What are the opportunities for Colleges and Institutes within CIHR? Mark Bisby [e-mail]

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What are the opportunities for Colleges and
Institutes within CIHR?Mark Bisbymbisby_at_cihr.ca

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Budget 2003 CIHR Funding

• Funding for the three granting councils (CIHR,
  NSERC, SSHRC) to be increased by a total of 125
  million (10) in each of the next three years
• 55 million of this for CIHR
• No increases in funding specified for future
  years
• There may be a crunch in 2004-05

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Related health research funding

• Indirect costs program now made permanent
• 225 million per year, half going to health
  research and with a focus on commercialization
• Canada Foundation for Innovation
• 500 million over four years for a Hospital
  Research Infrastructure Fund
• Genome Canada
• 75 million for applied health genomics
• Rick Hansen Man in Motion Foundation
• 15 million over 7 years for research on spinal
  cord injuries
• Medical and Related Sciences (MaRS)
• 20 million for commercialization of research
  findings
• Health Technology Assessment
• 45 million over 4 years to gather evidence to
  ensure that new health technologies are used in
  clinically beneficial and cost-effective ways

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Related health research funding II

• Patient safety
• 190 over 5 years for regulatory reform and to
  improve the approval process for new drugs
• Health human resources
• 90 million over 5 years to improve planning and
  coordination, and the expansion of development
  programs for health professionals working in
  primary care teams
• Canada Health Infoway
• 600 million to accelerate the development of
  electronic health records, IT standards, and
  tele-health applications for rural and remote
  areas
• First Nations health initiatives
• 320 million to expand and enhance the Head Start
  and Child Care initiatives, address Fetal Alcohol
  Syndrome on reserves, a national survey on
  Aboriginal children, and continuing community
  health research

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What this means for CIHR

• Many (all) of these initiatives align with CIHR
  priorities
• New opportunities to partner with other
  initiatives CFI, Genome Canada, Rick Hansen
  Foundation, MaRS, etc.
• Indirect cost issues are being addressed by the
  government

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Budget History(total appropriations, including
NCEs and CRCs)
CIHR
MRC
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Estimated Federal Support for Health Research in
Canada 2002(M)
CHSRF
NCE
Genome Canada
CRC
Indirect Costs
CFI
CIHR
MRC
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Projected Investment of CIHRs Grants and Awards
Budget, 2002-3
527M
Tools
Research projects
People
28M
407M
92M
(18 )
(5)
(77)
Institute
Operating
52M
Support
13M
Grants
Training
Equipment
293M
40M
Maintenance
10M
Careers
82M
Research
Clinical
Infrastructure 5M
Collaborative
Trials
programs
32M
These are estimates only, based on budget
allocations, actual commitments, and projections
for the types of investments to be made through
Institute-sponsored strategic initiatives.
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CIHR Supports

• Strategic Research Initiatives
• Priority areas chosen by Institutes
• Requests for application

• Investigator-initiated research proposals
• Any area of health research
• Open competition

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Grants and Awards Budgets, MRC 1997-98 CIHR
2002-03
Strategic
215M
Open
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CIHRs Strategic Outlook
Build Canadas international leadership through
national excellence in health research.
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CIHR.Transforming the Health Research Landscape
Strategic Outlook
Existing and innovative programs
Institute-sponsored research initiatives
Cross-cutting strategic initiatives
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Examples of Institute-sponsored Strategic
Initiatives

• Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
  and partners
• Excellence, Innovation and Advancement in the
  Study of Obesity and Healthy Body Weight
• Institute of Aboriginal Peoples Health
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect
• Institute of Health Services and Policy Research
  and partners
• Financing Health Care in the Face of Changing
  Public Expectations
• CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunityand
  partners
• Food and Water Safety

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Food and Water Safety Partnership
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CIHR recent innovative programs

• New Emerging Teams strengthen neglected topics
• Institutional Establishment Grants brain gain
• Institutional Development Grants catalyst for
  smaller universities
• ACADRE engagement of aboriginal people
• Invention, POP, and IPM strengthen application
  and commercialization of health research
• Strategic Training Initiative the next
  generation of health researchers

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CIHR.Transforming the Health Research Landscape
Strategic Outlook
Existing and innovative programs
Institute-sponsored research initiatives
Cross-cutting strategic initiatives
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Cross-Cutting CIHR Strategic Initiatives, under
development

• Rural and Northern Health
• Canadian Lifelong Health Initiative
• Clinical Science Initiative
• Global Health Research

• Reducing Health Disparities and Improving Health
  of Vulnerable Populations
• Regenerative Medicine
• Environment and health
• Tobacco
• Injury prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation

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Colleges and CIHR
The Good News Researchers at Colleges and
Not-for-profit Institutions are eligible for all
CIHRs programs of research support.
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Colleges and CIHR

• The Bad
  News
• Most open programs are incredibly competitive,
  with discouragingly low success rates e.g latest
  operating grants competition 28 success rate
  (24 before budget increase) 15 for first-time
  applicants.
• Success rates for most strategic initiative
  competitions are higher (30-40).
• Go for the strategic competitions!
• Establish linkages with successful researchers
  and participate as co-applicants.
• Build on your strengths..

