Title:
Project Grant - PA: Population and Public Health - Moving Upstream
Agreement Value:
$100,000.00
Agreement Date:
Oct 1, 2025 - Sep 30, 2026
Description:
The mission of the CIHR-Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) is to improve the health of populations and promote health equity in Canada and globally through research and its application to policies, programs, and practice in public health and other sectors.
The CIHR Institute for Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) will fund applications that are relevant to their mandate, relevant to CIHR’s definition of population health research (pillar 4 research), focused on meaningfully improving equitable health1 outcomes and aligned with one or more of the following IPPH strategic research areas:
• Global Public Health: applications with a primary focus on “global health research” (as per CIHR’s definition) that improves global health equity for all.
• Moving Upstream (structural determinants of health): applications with a primary focus on interdisciplinary research into the structural determinants of health to meaningfully address the root causes and systems that create health inequities in Canada and globally.
Organization:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Expected Results:
This program provides funding for targeted grants and awards aimed at addressing priority areas. Priorities are identified by CIHR in consultation with other government departments and agencies, partners and stakeholders. The program mobilizes researchers, patients, health providers, and decision makers to conduct research, enable knowledge translation and build capacity in the priority areas. It often requires collaboration within and across sectors.
Location:
Ottawa, Ontario, CA K1N 5C8
Reference Number:
236-2025-2026-Q3-00822
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Individual or sole proprietorship
Recipient's Legal Name:
Heer, Carrie
Research Organization:
Bruyère Health Research Institute (Ottawa, ON)|Institut de recherche Santé Bruyère (Ottawa, ON)
Program:
Research in Priority Areas
Program Purpose:
This program provides funding for targeted grants and awards aimed at addressing priority areas. Priorities are identified by CIHR in consultation with other government departments and agencies, partners and stakeholders. The program mobilizes researchers, patients, health providers, and decision makers to conduct research, enable knowledge translation and build capacity in the priority areas. It often requires collaboration within and across sectors.