Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program

Program details

• Identifies and develops outstanding BC health researchers who are actively involved in patient care.
• Helps researchers start and develop new programs of research.
• Protects health professional-investigators’ time to conduct research, develop an independent research career, attract additional research funding, and train the next generation of researchers.
• New for 2025: Guided by advice from Indigenous partners, award holders, peer reviewers and advisors, we are introducing a distinct peer review panel for Indigenous health applications to the 2025 competition. Applicants may choose a review by a panel with expertise in Indigenous health research who will review applications with a central focus on meaningful and culturally safe Indigenous-led research (see guidelines: Section 7, Indigenous Health Research and Section 13, Review Process).
• New for 2025: Top-up funding from the BC SUPPORT Unit is available to recipients whose research involves meaningfully engaging Indigenous communities to support those engagement activities (see Section 7, Indigenous Health Research). 
• New for 2025: Applicants will no longer be able to include a Canadian Common CV in their application and instead will be asked a few new questions to provide information on supervision of trainees, career history, and experience leading or participating in funded research projects (see guidelines: Section 9, Assessment of Research Outputs)