Grants and Contributions

CIHR’s Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) will provide travel awards for applicants who have been accepted to attend the 2nd annual Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) Summer Institute hosted in Montréal, Québec from July 18 to 22, 2022. CIHR-IPPH sponsors the Summer Institute and is committed to building research capacity to use artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to address population and public health challenges as one of CIHR-IPPH’s strategic priorities through its Equitable AI Initiative.

To create value-added opportunities for the training, education, and professional development of graduate students, to ensure continued improvement of asthma treatment therapies and progress towards finding a cure for asthma.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to fund Collaborative Centres of HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research that:
• Coordinate HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research efforts between existing HIV/AIDS national organizational structures, researchers, and regional and/or provincial HIV/AIDS Community-Based Organizations;
• Build Community-Based research capacity across Canada, focusing on areas with underdeveloped HIV/AIDS CBR strengths;
• Provide infrastructure support to position HIV/AIDS community organizations and academic teams in order for them to develop strategic research programs that succeed in securing research funding through other opportunities; and
• Promote the creation and translation of new evidence that is relevant to communities so that it may positively impact the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To contribute to the improved health of PSP with PTSI by generating relevant and timely evidence around the merit, validity, and appropriateness of the two targeted support systems identified through this program.
• To assess the potential impacts of these two targeted support systems on PSP, including through novel and innovative research approaches directly using the core technologies/methodologies in place at the Research and Coordination hubs.
• To contribute to the development of sustainable support systems for PSP by catalyzing research on potentially effective support models, and through the development of evidence summaries, best practices, and guidance documents for the targeted support models identified through this program

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:
• To provide recognition and funding to academic researchers;
• To provide a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:
• Leverage Canadian-based research data sources and infrastructures to foster research concerning the health effects of cannabis use, including the effectiveness of medical cannabis in treating different conditions, and the harms and risks associated with non-medical use;
• Generate and share new knowledge concerning prevalence, patterns, and contributing factors of cannabis use to answer cannabis-related health research questions specific to one of the research areas stated above; and
• Develop a broader understanding concerning cannabis use, which may ultimately lead to guidance for therapeutic and recreational use, as well as for cannabis use disorder.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To contribute to the improved health of PSP with PTSI by generating relevant and timely evidence around the merit, validity, and appropriateness of the two targeted support systems identified through this program.
• To assess the potential impacts of these two targeted support systems on PSP, including through novel and innovative research approaches directly using the core technologies/methodologies in place at the Research and Coordination hubs.
• To contribute to the development of sustainable support systems for PSP by catalyzing research on potentially effective support models, and through the development of evidence summaries, best practices, and guidance documents for the targeted support models identified through this program.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:
• To provide recognition and funding to academic researchers;
• To provide a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers.

The Project will undertake research to assess the potential contribution of different technology solutions to reducing the full environmental impacts of marine shipping. One objective of this work is to produce a report on the current state of technologies supporting environmental impact reduction of shipping. A second objective is to develop an assessment framework tool to evaluate and prioritize technology development efforts that will minimize the total environmental impact of marine shipping, and thereby accelerate efforts in achieving the ultimate goal of ‘zero-impact shipping’. The definition of environmental impact in the Project not only includes the 2050 net-zero GHG emissions target but also includes additional environmental impacts like air, water pollution and impact on ocean life.

Early identification of cognitive decline allows for earlier intervention with appropriate care so that entry to long term care can be delayed. This project explores two non-invasive assessments (eye-tracking and speech patterns) that have potential for cognitive assessment. Specifically, the project will design a system to capture voice and eye-gaze data during tasks, with the goal of detecting speech and oculomotor abnormalities associated with cognitive decline. It will combine the two modalities and leverage multimodal analysis techniques to generate more sensitive predictions. The project will analyze combinations of tasks to achieve the assessment. The project will collect longitudinal data, to allow intra-subject analysis in addition to cross-sectional analysis to validate the performance of the system. The project will lead to a more cost-effective approach for assessment that could be done at home or remotely and that is an alternative to more expensive or invasive diagnostic testing currently being done.