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The Clinical Research Initiative is designated as one of CIHR's top strategic priorities. Since 2001, CIHR has led a process of national consultation, needs identification, and partnership building. There is a widespread consensus that clinical research has not kept pace with the advances in biomedical research and that there is an increasing gap between basic discoveries and their application to the understanding, treatment and prevention of human disease. Through the CRI, plans have been formulated for training and sustaining the next generation of clinician-researchers, creating nationally networked clinical research centres, developing a solid ethical and regulatory clinical research environment, and for increasing clinical research projects and translation. CIHR is now ready to move forward with the CRI as one of its top strategic priorities.
Within ten years, Canada will become the envy of the world for the excellence of its clinical research enterprise, the expertise and productivity of its clinical research community, and the efficiency with which knowledge derived from clinical research is translated into innovative products, services, and policies.
CIHR will strengthen Clinical Research in Canada in order to accelerate the translation of clinical research discoveries into improved and cost-effective approaches to maintaining health and treating illness, and to provide evidence for sound health policies and an efficient health care system. CIHR will increase its investments in clinician-researchers, clinical research resources, and the operating costs of clinical research, and will review its existing investments to ensure they are most effectively deployed in support of its mission.
A strong Clinical Research program in Canada can take advantage of our unique health care system and its infrastructure, and fast track translational success and determine the best practices in health delivery. This in turn will help to turn innovation into application. People world-wide will eventually benefit from Canada's increased clinical research capacity. Canadians themselves will be the immediate beneficiaries with improved health, a strengthened and sustained health care system and increased prosperity.
