The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's agency for health research. Its mandate is to create and translate new knowledge to help ensure improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products and a strengthened Canadian health care system.
CIHR, which is composed of 13 Institutes, provides leadership and support to more than 10,000 researchers and trainees in every province of Canada. Through CIHR, the Government of Canada is supporting health research that addresses society's highest-priority health issues and contributing to economic growth and prosperity. CIHR is taking a problem- and outcome-based approach, linking researchers across all disciplines, from the social sciences to biomedical sciences, to informatics and engineering. Through its Institutes, CIHR is bringing health researchers together across disciplinary and geographic boundaries to address health research problems of importance to Canadians.
CIHR is also building partnerships, between researchers and the users of research in the health care system and in the private sector to ensure that research findings are applied where they are needed. CIHR is also developing innovative approaches to training the next generation of researchers, facilitating the development of multidisciplinary teams of young researchers.
CIHR ensures that the Government of Canada's health research investments reflect Canadian priorities by setting a strategic research agenda in partnership with the research community, voluntary sector organizations and policy makers.
CIHR's 13 Institutes
Aboriginal Peoples' Health (CIHR-IAPH)
Aging (CIHR-IA)
Cancer Research (CIHR-ICR)
Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH)
Gender and Health (CIHR-IGH)
Genetics (CIHR-IG)
Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR)
Human Development, Child and Youth Health (CIHR-IHDCYH)
Infection and Immunity (CIHR-III)
Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA)
Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA)
Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (CIHR-INMD)
Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH)
President's Message
CIHR Update and Overview
CIHR: Already Making a Difference
Quality, Accessibility and Costs of Care
Making hospital care safer
Understanding patterns of prescription drug spending
A Canadian prescription drug atlas
Wrestling with rising drug prices
Reducing overcrowding in the emergency room
Cancer
New therapies for brain tumours
Early detection of breast cancer
Hereditary colon cancer
Improving treatment of prostate cancer
Measuring the effects of cancer-fighting drugs
Proteomics
Mapping life-forming instructions
Cardiac Care
Preventing a heart attack: Lifestyle and risk
Surviving a heart attack: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) works
Averting subsequent heart attacks
Improving emergency room care
Infectious Diseases
Containing C. difficile infection in hospitals
C. difficile outside the hospital
Reducing drug resistance in HIV patients
Fighting the most dreaded viruses
Mental Health and Addiction
Teens and smoking
Psychiatric illness in the prison population
Improving mental health services in rural areas
Over-prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to seniors
Commercializing Research Discoveries
A new approach to fighting disease
Preventing mad cow disease and detecting other brain diseases
Discovering drugs to treat human genetic diseases
Fighting cancer
Providing Stewardship and Accountability
Institutes of Excellence
The Power of Volunteers
Management Discussion and Analysis
Auditor's Report and Financial Statements
