About Us

We fund people and research, and we partner on shared opportunities. Funded by our provincial government, we support a health research system that improves health and health care and strengthens the economy.

Our programs build research careers, our investments advance priority research, and our expertise accelerates the use of research evidence.

As a provincial organization, our work extends across many Indigenous lands and territories throughout BC. We acknowledge with respect and humility that our Vancouver office is located on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Current Funding Opportunities

CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship

Through a partnership with CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, the HSI Fellowship provides doctoral and postdoctoral awardees with an experiential learning opportunity within health system organizations, where they can advance the organization’s impact goals and contribute to improved health system performance.

Applications are now open for:

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Regional Diversity

Photo of a research participant taking part in a research study. The person is running on a treadmill with multiple cameras and trackers.

Video: How Vancouver Island University researchers are solving local challenges

25 April 2025

Vancouver Island University researchers are engaging with communities to solve pressing challenges that impact health across the region.

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Image of a collage of the BC recipients of the 2025-26 IMPaCT Fellowship awards. Researchers from top left to right: Tanjot Singh, Kaitlin Berris, Kevin Meesters, Lena Xiao, and Liton Furukawa.

Partnership strengthens clinical trial capacity in maternal and paediatric health

Through the 2025-26 IMPaCT training awards, Michael Smith Health Research BC is co-funding five BC researchers to grow BC's capacity for high-quality clinical trials.

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A group of ten professionally dressed individuals standing side by side against a beige wall at the Life Sciences BC’s Showcase Series: Vancouver Island event. Dr. Sandy Shultz is second from the left; on his right is Dr. Bev Holmes, President & CEO of Health Research BC.

Breaking barriers in brain injury care

24 April 2025

Partnerships are driving the future of health research in BC. Together, we go further. Partner with us to double your impact and take your work to the next level—just like we did with Dr. Sandy Shultz’s groundbreaking research.

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