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CIHR launched its Café Scientifique program as an outreach initiative that would provide answers to questions of popular interest to the general public. As a result, over 540 CIHR Café Scientifiques events have been funded to provide educational and informal discussions regarding popular health topics. CIHR Cafés are typically held in bars or cafés, and involve a panel of experts who specialize in the topic at hand. The primary point of these events is accessibility: to be a member of the audience, you don't have to have a science degree. You need to be interested in learning and asking questions.

Through its Café Scientifique program, CIHR organizes its own Café events but also establishes partnerships with non-profit organizations, universities, research centres, science centres and museums across Canada. If successful, these Café Scientifique partners can expect to receive $3,000 in funding to host their own Café. Please note: these funds can be used to host more than one Café.

Through the Institute Community Support (ICS) Program, the CIHR Institutes 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.

The quest to radically improve the value of what we spend on health care is a priority shared by health systems around the globe.

To achieve this, we must look beyond our own backyards for game changing ideas, by expanding our horizon and casting our net across the globe. We can learn from the experience and successes of unexpected sources – those of emerging markets, in which restricted resources have forced populations to innovate on value.

Translating innovations that have been created for the developing world to the industrialized world has been called “reverse innovation”. 1

By forming new collaborations across borders and disciplines, we can draw lessons that will help generate solutions to address the needs of health systems around the world. It’s about challenging our thinking and the status quo. It’s about exchanging ideas and sharing experience. It’s about new ways of innovating and implementing to improve health care.

The IMPART research training program provides research training awards to highly qualified individuals pursuing a career in addictions research with a particular focus on sex/gender, women and addictions (and intersections with mental health, violence and trauma). Awards consist of a time-limited stipend and a research/travel allowance for graduate students studying at the Master's and Doctoral level, and for Postdoctoral Fellows and Clinician Researchers.

This innovative, multidisciplinary program is designed to equip health researchers from across disciplines, sectors and settings to conduct sex- and gender-based analyses in addictions research with a focus on the intersections of addictions with violence, trauma and mental health.

The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have used, applied, or remixed scientific research — published through Open Access — to make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology or society as a whole.

• Three top awards of $30,000 each*
• A trip to Washington, D.C., to be honored at Open Access Week in October, 2013
• Inclusion in a portfolio book distributed online and in print around the world

CIHR's mandate is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened health care system. An important part of this knowledge translation is the dissemination and application of health research evidence. For more information please see About Knowledge Translation.

The CIHR Science, Knowledge Translation and Ethics Branch will provide support to dissemination events/activities that focus on the communication of health research evidence to the appropriate researcher and/or knowledge user audience(s), tailoring the message and medium as appropriate.

Priority Announcements offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the "201306KPE" competition of the Planning Grants: Spring 2013 Competition funding opportunity.

CIHR and external partner(s) financial contributions for this initiative are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or external partner(s) funding levels not be available or are decreased due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to grants received as a result of this funding opportunity.

In this competition, funds are available to encourage and support applications in specific areas that are aligned with CIHR's research priority areas and mandates. Information on the research areas to be funded as well as the maximum amounts per grant that can be requested is found in the "Objectives" section.

Nominate your community leader today!

Leaders are our neighbours, colleagues, friends and family.

Many leaders go unrecognized but their efforts are felt deep in the heart of our communities. These leaders understand that health starts where we live, learn, work and play.

The 3M Health Leadership Award honours leaders who have a significant impact on the health and well-being of their community.
 

The purpose of the fund is to assist in financing educational opportunities for current and future telehealth nurses and all HealthlinkBC employees. A joint committee between HLBC and the BC Nurses Union (BCNU) has been established to set application criteria. The fund would be administered by the BCNU.

The parties recognize that persons employed in the provision of telehealth services provide a unique service to the citizens of B.C. and other jurisdictions and, in turn, may require different skill levels to provide the desired quality of care. Rapidly evolving health system changes have created an impetus for finding innovative approaches to providing clinical and non-clinical telehealth services.

This fund is intended to support the acquisition of knowledge, skills and abilities that can be applied to the advancement and adoption of information and telecommunications technologies for the delivery of telehealth.

Quality of Life Research Grants have been created to support quality of life cancer research that has the potential to make a significant impact on the burden of disease in patients, survivors and caregivers. These grants are intended to explore psychosocial, survivorship, supportive care and end-of-life issues, research gaps, needs and opportunities, or models for follow-up care. The grants are meant to accelerate and focus the knowledge gained from scientific findings, in the short or long term, into outcomes that will result in the reduced burden or enhanced quality of life for cancer patients in Canada and elsewhere.

The Society offers small grants in support of projects designed to improve pain management or to promote education about pain.
Examples of such projects include:
• One-time grant for seed money to establish an interdisciplinary pain interest group, paying for communication (printing, postage, fax) and other direct startup costs
• Forgivable loan in support of an educational conference or seminar, money to be repaid to the Society if the conference makes a profit
• Grant to support cooperative activities (e.g., printing and distribution of information) by groups (formal or informal) of people who have pain
In the past, the Society has provided seed money to support local self-help groups for chronic pain patients (providing postage, printing, long-distance phone and fax costs), and to support development of a multidisciplinary pain interest group (video rental, postage, printing).

$1,250.00 Per Application – 8 Small Grants Yearly – 2 per quarter
 

CIHR is Canada's major federal funding agency for health research. Its objective is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products and a strengthened Canadian health care system.

CIHR integrates research through a unique interdisciplinary structure made up of 13 virtual Institutes. The Institutes are networks of researchers and stakeholders brought together to focus on important health problems, with each Institute dedicated to a specific area of focus, linking and supporting researchers pursuing common goals.

One of the mechanisms for the Institutes to achieve their mandates is the Institute Community Support (ICS) Program. The ICS Program is designed to foster community development by:

• Providing grants, awards or prizes in aid of research and knowledge translation activities where the circumstances fall outside of CIHR's current suite of funding programs.
• Supporting individuals and organizations whose goals are consistent with CIHR Institutes' vision, mandate and strategic directions.

The ICS Program is not intended to support the direct cost of research (e.g., pilot projects, feasibility studies or operating grants), principal and co-investigator salaries or research equipment.