Funding
Up to $1,300,000.00 is available in 2020-21.
Endgame Leader Awards
Salary support for leaders at different stages of their careers who are interested in working with the OHTN to drive change.
1. Endgame Leader Chair Award (LOI Application Deadline: April 14, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The Endgame Leader Chair Award provides salary support for 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. The Chair Award is for an individual with an excellent and relevant program of data, evidence-sharing, and impact that aims to close gaps in HIV prevention, testing and diagnosis, engagement in care, or achievement of viral suppression. Chair recipients will drive change in Ontario by working with defined populations of people affected by HIV. Their data, evidence-sharing, and impact activities should uncover gaps, identify solutions, and examine interventions at multiple points on the cascade.
2. Innovator Award (LOI Application Deadline: April 14, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The Endgame Leader Innovator Award provides salary support for 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. The Innovator Award is for outstanding mid-career and senior innovators who have already secured project funds from their institutions, organizations, or other funding bodies, and who are seeking salary support/time release to focus on projects relevant to at least one of the areas of rapid learning and improvement. Their work will focus on projects that fill HIV prevention and care knowledge gaps or evaluate interventions to improve programs and services.
3. Endgame Leader Policy and Practice Award (LOI Application Deadline: April 14, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The Endgame Leader Policy and Practice Award recognizes service providers and health care professionals who already have influence with(in) HIV-affected communities and who have relevant and impactful plans to translate data and evidence into improved programs and care. This award provides a tool for the OHTN to advance program and policy change in Ontario by supporting effective leaders.
The award supports applicants by contributing towards the grantee’s salary (or that of a support staff member) in order to free the Policy and Practice Leader’s time to:
• Lead and nurture data, evidence-sharing, and impact initiatives that emerge from community priorities; work with the populations most affected by HIV in Ontario; and have immediate potential to enhance the care of people living with HIV, impact the transmission of HIV, or reduce the stigmatization of people living with HIV
• Create programs, policies, and protocols designed to move evidence into practice
• Mentor innovators, caregivers, and community-based providers to address the needs of communities and to generate evidence designed to improve programs and care for people living with and at risk of HIV
• Spur practice changes within their organization or practice community that reflect generated data or evidence
4. Endgame Leader Junior Investigator Award (LOI Application Deadline: April 14, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The Endgame Leader Junior Investigator Award provides 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.
The Junior Investigator Award is for emergent leaders in HIV inquiry (including current postdoctoral fellows) who are preparing to establish a HIV program of data, evidence-sharing, and impact. Junior Investigators must be committed to collaboration with other OHTN-funded leaders and stakeholders. Projects should be relevant to the areas of rapid learning and improvement. Their program of data, evidence-sharing, and impact should aim to fill knowledge gaps in HIV prevention and care or evaluate interventions to improve programs and services.
5. Endgame Leader Community Fellowship Award (Application Deadlines: April 14, 2020 & June 15, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The Endgame Leader Community Fellowship Award provides salary support for 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.
The Community Fellowship Award is for community members, clinicians, other frontline providers, and decision-makers who work in a social service or health service agency and whose work will support the uptake of data and evidence to drive change. This award provides support to address at least one gap identified by frontline service providers, define the challenge, and/or identify solutions.
6. Endgame Leader Student Leadership Award (Application Deadline: June 15, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The Endgame Leader Student Leadership Award provides a stipend for 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.
The Student Leadership Award is for excellent PhD students who are working with OHTN-funded leaders or other Ontario-based HIV investigators, and who have the potential to become HIV leaders. Their work should explore gaps in, identify barriers to, or identify facilitators of effective HIV prevention, treatment, and care in Ontario, and collaborate with a population with whom the student’s mentor also has strong ties.
7. Game Changer Awards - Breaking New Ground Award (LOI Application Deadline: April 14, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
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 frontline 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.
Breaking New Ground Awards provide operating dollars for data, evidence-sharing, and impact activities. Successful projects will demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach to data and implementation; integrate planning for evidence-sharing; advance effective ways to use Ontario resources to drive change; and contribute towards a rapid learning health and social system for HIV.
8. Game Changer Awards - Implementation Science Award (LOI Application Deadline: April 14, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The Game Changer Awards are investigator-driven awards that will build on the innovation and engagement of Ontario’s HIV community to generate knowledge, 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.
9. OHTN Community-Based Project and Participatory Evaluation Program (CBPPEP) - Application Deadlines: April 14, 2020 & June 15, 2020 (5:00 pm EST))
The OHTN Community-Based Project and Participatory Evaluation Program (CBPPEP) is designed to help achieve the mission of the OHTN: to improve the health and well-being of people living with and at risk of HIV in Ontario, through a network that promotes the use of data and evidence to drive change. The CBPPEP will assist communities by supporting both the production and discovery of knowledge through community-based inquiry and the use of evidence to drive programming through participatory program evaluation.