BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to build and strengthen teams engaged in knowledge translation (KT) at the community, regional, provincial or federal level by funding KT and implementation activities of researchers and decision makers/knowledge users. Applications will be reviewed by a merit review committee (comprised of both researchers and decision makers).

NSERC is partnering with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in this funding opportunity to support knowledge syntheses on the environment. The environment is a multi-faceted topic that calls for contributions from across the many disciplines of Canada’s research community. This program will provide up to $100,000 to support multi-disciplinary research initiatives designed to address important scientific and scholarly opportunities and problems related to the environment. Projects will draw on and synthesize existing research results and scholarship to respond to knowledge gaps identified by a variety of stakeholders involved in improving the environment. The three partner agencies will support syntheses on complex interactions between the environment and one or more other sectors – particularly health, energy and natural resources, and information and communications technology. Where possible, syntheses should address social, economic and cultural aspects, including governance and policy issues.

Applications to synthesize knowledge in any of CIHR’s four themes - biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; health of populations, societal and cultural dimensions of health and environmental influences on health - are invited so long as they respond to decision-maker needs and the priorities identified by the Knowledge Synthesis and Exchange branch and its partners in this funding opportunity.