The Indigenous Mentorship Network Program is expected to:

• Increase mentorship opportunities for First Nations, Inuit and Métis trainees and New Investigators through networking;
• Increase mentorship opportunities and collaborations with regions across Canada’s North;
• Address recruitment, retention and representation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis trainees and New Investigators;
• Create mechanisms within Mentorship Networks that support trainees and New Investigators throughout the different stages of their training and career;
• Inclusion of cultural practices and attention to the psychosocial needs of trainees in IMNPs;
• Identify systemic and individual barriers hindering First Nations, Inuit and Métis trainees and New Investigators from becoming full-tenured faculty members or Nominated Principal Investigators driving the Indigenous health research agenda, for example, and develop strategies for overcoming barriers.

Additional objectives specific to the successful National/International Coordinating mentorship network team are to:

• Identify, develop, maintain international Mentorship Networks that support the relationship between Canadian Indigenous mentees and International Indigenous mentors;
• Lead, coordinate, and organize national events to help promote networking activities among the successful provincial mentorship teams.

This funding opportunity is jointly supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Its aim is to promote the development of Canadian-Chinese scientific co-operation between universities, hospitals, research institutes and affiliated research organizations in Canada and China by supporting collaborative research teams working on implementation research projects in the field of mental health.

The GACD Mental Health – Canada-China funding opportunity is expected to:

• Fund collaborative research teams that will generate new knowledge on interventions and their implementation for the prevention and management of mental disorders;
• Establish a Global Research Network of teams involved in implementation research on mental health in order to enhance collaboration and reciprocal learning across countries;
• Strengthen capacity for implementation research on interventions to prevent and/or manage mental disorders.

Through the Institute Community Support (ICS) Program, the CIHR Institutes and Initiatives are launching the ICS Travel Awards competition for students, postdoctoral fellows, new investigators and knowledge users to present their own research at national and international meetings and/or conferences.

The objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To support the creation, implementation and maintenance of a pan-Canadian (national) organization able to:
• contribute to the advancement, production and dissemination of knowledge syntheses;
• advance evidence-informed guideline development, dissemination and uptake.
• To increase the capacity in Canada related to guideline development and knowledge synthesis.

This call for proposals seeks to address the health of Francophones outside of Quebec from the perspective of population health and community health. Population health is particularly concerned with the complex physical, social, cultural, political, economic and legal interactions that affect the health of Francophones and their communities. If their health determinants, and the interrelations thereof, were taken into closer consideration, Francophones could be better able to improve their health. Therefore, proposals should demonstrate an approach that links health to personal and collective well-being. Such an approach would also recognize that the particularities of Francophone populations and their sociopolitical contexts create different health profiles and call for different public interventions.

The KRESCENT program New Investigator Award is awarded to individuals who have clearly demonstrated excellence during their pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training in kidney disease. The Award provides salary support for up to three years of the faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor or its equivalent at a Canadian University.

The purpose of this award is to assist such an individual to become established as a fully independent investigator in the field of kidney disease.

Preference may be given to candidates who have been awarded and successfully completed a KRESCENT program Post-Doctoral Fellowship or Allied Health Doctoral Scholarship.

Application for this award must be initiated by the university or the institution at which the candidate will conduct the proposed research. The university or institution is expected to guarantee the applicant appropriate academic rank and to provide adequate space and facilities for the investigator’s research, commensurate with the status of the individual in terms of experience and level of support by the Program.

A KRESCENT program Post-Doctoral Fellowship is an “in-training” award intended for applicants with a PhD, MD or equivalent degree. The objective is to attract and foster young investigators to initiate and/or continue training in kidney research.

An awardee may not be in receipt of another major personnel award at the same time as holding the Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the KRESCENT program. However, the KRESCENT program will consider approving supplemental funding if a minor stipend has been provided from a local or provincial funding agency.

The Personalized Health Catalyst Grants funding opportunity is expected to:

• Optimize patient empowerment in personalized health care approaches;
• Develop data integration and analysis tools that will optimize personalized health interventions;
• Assess the value of personalized health care for effective implementation and delivery;
• Increase researcher awareness about the importance of integrating sex- and gender-based analysis in assessing relative costs and benefits.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Support new investigators in the field of health ethics;
• Support established investigators new to the field of health ethics;
• Promote conceptual and/or empirical research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

The Major Industry-Partnered Research (MIRG) program is designed to support industry-partnered research projects that are aligned with the Network’s strategic priorities. Up to $200,000 per year for three years is available for projects that include partner cash and in-kind contributions of 4:1 of which at least 75% must be cash.

Round 2 Full Application deadline: April 17, 2017 (4:00 pm Eastern)