Our
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Supports early career health researchers, helping them form their own research teams, train the next generation of scientists and develop world-leading research programs.

Supports health professionals who are actively involved in patient care to build their health research programs, train the next generation of scientists, and make significant contributions to their field.

Supports the best and brightest health researchers in training to enable career development and support world-class health research in BC.

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.

Supports teams of health researchers and research users to co-develop research that can have direct impacts on people, including patients, health practitioners and policy makers.

Supports teams of researchers and research users to disseminate research evidence with those who can directly benefit from it in order to impact health and care in BC.

We are partnering with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research on a joint funding opportunity for research on research – the application of rigorous methods and analysis to the practice of research itself – its methods, standards, and evaluation. The funding opportunity welcomes applications related to research-on-research (meta-research) in any disciplinary context. Application deadline: February 20, 2025

Through our partnership with Mitacs, this opportunity provides graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with paid internships at BC-based life sciences companies to advance knowledge and gain business skills. Small and medium-size companies gain research expertise that drives innovation, solves complex challenges and helps position BC as a global hub for life sciences.

Through our partnership with Mitacs, this opportunity provides graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with paid internships to gain experience working with BC health organizations (such as health authorities, hospitals, care facilities and community-based health organizations) and municipalities focused on improving health. Trainees apply their research skills to address pressing health and health system focused challenges. Health organizations/municipalities gain research expertise that drives innovative solutions to tackle priority challenges.

 

Through our partnership with CANTRAIN, a CIHR-funded clinical trials training platform, we support clinical research professionals and new investigators in BC to upgrade their skills and gain valuable experience in clinical trial activities outside their own institutions through a unique internship program.

We are partnering with IMPaCT, a CIHR-funded clinical trials training platform, to increase clinical trial capacity in perinatal and child health. The IMPaCT training program is designed to give doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers the skills and network to design, conduct and communicate about clinical trials with pregnant people and children.

Through our partnership with CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, we support research that strengthens the health workforce, led by teams who will inform the implementation, evaluation, spread, and scale of evidence-informed workforce solutions that address system level challenges.

Webinar: June 27, 2023  |  Registration deadline: October 5, 2023   |  Application deadline: November 9, 2023

 

Through our partnerships with CANTRAIN, CAN-TAP-TALENT, CBITN and StrokeCog, clinical trials training platforms (CTTP) funded by CIHR, we help increase clinical trials training, expertise and capacity in BC. The CTTP salary awards enable graduate and postdoctoral trainees to develop competencies in designing, leading and working in clinical trial research.

Through our partnership with BC NEIHR, we support Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) communities, collectives and organizations (ICCOs) who have completed ICCO-led research and want to share research findings in culturally and contextually relevant ways. 

Deadline: January 22, 2024

 

Through our partnership with BC NEIHR, we support Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) communities, collectives and organizations (ICCOs) for community outreach, relationship building and research development activities. 

Deadline: January 22, 2024