Grants and Contributions

Establish a National Centre for Pandemic Research

Establish a National Centre for Pandemic Research

Establish a National Centre for Pandemic Research

The Building Rights for Improved Girls’ Health in Tanzania (BRIGHT) project focuses particularly on empowering girls who are young, in-and-out of school or pregnant. Project activities include: (1) utilizing nutrition-specific interventions, including iron and folic acid supplementation, as an entry point to provide young or pregnant girls with equitable, gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), nutrition and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) protection services; (2) using youth-centered, feminist and rights-based interventions to empower girls of different age groups to respond to the distinct barriers faced by young adolescent girls (10-14 years of age), out-of-school older adolescents (17-19 years of age), nomadic and pastoral communities and hard to reach vulnerable populations such as pregnant adolescents; (3) building agency and empowering adolescents (10-19 years of age) to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and nutrition rights; (4) promoting a pandemic-responsive and resilient health system by improving health systems and infrastructure; (5) supporting and delivering an integrated package of SRHR and nutrition services, including family planning/contraception; gender-based violence prevention and response services, adolescent-friendly antenatal, postnatal and post-abortion care, and nutrition support and counseling; (6) promoting gender equality and income generation and entrepreneurial skills for girls and life skills training to support out-of-school older adolescent girls; (7) strengthening gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly governance and accountability systems and structures; and (8) increasing adolescent participation in community-based accountability platforms and redistributing the burden of unpaid care by addressing deeply entrenched social norms.

To be eligible to the competition, applications must address ALL objectives AND key design components:

• Establish central coordination and collaboration activities with Collaborating Sites located across Canada to increase the availability of high-quality and real-time evidence to support research on the effectiveness and relative safety of the COVID-19 vaccines in children and youth;
• Generate research evidence related to COVID infection and vaccination in diverse children and youth population(s), including (but not limited to):
o Equity considerations;
o Health and well-being status (e.g., historically excluded or underserved populations, individuals with complex health needs and/or a disability);
o Sex and gender; and/or
o Racialized and Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous) populations.
• Identify children and youth populations at the highest and high risk for negative outcomes related to COVID-19 vaccination, and other determinant of health factors (e.g., social, economic, behaviour, etc.) that are associated with this increased greater risk.
• Harmonize data collection, and improve open and real-world data sharing with relevant knowledge-users in an accessible, useful and relevant format to support a timely and effective COVID-19 public health response within and across all jurisdictions in Canada as it relates to children and youth;
• Collaborate across Sites to establish resource and data sharing policies, increase efficiencies in research and related processes (including but not limited to ethics review; privacy considerations; contracts; informed-consent; common protocols; developing applications for trial funding; consistent and valid patient-oriented outcomes), reduce duplication, and maximize research and surveillance activities related to COVID-19 vaccination of children and youth; and
• Provide research evidence to inform clinical and health system management and public health response, and/or decision-making and planning within and all across jurisdictions in Canada and internationally.

Emergency Response to Most Vulnerable Community Groups (Pregnant and Lactating Mothers) in Samu- Robi Woreda, Zone 5, Afar Regional State

Grow BC biotech by improving the delivery technology behind the mRNA vaccines

Emergency Response to provide Nutritious food and WaSH supplies to Internally Displaced Breast Feeding Mothers, Pregnant Women and Children Under 5 in Debark Town.

Strengthening COVID-19 prevention mechanisms in indigenous communities guaranteeing Access to information on vaccines.

Consultation and seeking informed consent about vaccines against COVID-19 from first nations residing in their communities through the mobile brigades of the Family and Regional Health Units of the Ministry of Health and Social Wellbeing (Unidades de Salud Familiar y Regionales del Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social).