Grants and Contributions

These awards support the recruitment of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in priority areas, helping build capacity, strengthen the research ecosystem and enhance Canada’s global competitiveness.

1. Promote research independence and academic research career readiness of highly qualified post-doctoral researchers, clinicians and PhD-holding research associates belonging to specific underrepresented groups;
2. Increase the number of funded researchers from specific underrepresented groups conducting excellent research who secure their first independent research faculty position in a Canadian academic, health system or research institution; and
3. Provide funded researchers from specific underrepresented groups with early career support to enhance their probability of future success in obtaining independent research funding and launching successful research faculty careers in Canada that will contribute to the creation and/or use of health-related knowledge to improve the health of Canadians.

These awards support the recruitment of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in priority areas, helping build capacity, strengthen the research ecosystem and enhance Canada’s global competitiveness.

The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (CIHR-IGH) will fund applications relevant to its mandate and research priorities as outlined in the Research Priority Plan, and that align with at least one of the following research areas:

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Generate actionable evidence on system-level building blocks of Canadian PHS in the public and/or community sectors, and their impacts on population health and health equity; and
• Identify, test, and/or evaluate promising system-level solutions that strengthen PHS in the public and/or community sectors for evidence-informed decision-making; and
• Build capacity of different actors (researchers, decision-makers, practitioners, community representatives, Indigenous communities, and other knowledge users), organizations and sectors (governmental and non-governmental) to undertake collaborative, equity-focused research on PHS; and
• Foster knowledge mobilization strategies that close the gap between research, policy, and practice in public health with relevant interest-holders and advance the uptake of evidence for stronger PHS.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Generate actionable evidence on system-level building blocks of Canadian PHS in the public and/or community sectors, and their impacts on population health and health equity; and
• Identify, test, and/or evaluate promising system-level solutions that strengthen PHS in the public and/or community sectors for evidence-informed decision-making; and
• Build capacity of different actors (researchers, decision-makers, practitioners, community representatives, Indigenous communities, and other knowledge users), organizations and sectors (governmental and non-governmental) to undertake collaborative, equity-focused research on PHS; and
• Foster knowledge mobilization strategies that close the gap between research, policy, and practice in public health with relevant interest-holders and advance the uptake of evidence for stronger PHS.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Generate actionable evidence on system-level building blocks of Canadian PHS in the public and/or community sectors, and their impacts on population health and health equity; and
• Identify, test, and/or evaluate promising system-level solutions that strengthen PHS in the public and/or community sectors for evidence-informed decision-making; and
• Build capacity of different actors (researchers, decision-makers, practitioners, community representatives, Indigenous communities, and other knowledge users), organizations and sectors (governmental and non-governmental) to undertake collaborative, equity-focused research on PHS; and
• Foster knowledge mobilization strategies that close the gap between research, policy, and practice in public health with relevant interest-holders and advance the uptake of evidence for stronger PHS.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Generate actionable evidence on system-level building blocks of Canadian PHS in the public and/or community sectors, and their impacts on population health and health equity; and
• Identify, test, and/or evaluate promising system-level solutions that strengthen PHS in the public and/or community sectors for evidence-informed decision-making; and
• Build capacity of different actors (researchers, decision-makers, practitioners, community representatives, Indigenous communities, and other knowledge users), organizations and sectors (governmental and non-governmental) to undertake collaborative, equity-focused research on PHS; and
• Foster knowledge mobilization strategies that close the gap between research, policy, and practice in public health with relevant interest-holders and advance the uptake of evidence for stronger PHS.

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. For more information about it's mandate and objectives visit the CRPPHE website.

CRPPHE will fund applications that address its mandate and that have a primary research objective related to preparing for and/or responding to existing and future pandemics and other health emergencies*. In addition, applications must address one or more of the research areas listed below. CRPPHE encourages interdisciplinary applications including applications taking One Health*, holistic or Indigenous approaches to research.

Research Areas

• Behavioural sciences;
• Health Systems Research
• Intervention research and implementation science;
• One Health*;
• Community-based research approaches;
• Infectious disease modelling;

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Foster the creation and/or strengthening of research partnerships that reinforce trust and mutual understanding between researchers, knowledge users (including people with lived and/or living experience, policy-makers, decision-makers, and health providers), knowledge holders, communities, and health and community organizations (including public health).
• Support the time and enablers required for meaningful co-produced activities that are driven by the needs of communities and/or organizations in order to produce a useful and/or useable output or outcome, and that will advance health equity and/or other goals of the Quintuple Aim Framework.
• Evaluate co-production processes used within the research partnerships, as part of a learning approach that contributes to continuous improvement and the field of knowledge mobilization.