New Investigator Research Grants provide important early career development support to child health researchers. It is intended this program will enhance the grant recipient’s ability to compete with more senior investigators for research grants from other funders. Through this grants program we are seeking to fund research carried out by new investigators across Canada who successfully lead, participate in, and translate outstanding child health research that will respond to children’s health challenges and needs. The New Investigator Research Grant Program is a jointly sponsored program of SickKids Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research ("CIHR") - Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH). Grant recipients may obtain up to three years' support for research in biomedical, clinical, health systems and services, and population and public health sectors.

Do you have an innovative evidence-based AgeTech solution that is ready for implementation or scaling up in the real world? AGE-WELL’s AgeTech Implementation Response (AIR) Program supports post-discovery projects focused on implementing solutions.

This program focuses on implementation practice defined as using strategies to change people’s behavior and the environment in which they are working (e.g. communities, home care, long-term care and seniors living settings) by introducing innovative solutions. Implementation practice is informed by implementation science, which is defined as the best evidence available related to the successful implementation of technology-based solutions.

The focus of this RFP is to enable implementation efforts by focusing on real-world application of AgeTech innovations in collaboration with partners.

To be eligible to the competition, applications must address ALL objectives AND key design components:

• Establish central coordination and collaboration activities with Collaborating Sites located across Canada to increase the availability of high-quality and real-time evidence to support research on the effectiveness and relative safety of the COVID-19 vaccines in children and youth;
• Generate research evidence related to COVID-19 infection and vaccination consequences in diverse children and youth population(s), including (but not limited to):
  • Equity considerations;
  • Health and well-being status (e.g., historically excluded or underserved populations, individuals with complex health needs and/or a disability);
  • Sex and gender; and/or
  • Racialized and Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous) populations.
• Identify children and youth populations at the highest and high risk for negative outcomes related to COVID-19 infection and/or vaccination consequences, and other determinant of health factors (e.g., social, economic, behaviour, etc.) that are associated with this increased greater risk.
• Harmonize data collection, and improve open and real-world data sharing with relevant knowledge-users in an accessible, useful and relevant format to support a timely and effective COVID-19 public health response within and across all jurisdictions in Canada as it relates to children and youth;
• Collaborate across Sites to establish resource and data sharing policies, increase efficiencies in research and related processes (including but not limited to ethics review; privacy considerations; contracts; informed-consent; common protocols; developing applications for trial funding; consistent and valid patient-oriented outcomes), reduce duplication, and maximize research and surveillance activities related to COVID-19 infection and/or vaccination consequences of children and youth; and
• Provide research evidence to inform clinical and health system management and public health response, and/or decision-making and planning within and all across jurisdictions in Canada and internationally.

Making the Shift is seeking proposals from researchers and community organizations (who can hold tri-council funding) for one-time grants. We are looking for research projects that contribute to our evidence base of policy and service enhancements that prevent youth homelessness in Canada. Youth Homelessness prevention is defined in The Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness.

Deadline for applications is February 28th, 2022 at 5:00PM EST.

Applications must respond to one of the following funding streams: 

Stream A: Youth Focused Harm Reduction

Stream B: Legal and Justice Issues

Stream C: Cost-Benefit Analysis

Stream D: Evictions Prevention

Stream E: Data & Technology: Understanding the Role of Linked Administrative Data in Preventing Youth Homelessnes

Stream F: Pathways into Homelessness

Stream G: Open Prevention Topic

WHO CAN APPLY 

1. Individuals or institutions can apply. 
2. Applicants must be affiliated with a Canadian post-secondary academic institution. Principal Investigators must be tenure stream faculty or adjunct faculty members. 
3. Not-for-profit organizations can apply for funding, provided they meet Tri-Council requirements and submit the supporting documentation, including affiliation with an academic institution. 
4. Indigenous not-for-profit organizations wanting to administer the grant funds should apply for institutional eligibility.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with expected impact to use the results in the future for benefit of patients.
• Accelerate diagnosis and/or explore disease progression and mechanisms of rare diseases.

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator, at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

The overarching objective of this funding opportunity is to address the pressing needs of PSP organizations and support service providers in providing effective and evidence-based supports for PSP experiencing PTSI.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• To contribute to the improved health of PSP with PTSI by generating relevant and timely evidence around the merit, validity, and appropriateness of the two targeted support systems identified through this program.
• To assess the potential impacts of these two targeted support systems on PSP, including through novel and innovative research approaches directly using the core technologies/methodologies in place at the Research and Coordination hubs.
• To contribute to the development of sustainable support systems for PSP by catalyzing research on potentially effective support models, and through the development of evidence summaries, best practices, and guidance documents for the targeted support models identified through this program.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are:

• to support high quality research aligned with priorities identified in the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada's annual report in order to strengthen public health systems in Canada and improve population health and health equity;
• to strengthen links between researchers, knowledge users and decision-makers, including communities, and facilitate responsive and evidence-informed decision-making on key public health issues; and
• to strengthen capacity to generate and apply context-specific knowledge in order to build more effective and equitable public health systems.

Small grants to promote growth of new connections between scholars, practitioners, educators, and/or communicators working to understand, spread the word about, and mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health.

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman, International Research Facilitator at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca