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The spirit of partnerships is a fundamental principle at CIHR. Like all CIHR Institutes, IA actively seeks out opportunities to work with other agencies with an interest in Aging research. IA develops innovative partnerships across the full range of our activities from setting research priorities, through funding of research, and finally, to translating the resulting knowledge into action.
IA partnerships include both financial and non-financial contributions. Non-financial contributions may include access to professional networks, areas of expertise, shared tools and documentation and in-kind resources. Partner organizations have included other CIHR Institutes, provincial, federal and international departments and agencies, hospitals, voluntary health organizations, seniors' organizations and industry. Whatever the organization and whatever the contribution, IA partnerships are true collaborations - driven by shared goals and a desire to improve health and quality of life for older Canadians.
IA's partnership approach has produced outstanding multidisciplinary projects such as Cognitive Impairment in Aging Partnership that will result in a national strategy for Canada to increase and promote research into Alzheimer Disease and other dementia.
IA partnership activities also reach across borders. In response to the aging demographics on a global scale, IA is collaborating with the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health to enhance the scope of research training in aging. An initial activity under the CIHR-IA and NIH-NIA collaboration is the NIH-NIA/CIHR-IA: Post Doctoral Fellowship Program for Training in Research on Aging in Canada.
This projects is and excellent example of the role of CIHR Institutes in changing the nature of collaborative research through partnership. More examples of successful IA initiatives are included in our IA Showcase.
For more information on partnering with the Institute of Aging, please contact us.
