Health Research Funding Opportunities for Colleges & Institutes within CIHR

1. What are the opportunities for Colleges and Institutes within CIHR?Mark Bisbymbisby@cihr.ca

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Budget History(total appropriations, including NCEs and CRCs) CIHR MRC

7. Estimated Federal Support for Health Research in Canada 2002($M) CHSRF NCE Genome Canada CRC Indirect Costs CFI CIHR MRC

8. Projected Investment of CIHR’s 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 Maintenance $40M $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.

9. CIHR: more than a granting agency • Supports excellence in all areas of health research • Identifies priorities for research investment, based on health needs and scientific opportunity: with partners seeks a national health research agenda • Accelerates translation of research into action: products, services, health, and healthcare.

10. Strategic Research Initiatives Priority areas chosen by Institutes Requests for application CIHR Supports • Investigator-initiated research proposals • Any area of health research • Open competition

11. $139M $388M $11M $201M Grants and Awards Budgets, MRC 1997-98 & CIHR 2002-03 Strategic $215M Open

12. Integrate the various disciplines of the health research spectrum, including life sciences, natural and social sciences,engineering, mathematics and the humanities. Improve the health status of vulnerable populations. Strengthen health research and the health system in the genomics era. CIHR’s Strategic Outlook Build Canada’s international leadership through national excellence in health research.

13. CIHR….Transforming the Health Research Landscape Strategic Outlook Existing and innovative programs Institute-sponsored research initiatives Cross-cutting strategic initiatives

14. 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 People’s 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

15. CANADIAN AGRI-FOOD RESEARCH COUNCIL CONSEIL DE RECHERCHES AGRO-ALIMENTAIRES DU CANADA Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Conseil de recherche en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada Food and Water Safety Partnership

16. 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

17. CIHR….Transforming the Health Research Landscape Strategic Outlook Existing and innovative programs Institute-sponsored research initiatives Cross-cutting strategic initiatives

18. 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 Cross-Cutting CIHR Strategic Initiatives, under development

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

20. 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……..

21. 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 )

22. CIHR and the innovation pipeline Open grants CIHR/Rx&D CIHR/SME Clinical trials Spin-off companies Invention Proof of Principle Venture capital CIHR/IRAP Intellectual Property Management End-user IDEA Discovery Early-stage Late-stage

23. 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

24. 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. Community Alliances for Health Research (CAHRs): The 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.

25. 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. 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.

26. 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

27. 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.”

28. 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 CIHR’s Research Planning and Priorities Committee.