The OHTN will offer five types of grants:

1. Breaking New Ground Grant: project funding for 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
2. Implementation Science Grant: project funding for the development of sustainable, effective HIV programs and services. This funding stream will support implementation science initiatives that will contribute to a rapid learning system for HIV.
3. Junior Investigator Grant: salary support for emergent leaders who are interested in working closely and collaboratively with the OHTN to drive change, contribute to rapid learning and improvement in our sector, and build HIV innovation capacity in Ontario.
4. Postdoctoral Grant: salary support for postdoctoral fellows who are interested in working closely and collaboratively with the OHTN to drive change, contribute to rapid learning and improvement in our sector, and build HIV innovation capacity in Ontario.
5. Community Based Project and Participatory Evaluation Grant: support for community-based agencies, their staff, and people living with HIV to undertake projects, needs assessments, quality improvements, and evaluation activities that help develop and modify effective programs, services, and policies or generate data to make the case for additional HIV inquiry relevant to Ontario’s needs.

Important Deadlines

LOI Application: November 19, 2025 at 12pm EST

Full Application: January 28, 2026 at 12pm EST

 In addition, the Incubator Grant funding stream remains open, with LOI applications due on the first Friday of each month.

Please review the application guidelines, as deadlines differ for each grant. For more information, including detailed application guidelines and access to the OHTN grant application portal, please visit our website

Researchers are invited to apply for a new grant funding opportunity sponsored by Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS) Women and Diversity Health program (WDH) to assess the unique oral health needs of women and gender-diverse members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).

Heart & Stroke, in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) and Brain Canada, is proud to announce a joint commitment of $5 million over five years to support the Cardiac Arrest Team Grants funding opportunity.
 
This bold initiative aims to significantly improve the prediction of cardiac arrest, the survival rates and quality of life for individuals and families affected by cardiac arrest across Canada.
 
Advancing research in cardiac arrest
 
The Cardiac Arrest Team Grants will support multidisciplinary research teams across three key areas:

1. Prediction and early detection: Advancing ability to predict and detect cardiac arrest in the community or in hospital by deepening understanding of its causes and biological mechanisms.
2. Accelerating response and increasing survival: Developing sustainable, evidence-informed approaches to improve emergency response and survival — both out-of-hospital and in-hospital.
3. Optimizing brain recovery: Supporting survivors with evidence-based rehabilitation and recovery strategies that address physical, neurocognitive, and/or mental health needs. This includes support for families, caregivers, and communities.

Click here to view the guidelines.

These grants support short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization events and activities.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

1. Promote research independence and academic research career readiness of highly qualified trainees, such as post-doctoral researchers, clinicians and PhD-holding research associates, belonging to underrepresented groups;
2. Increase the number of funded researchers from underrepresented groups conducting excellent research who secure their first independent research faculty position in a Canadian academic, health system or research institution; and
3. Provide funded researchers from underrepresented groups with early career support to enhance their probability of future success in obtaining independent research funding and launching successful research faculty careers position in Canada that that will contribute to the creation and/or use of health-related knowledge to improve the health of people in Canada.

Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities. This is done through mutual cooperation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources such as cash and/or in-kind contributions.

Researchers interested in applying to this funding opportunity are asked to contact the Office of Research Services at least two months prior to the SSHRC deadline to indicate their interest in the program.

The CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health is proud to partner with the Canadian Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Foundation (CAAIF), Asthma Canada and the Canadian Lung Association to jointly commit $200,000 total to fund two Early Career Researcher (ECR) Awards in Asthma.

Asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases in Canada, affecting over 11.82% of the population (4.7 million people). It disproportionately affects children and youth, leading to frequent emergency room visits and hospitalizations in children. Chronic airway inflammation also significantly reduces the quality of life for individuals and those caring for patients with asthma.

The ECR Award in Asthma aims to support researchers at Canadian institutions early in their independent careers, enabling them to pursue basic, clinical, health services or population health research in the field of asthma.

The CIHR-IA Summer Program in Aging (SPA) is an intensive 5-day capacity-building program with the aim of providing graduate and post-graduate trainees with advanced training that crosses disciplines, offers networking opportunities, and disseminates best practices in research. SPA has been held yearly across Canada since 2006 on a different strategic theme each year. The program brings together up to 40 research trainees and numerous academic mentors to participate in interactive learning sessions over the course of one week. The strategic theme for SPA 2026 will be Impact of climate change on the health of older persons.

The call for applications to the  Global Affairs Canada Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program (FMPBP) for travel to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2026-27 is now open.  External Deadline: November 18, 2025; Internal Deadline: November 4, 2025.  The Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program aims to support Canadian postsecondary institutions that are either developing new collaboration and/or student exchange agreements or strengthening existing agreements with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Global Affairs Canada offers grants to full-time faculty for short-term teaching and/or research activities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

The FMPBP provides up to CAD 7,000 for partnership building activities along with research and/or teaching focused activities with new or existing partner institutions in the LAC region.  Travel is for 3-8 weeks in length; it can begin as early as April 1, 2026 and must be completed before March 31, 2027.  Activities are also expected to strengthen and support student participation in the ELAP scholarship program, which funds LAC students to come to Canada for short-term study or research stays.  The program is administered by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) on behalf of Global Affairs Canada. 

For questions or assistance, please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca or Maiko Scorgie (Lakehead International) at coordinator.gem@lakeheadu.ca.

WEBINAR RECORDING: https://app.cbie.ca/docs/app/isp/Webinar-FMPB-2026-2027.mp4

WEBINAR SLIDES:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Viwg2ntnDJ-YgOD2XPN3PZsV4qMTG3Kb/view?u...