Benefits
Health research is grounded in partnerships, starting from the researchers themselves, who seldom work in isolation. Partnerships between organizations are increasingly the way that health research stakeholders do business, and they are a key to
CIHR's success in achieving its vision for the future. In the past five years,
CIHR has developed strategic partnerships with a range of organizations including, other federal government department and agencies, provincial research funding agencies, and relevant provincial and territorial departments, health charities, professional associations, other non-governmental organizations and industry.
CIHR's partners help fund research, set research priorities, share best practices in research and its peer review, build research capacity, leverage knowledge translation efforts and help make more effective use of resources for research.