Issue 228
Contents
1) Peer Review
a) Matching the right applications to the right reviewers
2) Program Related Information
a) Clarification on reviewer eligibility for the Project Grant competition
b) CIHR takes concrete steps to strengthen Indigenous health research in Canada
3) Funding Opportunities
a) Funding opportunities posted between November 1 and November 14, 2016 by CIHR and its partners
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1) Peer Review
a) Matching the right applications to the right reviewers
An important step in the peer review process is matching the right applications to the right reviewers. For the Project Grant: Fall 2016 competition, CIHR is embarking on a new matching process for the Conflict and Ability to Review step. In a podcast, CIHR Associate Vice-President Jeff Latimer provides an overview of how the matching is done and what reviewers can expect from the process. Listen to the podcast
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2) Program Related Information
a) Clarification on reviewer eligibility for the Project Grant competition
Contrary to information recently circulated, applicants who meet the peer reviewer criteria are eligible to be reviewers. As per the Peer Review Working Group recommendations endorsed by CIHR, they just cannot participate in the cluster of applications containing their own application. Read more
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b) CIHR takes concrete steps to strengthen Indigenous health research in Canada
Speaking at the National Forum on the 20th Anniversary of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Dr. Alain Beaudet, announced new steps the agency is taking to strengthen its relationship with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and, ultimately, improve Indigenous health outcomes in Canada.
CIHR announced that it is increasing its investments in Indigenous health research to a minimum of 4.6 per cent of its annual budget – approximately $46 million per year. This amount is proportional to Canada’s Indigenous population (First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples make up approximately 4.6 per cent of the Canadian population).
Increased funding is just one way that CIHR is re-engaging in a dialogue with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Read more about the announcement
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3) Funding Opportunities
a) Funding opportunities posted between November 1 and November 14, 2016 by CIHR and its partners
The following is a list of funding opportunities which CIHR and its partners posted between November 1 and November 14, 2016.
To view these opportunities, please use the CIHR Funding Opportunity Database.
Simply select the opportunity from the list which is sorted alphabetically.
* Catalyst Grant: Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis
* Operating Grant: Optimizing the VSV Vector towards an HIV Vaccine
* Operating Grant: Sugar and Health
* Other: CIHR-IPPH Trailblazer Award
* Other: Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (2016-2017)
* Other: Collaborative Centres of HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research
* Other: Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program (2017)
Please refer to the Contact Information section of the funding opportunity if you have additional questions about the funding opportunity.
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CIHR Wants to Hear from You
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder – CIHR wants to hear from you as much as possible. There is a wonderful story to tell about the results and benefits of health research in Canada, but we need your help to truly make this a page turner. And, we need to keep telling this story. So, we encourage you to let us know when you have or, better still, are close to publishing the results of research funded by CIHR. Please drop us a line at mediarelations@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.
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Contact Information
CIHR welcomes your questions and feedback and is committed to responding to your requests promptly.
Please direct all inquiries to the CIHR Contact Centre. Officers are available Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET and until 8 p.m. ET on deadline days.
Contact Centre
Telephone: 613-954-1968
Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178
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