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ICRH Strategic Plan 2002-2003 [ PDF | Help ]
Canada has a rich history of research excellence in the circulatory and respiratory sciences. The Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health will build on this foundation by engaging stakeholders and partners in the creation of a national, integrative agenda for circulatory and respiratory health research, training and knowledge translation. The potency of the research community for individual investigators and for teams interacting sits as a major focus for value addition to discovery and to research applications and evaluation. The Strategic Plan presents the framework and innovative strategies that ICRH will use to achieve this fundamental goal in the coming years.
The mission of the ICRH is to support research into the causes, mechanisms, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation for a wide range of conditions associated with the heart, lung, brain (stroke), blood vessels, blood, critical and intensive care, and sleep.
The vision of the ICRH is to achieve international leadership by fostering an environment of openness, excitement, energy, commitment and excellence in highly ethical partnered initiatives focused on research, research training, and research translation in the circulatory and respiratory sciences, for the betterment of the health of Canadians.
As noted in this planning document, circulatory and respiratory diseases extract a huge toll of death and disability worldwide. No country, society, culture, or ethnic population escapes the complex and burdensome range of cardiac, vascular, pulmonary, and hematological conditions. All age groups and both sexes face circulatory and respiratory challenges, beginning with developmental disease, and spanning to old age. The relationship between a person’s genetic and environmental milieu, has emerged as a framework for major research thrusts. Models of preventive and care programs also beg for this critical assessment. ICRH has organized its Strategic Plan according to five enabling strategies, in alignment with the Planning, Reporting and Accountability Structure (PRAS), the performance measurement framework for CIHR and its Institutes. ICRH has designed key goals and actions to address these five areas:
ICRH will promote research that reflects the emerging health priorities of Canadian citizens and responds to the requirements of health policy decision-makers. ICRH will promote multi- and interdisciplinary collaborative research as a means to solving problems that are intractable to traditional unidisciplinary approaches. ICRH will continue to create synergistic, dynamic partnerships with the voluntary, private and governmental sectors, including both federal and provincial organizations and other research partners in areas of mutual interest and benefit to the community. These partnerships will span the spectrum of research themes, including basic, clinical, health systems and services, and research respecting populations, embracing quantitative sciences, diverse disciplines, all geographical regions and sectors.
ICRH has identified a number of priority research areas and themes for 2002-03. The themes will vary from year to year and where desirable, we will seek to align with other CIHR Institutes and partner priorities. At this time, ICRH has identified the following priorities:
Creating a Research Agenda - ICRH will facilitate the formation of research agendas for priority areas related to circulatory and respiratory health through New Frontiers Program workshop grants. ICRH will also provide additional support to ongoing groups to further their objectives and be successful in the open and strategic competitions.
Training and Career Development - ICRH will build capacity in circulatory and respiratory health research through Strategic Training Program grants, Institutional Establishment grants and Personnel and New Investigator awards.
Strategic Initiatives - ICRH will support multidisciplinary teams through New Emerging Team (NET) grants for research concerning:
The ICRH is challenged by special circumstances: 1) the massive burden of illness, 2) the range of conditions within its mandate, 3) the traditional unidisciplinary, independent approach to and support of research, 4) the need for coherent and well-managed databases, 5) the rapidity of changing technologies and tools, and 6) the need to link well validated research to practice. While in many instances not unique challenges, these issues are of great pertinence to ICRH's mission.
CIHR - Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Melanie Larson, BA
Administrator
Tel : (604) 806-8934
Fax : (604) 806-8935
mlarson@mrl.ubc.ca
