Institute of Gender and Health (Lead)
Institute of Population and Public Health (co-lead)
Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health
Institute of Aging
Institute of Cancer Research
Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Institute of Genetics*
Institute of Health Services and Policy Research
Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health
Institute of Infection and Immunity
Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction*
Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis*
CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative
CIHR Global Health Research Initiative
CIHR Ethics Office
CIHR Knowledge Translation (KT) Branch
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Health Canada
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Public Health Agency of Canada**
National Homelessness Initiative
Citizenship and Immigration Canada**
are pleased to announce the results for the Reducing Health Disparities and Promoting Equity for Vulnerable Populations - Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grants competition.
Part of CIHR's mandate is to harness research to improve the health status of vulnerable populations. The goal of the Reducing Health Disparities Initiative is to generate outstanding research and build excellent research capacity to document, analyze, and contribute to reducing health disparities.
Over the last three years, the Reducing Health Disparities Initiative launched three Requests for Applications (RFA's). The first two RFA's attracted close to 100 applications across the country and 24 interdisciplinary research teams were funded for one year. This third RFA, offering multi-year funding through Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Grants, received an even greater response from the research community (73 letters of intent).
The purpose of the Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) grant program is to provide support for new or existing groups conducting multi-disciplinary research on themes that align with this strategic initiative. The grants will enable teams to build capacity and add expertise to their core capacities and develop strategies for knowledge translation. It is expected that this targeted investment will lead to understanding and addressing health disparities, and improving the health status of vulnerable populations.
In approving the results of the Reducing Health Disparities - Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grant program, the partners took into account the need to provide the highest level of funding, considering the constraints on budgets and the balance between size of grant and number of grants awarded.
A total of 62 researchers who submitted Letters of Intent were invited to submit full applications in November 2005. The 58 applications received were peer reviewed by the interdisciplinary and cross-thematic "Health Disparities" A and B committees (HDA and HDB), resulting in 20 applications being approved for funding (success rate of 34%). Funding of these grants was made possible by reducing the recommended budgets of the funded proposals by an average 18%.
Click on the PDF or HTML file in the table below to view the list of applications that have been approved for funding through this competition.
| Strategic Initiative | Applications Received | Applications Approved | Success Rate (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICE Grant - Reducing Health Disparities and Promoting Equity for Vulnerable Populations [ HTML | PDF (100 KB) | Help ] | 58 | 20 | 34% |
For further information about this competition, please contact:
Susan Birbeck
Program Delivery Coordinator
Knowledge Creation Programs Branch
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Telephone: (613) 954-1970
Fax: (613) 954-1800
Email: sbirbeck@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
For further information on this initiative, please contact:
Ximena Ramos Salas
Project Manager
Institute of Gender and Health
Reducing Health Disparities Initiative
Telephone: (780) 492-2425
Fax: (780) 492-3689
Email: ximena@cihr.ualberta.ca
* Partner on the Reducing Health Disparities Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Grant Program
** Partner on the Reducing Health Disparities Initiative
