Grants and Contributions

• The CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) will fund applications that are determined to be relevant to the mandate and research priority areas of CIHR-IMHA as described below:
o Oral Health

The Understanding Disease Prevention and Risk Factor Modification Catalyst Grants are expected to:

• increase our understanding of factors that enable individuals to adopt or overlook known disease risk modification strategies;
• expand the evidence and further understanding that can lead to future intervention studies in prevention; and
• develop a knowledge base upon which to nuance evidence-based policy to improve the prevention of manageable diseases.

• The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) will fund an application that is determined to be relevant to the mandate and research priority areas of CIHR-INMHA
o The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction supports (INMHA) research to enhance mental health, neurological health, vision, hearing, and cognitive functioning and to reduce the burden of related disorders through prevention strategies, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation.

The objective of this funding opportunity is to catalyze and support research efforts of Canadian researchers to use the available CLSA data in order to better understand how (individually and in combination) the biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and/or economic aspects of people’s lives have an impact in both maintaining health and in the development of disease and disability as people age.

The objective of this funding opportunity is to catalyze and support research efforts of Canadian researchers to use the available CLSA data in order to better understand how (individually and in combination) the biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and/or economic aspects of people’s lives have an impact in both maintaining health and in the development of disease and disability as people age.

• The Canadian Epigenetics, Environment and Health Research Consortium (CEEHRC) will fund an application that is determined to be relevant to the key research needs and objectives of CEEHRC
o CEEHRC supports leading edge research on the role of DNA and environment interactions in human health and disease and translating epigenetic discoveries into better clinical care and outcomes for patients.

• The CIHR Institute of Genetics (CIHR-IG) will provide bridge funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the following research priorities:

o Computational and Systems Biology in the Fields of Genomics and Multiomics
o Health Services, Policy & Ethical, Economic, Legal and Social Issues Research

• These one (1) year operating grants afford Principal Investigators an opportunity to resubmit their research proposal without the loss of momentum, staff, or trainees.

This funding opportunity is expected to:
•Catalyze patient-oriented research aligned with the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework and SPOR Capacity Development Framework by:
¿Developing partnerships amongst patients and patient communities, researchers, health care professionals and health system decision-makers or policy-makers;
¿Mobilizing the above partnerships to develop and conduct a patient-oriented research project or projects; and,
¿Informing future applications for more comprehensive patient-oriented research grants.

This funding opportunity is expected to:
•Increase Canadian capacity to measure the impact of patient-oriented research in order to demonstrate the extent of health, social and economic benefits realized through patient-oriented research;
•Increase the literature currently available on the impact of patient-oriented research in Canada in order to:
¿Enable summative evaluation and meta-analyses on the impact of patient-oriented research; and,
¿Demonstrate how patient-oriented research compares to other health research approaches in terms of the potential to translate evidence into the health care system.

This funding opportunity is expected to:

• Advance knowledge through the analysis of existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets specific to one of the research areas above.