BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Under the framework of the ICS Program, IPPH will consider requests that:
• fall within the general objectives of this funding program;
• address one or more of the IPPH strategic priorities (listed below);
• increase the capacity of the Canadian health research community to lead and collaborate on cutting-edge population and public health research and knowledge translation, both nationally and internationally;
• build on/align with existing IPPH initiatives (e.g. Applied Public Health Chairs, Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research); and,
• support and accelerate the translation of research on population health interventions and implementation systems into practice, programs, and policies within the health and other sectors.

The mandate of the Small Health Organizations Partnership Program (SHOPP) is to foster partnership opportunities with small health charities and not-for-profit organizations with modest health research funding capacity by co-funding training and salary awards. The benefit of this program is that CIHR offers partnership opportunities for small health organizations to increase their health research capacity while becoming more in line with the strategic directions of the Institutes. This program also meets CIHR’s strategic objective of outstanding research through effective partnerships in specific areas of research.

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.

The objective of this initiative is to develop future leaders in trials research who can direct the conception, design and implementation of randomized controlled trials. The goals will be realized by a mentoring program in which investigators will learn how to initiate and conduct high quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from experienced mentors in highly active trial centres. The immediate aim of this mentoring program is to enable the mentee to independently develop and submit to CIHR a randomized controlled trials full application at the end of the mentoring program.

In its Strategic Plan (Blueprint 2007), CIHR committed to a re-invigorated and modernized approach to clinical research. The Clinical Research Initiative is CIHR’s response to both the pressing need and the immense opportunity to strengthen clinical research in Canada: without a more robust clinical research enterprise, CIHR’s investments and those of others in fundamental life sciences research will not be translated into improved health for Canadians.
The purpose of this program is to further strengthen clinical research by providing research training to health professionals and strengthen talent development. It is expected that this targeted investment will lead to the development of the next generation of clinician-researchers.