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2024 C2 and Reach competitions: Applications open with added priority areas
Michael Smith Health Research BC is pleased to open the 2024 Convening & Collaborating (C2) and Reach competitions today, with additional funding to address priority health challenges.
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Charting the Course: Priority-based funding to address pressing health challenges
Health Research BC will increase focus on research opportunities delivering solutions for BC’s foremost challenges.
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New resource supports Indigenous engagement in health research
BC researchers now have a tool to improve collaboration with Indigenous communities.
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Connecting research talent to life sciences companies
Health Research BC and Mitacs invite research trainees and BC-based companies to take part in a new internship program.
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2023 BC Health Research System Rapid Assessment
This high-level review of BC’s health research system identifies current strengths and areas of opportunity to build a stronger health research system.
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Unleashing the potential of clinical trials: A vision takes shape
We consulted with investigators, trial participants, funders, life sciences companies, health system policymakers and more to create a vision for clinical trials in British Columbia.
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BC SUPPORT Unit
The BC SUPPORT (Support for People & Patient-Oriented Research & Trials) Unit supports, patient-oriented research throughout BC to answer research questions that matter to patients and improve health care.
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Clinical Trials BC
Clinical Trials BC supports clinical trial investigators, sites and institutions to ensure a world-class destination for clinical trials. Focusing on infrastructure and capacity building with a collaborative approach, we enable clinical trial excellence across British Columbia.
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Research Ethics BC
Research Ethics BC supports a province-wide, harmonized system for research ethics reviews of studies conducted in multiple geographic areas involving the resources, people, patients or data from more than one BC research institution. Our harmonized ethics review model co-created with BC health research partners, is now in use by all BC health authorities, most research universities, and many colleges.
About Us
We are British Columbia’s health research agency. We are working towards a future where BC is recognized worldwide for its vibrant, coherent, inclusive and globally competitive health research system, which improves the health of British Columbians, the health system and the economy. Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and Indigenous reconciliation and self-determination continues to guide us.
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
Clinical Trials Training Programs (CTTP)
Michael Smith Health Research BC partners with the clinical trials training programs (CTTP) to help increase clinical trials training, expertise and capacity in BC and across Canada.
Health Research BC-Mitacs Industry-Based Program
Through a partnership with Mitacs, the program provides graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with a placement at a life sciences company in order to gain business skills within the sector.
Reach Program
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.
Convening & Collaborating (C2) Program
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.
Applications are now open for:
Latest News
Knowledge Translation
2024 Convening & Collaborating (C2) and Reach competitions: Applications open with added priority areas
4 April 2024
Michael Smith Health Research BC is pleased to open the 2024 Convening & Collaborating (C2) and Reach competitions today, with additional funding to address priority health challenges.
Knowledge Translation
KT Connects 2024: Open conversations about open science
20 March 2024
Open science is a movement to make scientific processes and practices, including research methods and outputs, more accessible and transparent.
Join our 2024 KT Connects webinar series as we explore the potential impact on health research.News
Library shares experiences of kids with brain-based disabilities
14 March 2024
If our health system is evidence-based, how do we include knowledge from kids with brain-based developmental disabilities? Two organizations join to create a library of lived experiences.