OHTN Game Changer Awards: Breaking New Ground

The Game Changer Awards are investigator-driven awards that will build on the innovation and engagement of Ontario’s HIV community to generate knowledge, and pilot and scale up game-changing interventions. In this award category, we are asking applicants to imagine how systems and services in Ontario could work better and propose high-reward opportunities for data, evidence-sharing, and impact. Although this award is investigator-driven, all data, evidence-sharing, and impact ideas should be rooted in the needs of individuals living with and at risk of HIV and grounded by relationships with the front line providers who will deliver the envisioned services and interventions.

The Breaking New Ground Award funds innovative, high-reward projects that will break new ground and build evidence and programs to dramatically improve the prevention, treatment, and care cascade in Ontario. This funding stream supports the piloting, evaluation, or scale up of HIV interventions. The project should address a clear care or quality gap in the current HIV care cascade, or health and social system and work to achieve impact at the front lines of HIV prevention and care.