Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Funding and Award Opportunities

Sponsored by Research Services, SFU

MSFHR 2019 Health Professional-Investigator Competition, CIHR ICS Travel Awards (Winter 2019), and New Strategic CIHR Funding Opportunities

MSFHR Funding Launch

Health Professional-Investigator Competition
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)
Deadline: February 11, 2019
The MSFHR Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program is intended to help close the gap between health research and its implementation by supporting practicing health professionals in applying/conducting research that leverages their practical knowledge in patient care in order to improve the patient experience and outcomes.

MSFHR will be hosting a webinar:
When: Wednesday, January 16, 2019, from 10:00 – 11:00 am.

 

CIHR Funding Alerts

Travel Awards, Institute Community Support (ICS)
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: January 24, 2019
ICS Travel Awards support students, postdoctoral fellows, new investigators and knowledge users to present their own research at national and international meetings and/or conferences.
 
Transitions in Care, Evaluation Grants (NEW)
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: February 5, 2019
This competition will support the rigorous evaluation of implemented activities such as interventions, tools, practices, policies, technologies, programs and/or other solutions that address transitions in care challenges.

Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance Call on Diagnostics and Surveillance 2019- CIHR and JPIAMR (Program Launch)
Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance
Deadline: February 18, 2019
The CIHR - JPIAMR joint transnational call for proposals is for innovative research projects on new or improved diagnostics and surveillance strategies, tools, technologies and methods in the areas of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
 

Preliminary Announcement, Call for Proposals, European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Pre-proposal Deadline: February 14, 2019 
The aim of this call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project in the area of rare disease mechanism, progression and diagnostics.

Other, Planning & Dissemination Grants – ICS
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: March 1, 2019
To meet its mandate to excel in creating and translating new knowledge into improved health, health services and health care disciplines, Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) is offering Planning and/or Dissemination grants within the Institute Community Support (ICS) Program to support activities that facilitate researchers' engagement with specific knowledge users and stakeholders.
 
Team Grant, Indigenous Component of Healthy Life Trajectories (I-HeLTI)
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: May 1, 2019
This funding opportunity will support teams to build infrastructure and capacity along the continuum of care and prevention from preconception to pregnancy, infancy and early childhood.
 
Operating Grant, Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR)
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: June 4, 2019
The purpose of the Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) Program is to establish a national network of centres focused on capacity development, research and knowledge translation (KT) centred on Indigenous Peoples (i.e., First Nations, Inuit and Métis).

Pre-announcement, Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program
CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
Deadline: TBD
The Joint Canada-Israel Health Research Program will support a fifth call, to be launched in fall 2018, to support research in the field of metabolism in health and disease. More details will be posted on ResearchNet following the launch of the program.

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