Research Grant Opportunity: Transforming Health with Integrated Care – Implementation Science Teams

Posted on: June 28, 2022

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The Canadian Institutes for Health Research is issuing a call to support interdisciplinary research teams dedicated to understanding the implementation, evaluation, adaptation, and/or and spread/scale of transformative evidence-informed integrated care policies and interventions that encompass intersectoral collaborations within and/or beyond the formal health care delivery system.

Details and Deadline:

  • 12 teams across Canada will be funded.
  • Each grant is valued at $400,000/year for up to 5 years.
  • An information webinar is scheduled for July 13th, 2022 (Join live on Microsoft Teams from 11:00 – 12:30 pm PT) .
  • Anticipated competition timeline:
    • Full Application Deadline: November 15, 2022
    • Funding Start Date: April 1, 2023

If you're interested in this opportunity, the Research Department can help you build a team and develop your application. Please get in touch with Grant Facilitator Annie Moore (Isabel.moore@islandhealth.ca) to set up a meeting and share your ideas.

Further Information:​

For full details, please refer to the pre-announcement.

Implementation Science Teams must incorporate six core elements in their composition and approach:

  1. Include learning health systems, implementation science, patient-oriented research and knowledge mobilization strategies;
  2. Focus on developed or piloted evidence-informed integrated care policies and interventions (i.e., this funding opportunity does not support the development of new or pilot interventions);
  3. Involve medium to large-scale implementation (i.e., involving multiple partner organizations, at least two jurisdictions [e.g., municipalities, health regions, provinces, countries], primary, home and/or community care and other relevant sectors within and/or beyond health care);
  4. Encompass and/or develop interdisciplinary and multisectoral capacity;
  5. Have a clear plan for impact; and
  6. Led by a quadripartite leadership model that includes a researcher, decision maker, provider, and patient/family/caregiver/community member with lived/living experience.

Research Areas of Interest include:

  • Health services and policy

  • Rural, Remote and Northern Communities

  • Multi-Morbidity

  • Aging in the Right Place

  • Transforming Health and Well-Being for Children and Youth

  • Gender-Affirming Health

  • Integrated care models that improve outcomes of people who have diagnoses related to the musculoskeletal system (including myalgic encephalomyelitis), arthritis, skin and dental conditions

  • Genomics in Routine Care

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive Integrated Care.