Grants and Contributions

The Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies (CRPPHE) is housed at CIHR with a mandate to grow Canada's research leadership in preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery from pandemics and public health emergencies, including by building and supporting Canadian research capacity in the field.

CRPPHE will offer funding for bridge grants to research projects that are aligned with the CRPPHE goal and objectives and the Interim Investment Plan and that have a primary research objective related to preparing for and/or responding to existing and future pandemics and other health emergencies*.

*For the purpose of this Priority Announcement, a health emergency is defined as:

A present or imminent event or phenomenon, of a temporary, acute nature, with actual or potential significant negative impacts on human health, resulting in:

• A serious disruption of the functioning of a community; and/or
• The declaration of a state of emergency by a municipal, provincial/territorial, federal and/or Indigenous government, or international organization with a health research mandate; and that
• Requires prompt research action to protect and strengthen human health.

This Priority Announcement (PA) is led by Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research and aims to support Patient-Oriented Research (POR) projects.

This Priority Announcement (PA) is led by Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research and aims to support Patient-Oriented Research (POR) projects.

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

Patient-Oriented Research (POR), which is foundational to evidence-informed health care, refers to a continuum of research that engages patients/communities, including People with Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE), as partners throughout the research process, focusses on patient/community-identified priorities, and improves patient/community outcomes. This research, conducted by multidisciplinary teams in partnership with relevant partners, aims to apply the knowledge generated to improve health outcomes for Canadians.
Canada's (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.
The vision for SPOR is that Canada will demonstrably improve health outcomes and enhance the health care experience for patients/communities through the integration of evidence at all levels of the health care system.

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:

• 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:

• 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.