The Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program is expected to:

• Advance research and discovery in the biomedical sciences;
• Encourage scientific collaboration between Canadian and Israeli researchers and trainees; and
• Build capacity in biomedical science and foster scientific relations and collaborations with researchers and trainees in low and middle-income countries.

The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship (for doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows) provides highly-qualified doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows studying health services and policy research (HSPR), or related fields, a unique opportunity to apply their research and analytic talents to critical challenges in health care that are being addressed by health system and related organizations (e.g., public, private for-profit, not-for-profit, and Indigenous health organizations that are not universities) outside of the traditional scholarly setting, and to also develop professional experience, new skills, and networks.

This funding opportunity is expected to:

• Support Indigenous community-based health research that reflects the priorities and values of Indigenous Peoples;
• Develop an Indigenous community-based health research network environment that will support Indigenous leadership and research-related organizations with existing and new research infrastructures and platforms;
• Augment awareness, capacity and relevance of Indigenous health research that improves the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples across all health research domains;
• Improve understanding of Indigenous health research and Indigenous research paradigms through ethical and impactful partnerships between Indigenous communities and health researchers, scholars, professors and instructors, research administrators, policy and decision makers, and other parties with an interest in Indigenous health research;
• Engage Indigenous Peoples in Canada in leading and conducting health research and KT;
• Engage with researchers, Indigenous Peoples, and other relevant parties from different countries as appropriate, in order to advance the objectives of the NEIHR centres; and
• Develop enduring NEIHR centres with sustainable mandates to build research capacity, conduct research, advance Indigenous research paradigms, and carry out KT activities.

The overall goals of the HeLTI initiative are to:

• Generate evidence that will inform national policy and decision making for the improvement of health and the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
• Position Canada as a global leader in the DOHaD field.

The objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Establish the infrastructure, capacity and partnerships necessary to develop and ultimately conduct an Indigenous-driven I-HeLTI DOHaD Intervention Cohort Research Study, including:
  • Recruiting women, both preconception and during pregnancy, their infants and the fathers;
  • Designing an intervention to develop, conduct and evaluate interventions for and with women and men during preconception, pregnancy and, for infants, during the postnatal period to substantially reduce the prevalence of NCDs;
  • Conducting evaluative and mechanistic studies that will explain the effect of the selected interventions on outcomes, including epigenetic and economic analyses of interventions; and
  • Developing governance processes, including research data management practices.
• Develop cross-community collaborations that will provide a multi-disciplinary learning platform and training environment for early career researchers and trainees;
• Generate evidence that will guide policy and other decision making, and identify opportunities for future research and interventions as part of a longer-term strategy for NCD prevention;
• Decrease the incidence of risk factors for later-life NCDs by targeting early exposures and early development, particularly related to women and men’s health preconception, during pregnancy, early life and in early childhood.
• Establish a platform for sustained investment through long-term Indigenous community engagement and institutional commitments.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide undergraduate students and health professional students with the opportunity to undertake health research projects with established investigators in an environment that provides strong mentorship.

The CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) will provide funding for meritorious applications that are determined to be relevant to one or more areas of its mandate. CIHR-IMHA’s mandate is to support ethical and impactful research to enhance active living, mobility and oral health, and to address the wide range of conditions related to bones, joints, muscles, connective tissue, skin and teeth. More information on CIHR-IMHA’s research priorities can be found on the IMHA Strategic research priorities web page.

Through the Institute Community Support (ICS) Program, the CIHR Institutes and Initiatives are launching the ICS Travel Awards competition for students, postdoctoral fellows, new investigators and knowledge users to present their own research at national and international meetings and/or conferences.

This ICS Travel Awards competition will not support travel for research skills development or update, exchange programs or lectureships.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:

Marie Sklowdowska–Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges (RISE) program

https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/msca-rise

The MSCA RISE program, part of the Horizon 2020 Initiative, promotes international and cross-sector collaboration through exchanging research and innovation staff, and sharing knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa).  Deadline: 02 April 2019.

The MSCA RISE program provides grants that enable researchers and staff to undertake short-term exchanges with partner organizations around the world (can include including universities, research institutes, as well as industrial or commercial partners). Partnerships must include at least two partners from the EU or associated countries, but can be global in scope. All fields are eligible, and funding can last for up to four years.  Non-EU participation is determined through bilateral agreements with local criteria; Canadian participation in the MSCA RISE Program is co-funded by Mitacs.  

A Partners Search listing is available on the European Commission website.

MSCA RISE Staff Exchange program (Hosting opportunities):  Secondment of European staff (includes PhD students, faculty, research staff, and administrative or technical staff) can last from one month to one year. Canadian students and faculty, as well as staff at research institutes and companies, can host. Proposals must highlight knowledge creation, sharing know-how, and skills development. 

Students and Post-doctoral Researchers (Exchange opportunities):  Students (undergraduate-PhD) and Postdoctoral Fellows at Canadian universities (regardless of nationality) are eligible to be hosted at partner institutions in Europe through the Mitacs Globalink Research Award (university) or Accelerate International (commercial site).

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

Nominations are now open for
the 2019 Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards. These prizes will be awarded to individuals ensuring future food security for the planet through research and through community organization. Nomination submission closes January 31st, 2019.

Award Adjudicators

The awards are adjudicated by a panel of international experts in food and agriculture science, as well as leaders of global movements. 

• Christine Daughtery: Vice President Global Sustainable Agriculture & Responsible Sourcing, PepsiCo 
• Sir Charles Godfray: Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Population Biology at Oxford University, Adjudication Committee Chair
• Pamela Ronald: Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, UC Davis 
• Sheila Watt-Cloutier: Environmental and Aboriginal rights, formerly Canadian President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council