Catalyst Grant : HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research

The funding opportunity Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research is expected to:

• Support partnerships between communities affected by HIV and other STBBI in Canada and researchers to facilitate the conduct of CBR; and/or
• Develop future applications for more comprehensive CBR grants in the area of HIV and other STBBI in Canada.

Examples of activities that might be conducted under this request for applications are (but are not restricted to):

• Facilitation of dialogue between communities and researchers in order to establish research partnerships;
• Workshops to design a research project and/or develop a proposal for a future CBR operating grant;
• Planning and execution of pilot projects or feasibility studies to generate preliminary data, proof of concept; and/or
• Development and/or validation of new interventions, tools, methodologies, protocols, theoretical models or frameworks.

For examples, applicants can visit CIHR's Funding Decisions web site to search for projects previously funded under a CIHR HIV/AIDS CBR Catalyst Grant.