Grants and Contributions

• 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 specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
1.Provide women’s health researchers and trainees with operating funds to perform clinical research;
2.Support capacity building in women’s health among the next generation of health researchers; and
3.Start positioning Canada as a leader in women’s health research.

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.

• 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 Musculoskeletal Health (arthritis, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, bone, skeletal muscle)

• Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) is a national coalition of federal, provincial and territorial partners (patients and informal caregivers, provincial health authorities, health centres, charities, philanthropic organizations, private sector, etc.) dedicated to the integration of research into care. Its vision is that by 2025, Canada will have demonstrably improved health outcomes and enhanced the health care experience for patients through the integration of evidence at all levels of the health care system.
• As outlined in the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework, patient-oriented research refers to a continuum of research that engages patients as partners, focusses on patient-identified priorities and improves patient outcomes. This research, conducted by multidisciplinary teams in partnership with relevant stakeholders, aims to apply the knowledge generated to improve healthcare systems and practices.
• As a partner in SPOR, CIHR will provide bridge funding for fundable applications that are below the competition funding cut-off and aligned with the SPOR vision and the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework. Categories are described in the Funds Available section.

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.

The Measuring the impacts of financial and organizational restructuring of public health opportunity is expected to:
•Generate evidence on how changes to the funding, organization and/or delivery of public health services impact population health, health systems and health equity;
•Improve data and methods for measuring the benefits, costs, harms and trade-offs of changes in public health funding, organization and /or delivery; and
•Develop evidence that can be used to inform future decisions or policies related to public health resourcing and organization.

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.

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.

• 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.