The Personalized Health Team Grant is expected to:

• Optimize patient/individual empowerment in personalized health care and prevention approaches;
• Assess the value of personalized health care for effective implementation and delivery;
• Generate exemplars that can be used to facilitate future implementation of personalized health approaches;
• Integrate sex, gender and intersectional considerations in the delivery of personalized care approaches, as well as ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social aspects; and
• Implement personalized health solutions that incorporate predictive analytic methods and eHealth delivery platforms in health delivery organizations.

The Pediatric REB initiative is expected to:

• establish a multi-province streamlined ethics review process for multi-site studies with the goal of achieving a single ethics review for pediatric research studies.

• Increase Canadian capacity to measure the impact of patient-oriented research in order to demonstrate the extent of health, social and economic benefits realized through patient-oriented research;
• Increase the literature currently available on the impact of patient-oriented research in Canada in order to:
  • Enable summative evaluation and meta-analyses on the impact of patient-oriented research; and,
  • Demonstrate how patient-oriented research compares to other health research approaches in terms of the potential to translate evidence into the health care system.

This funding opportunity is expected to:

• Increase the number of high quality patient-oriented researchers in Canada;
• Increase career readiness of graduate trainees and post-doctoral fellows in patient-oriented research; and
• Support the timely transition of these trainees into launching an independent patient-oriented research career.

In addition to the above objectives, the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Pool aims to:

• Increase the number of Indigenous Health Research trainees pursuing a meaningful and culturally relevant patient-oriented research career.

The Doctoral Foreign Study Award (DFSA) is expected to:

• Provide recognition and funding to students early in their academic research career, providing them with an opportunity to gain research experience abroad; and
• Provide a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers.

The objective of the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D) Program is:

• To promote continued excellence in Canadian research by rewarding and retaining high-calibre graduate students at Canadian institutions. By providing support for a high-quality research training experience to awardees;
• Strive to foster impacts within and beyond the research environment.

The CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) is launching its sixth round of the IHDCYH Talks Video Competition, a unique opportunity to submit short videos (5 minutes or less) sharing evidence-based messages in the area of maternal, reproductive, child and youth health. This competition encourages the production of videos that present a clear evidence-based message to a lay audience that is designed to have a positive impact on the health of children, youth and families.

This competition is soliciting videos not just from members of the research community, but also more widely, from non-governmental or not-for-profit organizations (including community or charitable organizations), as well as members of the general public who are able to demonstrate a clear, evidence-based message related to IHDCYH's mandate.

Successful videos will be posted on CIHR and IHDCYH social media and shared through other communications channels. It is important that the content be engaging, easily understood and accessible to a lay audience. For information on the IHDCYH Talks program, and to view the videos from past competition winners, see the IHDCYH Talks webpage. 

CIHR and other funding agencies have invested heavily in the establishment of cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, and data platforms. As a result, many high-quality data sets exist containing information on populations, health systems, patient information, and biospecimens. These data sets contain a wealth of information and have the potential to answer research questions that go beyond those for which the data were originally collected or for which the data has been used to date. There is also the potential to link diverse datasets, thus enabling explorations of novel associations and interactions between human, environmental, and clinical factors. Analyses using these existing resources are also a cost-effective way to provide high quality and timely evidence to improve patient outcomes and for population and public health decision making.

The intent of this funding opportunity is to highlight and encourage use for research of previously funded cohorts, administrative and survey data to inform improved patient, population and system outcomes. Examples of such data sources include but are not limited to:

• Large, well-established cohorts include (but are not limited to) the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP), the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals (MIREC) study, and the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study.
• Cohort catalogues that bring together datasets from multiple sources include the Research Advancement through Cohort Cataloguing and Harmonization (ReACH) initiative and the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) Dynamic Cohort of Complex, High System Users.
• Data platforms that allow access to and/or linkage of multiple datasets include the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) and the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN), which allows access to Statistics Canada data and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data related to housing.

This funding opportunity will support research that uses existing cohort data, administrative datasets, surveys, registries, cohort catalogues, and data platforms that link or allow access to datasets from multiple sources within three funding pools: cancer prevention and control; healthy cities intervention research; and reproductive, maternal, child, and youth health.

The Operating Grant: Methamphetamine and related psychostimulant use is expected to:

• Generate new knowledge around prevalence, incidence, and distribution of methamphetamine use in Canada
• Increase the uptake and application of synthesized knowledge in evidence-based decision making, health care and/or health services policy and practice in this space
• Support partnerships between researchers and knowledge users to rapidly inform policies related to prevention, harm reduction, and treatment of methamphetamine use
• Address the pressing intervention-related evidence needs of knowledge users in this space
• Encourage implementation science approaches that consider sub-populations and/or the biological and social determinants of methamphetamine use

The HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research is expected:

• To promote the creation of new knowledge that is relevant to communities affected by HIV and other STBBI in Canada;
• To promote the dissemination of new knowledge and uptake of evidence into action to enhance the community response to the HIV epidemic and other STBBI;
• To develop partnerships between researchers and affected communities;
• To build capacity in the knowledge user community to engage in research and use evidence in their everyday business;
• To build the next generation of HIV/AIDS and other STBBI CBR researchers through meaningful engagement of trainees in high-quality CBR projects; and
• To reduce the incidence of new HIV and/or other STBBI infections in high-risk groups by focusing research on prevention efforts.

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