planning activities, partnership development and/or increasing the team’s understanding of the health research landscape that will contribute to the advancement of research consistent with the mandate of CIHR and relevant CIHR Institutes, Initiatives or Branches.