Health Research Rapid Response
To ensure that Canada is adequately prepared to respond to urgent health research threats in a timely and coordinated manner, CIHR received support for an Emerging Health Threats Research Fund. The fund supports a series of complementary research activities by issuing research grants to Canadian researchers in order to mitigate or prevent the harm posed by potential or emerging health threats. The Emerging Health Threats Research Fund is intended to build the Canadian health research landscape's capacity to identify emerging threats well in advance and have the appropriate infrastructure in place to meet the threats quickly and effectively. This is achieved through directing timely research grants towards the appropriate researchers in Canada.
CIHR is investing $5M per year to support the advancement of health research and scientific discoveries through an Emerging Health Threats Research Fund. The fund focuses on emerging health threats research needs, as directed by the CIHR's Science Council.
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Funding
CIHR is investing $5M per year to support the advancement of health research and scientific discoveries through an Emerging Health Threats Research Fund. The fund focuses on emerging health research needs, as directed by the CIHR's Science Council.
Funding Initiatives
- Ebola Research Funding Initiatives
CIHR proudly supported rapid response initiatives that assisted in Canada's response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2015. - Zika Research Funding Initiatives
CIHR and IDRC proudly supported a rapid response initiative which assisted the global health research community in responding to the spread of the Zika virus. - Refugees Research Funding Initiatives
There is an opportunity for Canada to play a leadership role in opening up our health research community to newly arrived refugees. - Alberta Wildfires Research Funding Initiatives
Research supported through this funding opportunity is expected to contribute to our understanding of how contextual conditions may intersect with health actions to preserve health and promote health equity.
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