Grants and Contributions

The Project Grant program is expected to:
• Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation proposals at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
• Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors; and
• Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.

• This Priority Announcement will fund pediatric cancer research that can lead to better outcomes and healthier lives for pediatric cancer patients and their families. The aim is to support promising research projects with the greatest potential for advancing knowledge and improving outcomes.
• Projects must directly focus on pediatric cancer/pediatric populations (children, adolescents and young adults living with cancer and their families).

• The Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies (the Research Centre) will offer funding to support early career investigators in the field of pandemic preparedness and health emergencies.

• The Research Centre will award multi-year grants to applications that are determined to be relevant to advancing the Research Centre’s mission: to protect the health of all Canadians by developing and mobilizing research for pandemic and health emergency preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery that contributes meaningfully to timely, equitable and effective responses and recovery.

• These prizes are offered to recognize and support the resilience and research excellence of Canadian early career investigators working in the pandemic preparedness and/or health emergencies field.
• These prizes will be awarded to the 10 early career investigators with the highest ranking funded projects relevant to the mission of the Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies in the Spring 2022 Project Grant competition.
• This prize is a supplemental grant to support research, and must be used according to the CIHR Application Administration Guide. The prize is not a personal award and is non-renewable.

• These prizes are offered to recognize and support the resilience and research excellence of Canadian early career investigators working in the pandemic preparedness and/or health emergencies field.
• These prizes will be awarded to the 10 early career investigators with the highest ranking funded projects relevant to the mission of the Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies in the Spring 2022 Project Grant competition.
• This prize is a supplemental grant to support research, and must be used according to the CIHR Application Administration Guide. The prize is not a personal award and is non-renewable.

To be eligible to the competition, applications must be co-led by Canadian and African researchers and address all objectives:

• Provide rapid evidence to inform clinical and health system management and public health response, and/or decision-making and planning within and across jurisdictions in Canada and internationally;
• Undertake robust, multi-country cross learning, and comparative research (including in collaboration with other international researchers where appropriate) on:
o the safety and real-world effectiveness of medical or other countermeasures deployed* (including vaccines and therapeutics) to treat and/or prevent monkeypox infections in people in Canada and globally; and
o the underlying serological histories and transmission dynamics of the current monkeypox outbreaks in Canada and globally (including time of exposure and transmission during asymptomatic phase, mechanisms of human-to-human transmission, and key risk factors for infection and transmission);
• Align with and contribute to the WHO Global Clinical Platform for monkeypox and other international monkeypox surveillance and research coordination activities by:
o adopting WHO case investigation and reporting forms;
o developing robust study protocols that can be integrated and harmonized with international clinical datasets; and
o contributing to global real-time sharing and analyses of research findings across different study contexts
*Please note that medical countermeasures against monkeypox (including vaccines, drugs and other therapeutic agents) will not be provided by the Government of Canada for research supported through this funding opportunity.

The Project Grant program is expected to:
• Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation proposals at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
• Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors; and
• Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.

The Project Grant program is expected to:
• Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation proposals at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
• Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors; and
• Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.

The Project Grant program is expected to:
• Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation proposals at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
• Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors; and
• Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.

The Health System Impact Fellowship is expected to:
• Support impact-oriented career paths and elevate the career readiness of PhD trainees and post-doctoral fellows studying HSPR or related fields by supporting experiential learning opportunities in health system and related organizations outside of the traditional university environment and enriched competency development (e.g., leadership, project management);
• Expand and enrich the traditional doctoral and post-doctoral training environment by engaging health system and related organizations in preparing a cadre of promising doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows for successful careers in academic and applied health system settings; and
• Provide health system and related organizations with direct opportunities to realize and harness the benefits that research-trained individuals can bring to such organizations for improved decision-making.