Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Resilient responses to protect lung health in Nunavik
Agreement Number:
994988
Agreement Value:
$307,375.00
Agreement Date:
May 6, 2022 - Apr 30, 2025
Description:
The potential impact of anthropogenic climate change on lung health is a “threat no less consequential than cigarette smoking”. The lung healthrelated impact of climate change is already being felt in the Inuit Nunangat region of Nunavik, Quebec. The need to mitigate impacts of climate change on lung health is particularly urgent in Nunavik due to the region’s existing vulnerabilities with respect to respiratory diseases – vulnerabilities rooted in social determinants of health and historical injustices, and whose impact is amplified by health service infrastructure gaps that represent a major disparity between Nunavik and the rest of Quebec. This project addresses Theme 2 of the CINUK Call for Research Proposals, “Mitigations & Adaptations for Resilience.” The two cross-cutting issues addressed are Inuit community health & well-being, and Resilience and sustainability. Our diverse coalition of researchers and community partners will interweave three streams of research activities, taking place in parallel: (1) communitybased participatory research and implementation science methods are applied to design a Community Lung Health Programme with community members addressing lung health through a holistic biosocial paradigm; (2) engineering, microbiology, and epidemiologic methods are leveraged to develop a protocol that the Community Lung Health Programme can use to accurately measure built-environment-related determinants of lung health, and identify at-risk housing stock; (3) scoping and systematic review methods, and a pilot study, are applied to evaluate emerging technologies for point-of-care diagnosis or monitoring of respiratory diseases to reduce medical travel out of region.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.
Location:
Montreal, Quebec, CA H3H 2R9
Reference Number:
172-2022-2023-Q2-994988
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
000000000
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
The Research Institute of the Mcgill University Health Centre
Federal Riding Name:
La Pointe-de-l'Île
Federal Riding Number:
24077
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Program Purpose:
Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.
NAICS Code:
541710