Team Grant: Avian Influenza Coordination and Knowledge Mobilization Hub

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

1. Establish a national avian influenza research hub that supports the coordination and knowledge mobilization of avian influenza research activities in Canada and internationally, where feasible.
2. Foster collective impact and scientific excellence in avian influenza research by facilitating meaningful and culturally safe engagements between avian influenza researchers and relevant decision-makers and knowledge users from diverse sectors, jurisdictions, and perspectives, such as federal, provincial, territorial, and Indigenous governments, health care providers, non-governmental organizations, industry organizations, and community groups including First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, where relevant.
3. Facilitate and accelerate the mobilization of knowledge generated from avian influenza research into accessible, usable, timely and relevant solutions and interventions for decision-makers and knowledge users across multiple sectors and jurisdictions, including populations with higher risks of avian influenza exposure and impact (such as veterinarians, livestock producers, trappers, hunters, workers in the agricultural or wildlife sectors, First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis populations, and populations in rural and remote settings).