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 Canadian Cancer Society Prevention Initiative – Research Scientist Awards in Prevention Research are career development awards and are intended for candidates who have shown a commitment to cancer prevention interventions research. Interventions to prevent cancer are defined as research to modify determinants of, and/or changes to, behaviours or exposures that affect cancer risk.

The purpose of the Social Media Interventions for Tobacco Prevention and Cessation grants competition is to develop innovative tobacco cessation programs and programs that prevent people from taking up smoking by supporting studies of tobacco interventions and processes that utilize social media.
Applications are invited from researchers working across numerous disciplines to undertake work that will modify tobacco use behaviours, thus affecting cancer risk related to a broad array of cancers. Successful applicants are expected to work in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society in order to accelerate the translation of the research results into the Society’s tobacco cessation and prevention programs. Social media is defined as conversations and interaction between people online through highly accessible and scalable web-based technologies.

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.

Research projects supported by Promise Grants must provide an integrated approach to solving a critical challenge that will lead to the rapid translation of scientific discoveries into new or enhanced clinical tools and applications with the greatest potential to significantly reduce breast cancer incidence and/or mortality within the next decade. Projects must be designed to yield converging evidence that answers an important over-arching problem in breast cancer (e.g., resistance to currently available targeted therapies or novel therapies for triple negative breast cancer). Relevant research applications may include components that focus on breast cancer biology; genetics; epidemiology; prevention; detection; risk assessment; biomarkers of risk, disease burden, and/or treatment response or resistance; novel therapeutics; lifestyle interventions with the potential to affect disease outcomes (e.g., incidence and/or mortality); and novel approaches that enhance understanding of the breast cancer disease process.

Innovation grants are intended to provide funding for small-scale research projects that will promote increased interaction amongst workplace parties, organizations, and/or researchers. Using the collective resources of those who are most affected by its policies and programs will assist WorkSafeBC and employers in ensuring that critical areas of need are addressed and practical solutions are found and implemented. The maximum grant for these projects is normally $50,000, for a maximum duration of one year.
Notice of Intent: July 5

Health and Medical Education/Research grants support initiatives that ensure British Columbians are involved in advancing the health of their own communities. Community-focused research grants allow researchers and not-for-profit organizations to collaboratively undertake relevant research at the community level. Bursaries provided within the post-secondary health and medical fields enable community members (students) to further develop their knowledge and skills with the goal of providing health and medical services to communities throughout BC.

The broad purpose of the Standard Research Grants program is to support research and develop excellence in research activities in the social sciences and humanities.
The specific objectives of the program are to:
• support high-quality independent programs of research, as proposed by scholars and judged by their peers;
• provide opportunities for the training of future researchers;
• contribute to the development or elaboration of new theoretical or methodological approaches to research;
• maintain and develop vigorous disciplinary research activities;
• foster and develop vigorous collaborative, multidisciplinary research activities among researchers in the social sciences and humanities; and
• assist the communication of research results both within and beyond the academic community.

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.