Grants and Contributions

The Robyn Tamblyn Mid-Career HSPR Innovator Award is intended to honor the outstanding work and trailblazing innovations of Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, the former Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR).

To recognize the excellence of research and innovation in health services and policy research being conducted in Canada, a prize of $25,000 will be given to the highest ranked mid-career investigator in the Project Grant competition whose project is relevant to CIHR-IHSPR's mandate and one or more of the Institute’s priority research area(s) listed in the section below.

The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (CIHR-IGH) will fund applications that are relevant to its mandate and research priorities, as described in our new Research Priority Plan, and that are aligned with at least one of the following research areas.

Research Areas:
1. Advancing intersectionality in sex and gender science
2. Understanding sex and gender mechanisms and processes
3. Sex and gender science for health equity in priority communities

For the Fall 2024 CIHR Fellowship Priority Announcements, the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (CIHR-IGH) will fund up to two fellowship applications relevant to its mandate and research priorities as outlined in our Research Priority Plan (add link once available), and that align with at least one of the following research areas:

Research Areas:

1. Advancing intersectionality in sex and gender science
2. Understanding sex and gender mechanisms and processes
3. Sex and gender science for health equity in priority communities

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

Sport science has traditionally centered on male athletes, either ignoring, or extrapolating findings to female athletes. Focusing on sex as a biological variable and gender as a social variable, this priority announcement (PA) aims to address research gaps in understanding the health of female athletes in the context of organized sport participation.
This PA is the result of a partnership between the CIHR Institutes of Gender and Health (CIHR-IGH), and Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA). For the purpose of this PA, sport is defined as "Activities that develop specific skills, and that are organized around competition and governed by rules" and will contribute to the National Women's Health Research Initiative (NWHRI) which is advancing a coordinated research program that addresses under-researched and high-priority areas of women's health and will ensure new evidence improves women's and gender-diverse people's care and health outcomes. The NWHRI promotes an intersectional lens to research and care to tackle persistent gaps for all women, including for Indigenous, Black, and women impacted by racism, women with disabilities, and members of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender diverse (2SLGBTQI+) communities.
This PA is designed to support research that considers physical, biological, reproductive, psychological, emotional, cultural, and/or spiritual health as it relates to female athletes participating in sports across the life-course together with gender and other intersecting variables. Examples of research topics that would be considered for this initiative include:
• Sex-related factors that differently or disproportionately influence health outcomes of female athletes participating in sports.
• Impact of sports participation on puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum health, menopause, aging, and/or other sex-specific health outcomes among female athletes.
• Identification of unique health experiences of female athletes participating in sport with intersecting variables including ethnicity, (dis)ability, age, sexual orientation, and gender (including gender identity inclusive of trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and other gender diverse identities; gender relations; gender roles; and/or institutionalized gender dimensions).
• Identification of strategies to manage, support, and promote mental health and psychological safety of female athletes in the context of sport participation.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:

• Catalyze and support research efforts of Canadian researchers to use the available CLSA data to better understand how biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and/or economic aspects of people’s lives have an impact on both maintaining health and the development of disease and disability as people age.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is:

• To provide entry to the SPA 2026 program to trainees interested in the area of: Impact of climate change on the health of older persons.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is:

• To provide entry to the SPA 2026 program to trainees interested in the area of: Impact of climate change on the health of older persons.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is:

• To provide entry to the SPA 2026 program to trainees interested in the area of: Impact of climate change on the health of older persons.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is:

• To provide entry to the SPA 2026 program to trainees interested in the area of: Impact of climate change on the health of older persons.