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Colleges and CIHR
Applied Research Innovation
Colleges and Institutes are well positioned to
spur innovation and economic revitalization
within the regions they serve provide targeted
applied research and rapid technology transfer
support to regional business and industry
strengthen capacity of SMEs and their communities
to be innovative, adopt and adapt technological
processes develop new products or processes and
bring products to market rapidly (http//www.accc.
ca/ftp/zGov-Relations/2002Innovation.pdf )
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CIHR and the innovation pipeline
Open grants
CIHR/RxD
CIHR/SME
Clinical trials
Spin-off companies
Proof of Principle
Venture capital
Invention
CIHR/IRAP
Intellectual Property Management
End-user
IDEA
Discovery
Early-stage
Late-stage
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Colleges and CIHR
Community Capacity Development
Colleges and Institutes are catalysts for
increasing economic and educational opportunities
in their communities and act as partners
or agents for local innovative community
development are anchors to local community
innovation by complementing the economic and
environmental assets for communities to develop
local strategies are building community networks
of employers, community groups and local/regional
governments are creating a national dialogue on
rural and remote communities socio-economic
development, including aboriginal participation
the only post-secondary presence in
many Canadian communities
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Community Alliances for Health Research (CAHRs)

• Helping to get Saskatoon "In Motion"
• Saskatoon In Motion Building Community Capacity
  through Physical Activity and Health Promotion
  has been awarded a 1 million grant by CIHR. Led
  by University of Saskatchewan kinesiology
  researcher Karen Chad, the project team involves
  10 lead researchers from the University's
  Kinesiology and Medicine departments, Saskatoon
  District Health, the City of Saskatoon and
  ParticipACTION.

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grant money, along with 3 million in "in-kind"
contributions from project partners, will be used
to hire seven full-time research assistants, a
program coordinator, clerical assistants, and a
community research liaison. It will also fund
graduate scholarships, community internships for
graduate students and "community sabbaticals"
allowing community workers to spend time on
campus to develop their research skills.
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Community Alliances for Health Research (CAHRs)

SafetyNet studies occupational health and safety
of marine and coastal work. Despite the
notoriously dangerous and risky nature of marine
and coastal occupations, relatively little
research has been done. Successfully studying
workplace health and safety involves coordinating
researchers from a wide range of backgrounds and
participation of a broad range of community
partners.

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SafetyNet is proud to have created a community
alliance that includes researchers in medicine,
nursing, social sciences, natural sciences,
engineering and marine sciences, and involves
partners in the public sector, private sector and
in the very coastal communities in which the
research is taking place.
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Rural, Remote and Northern Health

• Strategies
• The Canada Rural Communities Cohort Study
• Rural Health Research Shops A Centre-Focused
  Research and Development Awards Program
• Community Alliances for Health Research Rural
  and Northern
• RuralNet
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Request for Applications 2002 Building Healthy
Communities Through Rural and Northern Health
Research
  The goal of this strategic initiative is to
foster research on understanding and enhancing
health, and health services and policy, in small
and remote communities around three key research
themes (1) understanding and improving the
health status of rural and northern
populations, (2) designing health systems
(services and policy) that work for small and
remote communities (3) knowledge translation -
making health research more accessible and
useable by rural/northern practitioners,
policy-makers and citizens. At the same time,
this RFA is an opportunity to develop and
strengthen interdisciplinary research teams that
are interested in healthy communities and in
rural and northern health-related issues.
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Colleges and CIHR

• Long-term strategy Focus on your strengths in
  applied research and innovation, and community
  linkages
• Short-term strategy Get to know each other
  better use the CIHR University Delegate system
• Disseminate CIHR funding opportunities through
  ACCC channels
• Regional College Forums where CIHR staff,
  Institute Directors can discuss possibilities
• Improve linkages between established
  local/regional health research community and
  college-based researchers (seed from CIHR?)
• First Step Presentation by ACCC to CIHRs
  Research Planning and Priorities Committee.