BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health are partnering on this Request for Applications with the objective of supporting a Chair in the area of hypertension research who will focus on:
• improving awareness, prevention and control of hypertension;
• identifying gaps in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange / Knowledge Translation from evidence to practice for hypertension prevention and control; and
• developing and evaluating new policies, programs and interventions aimed at reducing the burden and/or impact of hypertension.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is offering a Distinguished Clinician Scientist award as an integral part of the New Investigator competition. Candidates applying for the Distinguished Clinician Scientist award will also be considered in the regular pool of New Investigator applicants. This award, which is partnered this year with the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health will be offered to the highest ranked eligible clinician in the New Investigator competition. The Distinguished Clinician Scientist award carries a higher stipend than the New Investigator award, plus an additional research allowance.

The New Investigator award is a salary award to support new investigators who have demonstrated excellence in their pre and post doctoral training and wish to establish their own research laboratory.

Approximately $28 million is provided annually through provincial Heart and Stroke Foundations to support research operating costs through Grants-in-Aid. These costs may include laboratory supplies, technicians, and some equipment.
Research is supported across the four health research themes:
• basic biomedical
• clinical
• health services and health systems
• health of populations

The aim of this initiative is to build greater capacity for stroke research in Canada and to encourage more research by health professionals such as those in nursing, social work, pharmacology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutrition, pathology, and medicine.