Team Grant: Strengthening Resilient and Equitable Public Health Systems (STEPS)
The Strengthening Resilient and Equitable Public Health Systems (STEPS) Team Grants invite research on system-level challenges in public health, and the role the community and public sectors play in addressing them and advancing shared PHS goals. The grants build on past investments in the IPPH Public Health Systems strategic priority area, which seeks to “strengthen the field of public health systems and services research (PHSSR)” and “support decision-making across the public health ecosystem.” The STEPS grants also respond to widespread calls for a national PHSSR agenda, one that is interdisciplinary, intersectoral and informed by multiple knowledge systems, including Indigenous epistemologies.
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.