Grants and Contributions

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 CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (CIHR-III) will offer funding for an application determined to be specifically relevant to CIHR-III broad mandate as described below:
o The Institute of Infection and Immunity (III) supports research and helps to build research capacity in the areas of infectious disease and the body's immune system. Through the Institute's programs, researchers address a wide range of health concerns related to infection and immunity including disease mechanisms, disease prevention and treatment, and health promotion through public policy.

The objective is to invest in targeted COVID priority research areas from the Fall 2020 Project Grant competition such as vaccine hesitancy, pregnant women and children, racialized populations, Indigenous, confidence in science and SARS-CoV-2 variants.

CIHR and other funding agencies have invested heavily in the establishment of cohorts, databases, and data platforms. As a result, many high-quality data sets exist that contain a wealth of information and have the potential to answer research questions that go beyond those for which the data were originally collected or for which the data has been used to date. Examples of such resources include but are not limited to the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) Dynamic Cohort of Complex, High System Users, the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP), the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN), and the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). There is also the potential to link diverse datasets, thus enabling explorations of novel associations and interactions between human, environmental, social and clinical factors.
The Healthy Cities Research Initiative (HCRI), is partnering with Statistics Canada and the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to support the use of existing survey, administrative and linked datasets held by either agency to further research and develop indicators related to HCRI. Please note that applications are not required to use Statistics Canada or CMHC data. More information regarding Statistics Canada data is available at the Research Data Centre. Statistics Canada, CMHC and CANUE held a recent webinar (2019) on the datasets available that are relevant to healthy cities research (follow the “Archived Webinars” link to get more information on this session).

• The CIHR Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH) will provide funding for applications that are relevant to it’s mandate .

The objective is to invest in targeted COVID priority research areas from the Fall 2020 Project Grant competition such as vaccine hesitancy, pregnant women and children, racialized populations, Indigenous, confidence in science and SARS-CoV-2 variants.

The objective is to invest in targeted COVID priority research areas from the Fall 2020 Project Grant competition such as vaccine hesitancy, pregnant women and children, racialized populations, Indigenous, confidence in science and SARS-CoV-2 variants.

The objective is to invest in targeted COVID priority research areas from the Fall 2020 Project Grant competition such as vaccine hesitancy, pregnant women and children, racialized populations, Indigenous, confidence in science and SARS-CoV-2 variants.

The objectives of Stream 1 are:
•Accelerate rapid research on SARS-CoV-2 variants in Canada to contribute to the national and global efforts to address SARS-CoV-2 variants; and
•Generate timely evidence on SARS-CoV-2 variants that will show impact within 3-6 months and is relevant to biological, clinical, health system, and public health strategies.

Stream 1 applicants are strongly encouraged to consider maximizing impact by outlining how they intend to participate in:
1.The formation of a network (Stream 2) or participating in a network formed by another NPA (Stream 2); and,
2.The CIHR Network for Emerging Variants Research once established.

• Funding will be provided for applications that specifically align with IHSPR’s mandate and one or more of the following priority areas:

o Virtual care1 approaches and their implications on access, continuity, experience, equity, cost and/or outcomes of care.
o Cross-jurisdictional healthcare policy/systems/services analysis that utilizes the Canadian Data Platform, with linkages to additional novel data sources (e.g., EMRs, hospital administrative data, patient-reported experience measures (PREMS) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS)).
o Models of care that optimize inter-professional collaboration and/or integration of services across sectors for the improvement of patient outcomes and timely access to high quality, appropriate care for all.
o Cross-jurisdictional comparative policy analysis of the COVID-19 response and outcomes (e.g., policies, processes and interventions implemented in response to the pandemic).
o System adaptation and organization of care and the healthcare workforce as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic. Areas of focus include the primary, home and community care sectors (including long-term care).