CIHR Partners: Working Together for the Health of Canadians
CIHR currently has many established collaborations with voluntary, non-government and government organizations and industry. These collaborations serve to leverage access to networks, patient groups and efficient use of resources to achieve common objectives. Activities include health research funding, capacity building and commercialization. The following is a sample list of our current partners by sector.
Federal Departments/Agencies |
Provincial Departments/Agencies |
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Canadian Blood Services
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
- Canadian Institute for Health Information
- Canadian International Development Agency
- Department of National Defence
- Environment Canada
- Genome Canada
- Health Canada
- International Development Research Centre
- National Research Council
- National Secretariat on Homelessness
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- Statistics Canada
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- Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
- Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec
- Government of Saskatchewan (Innovation and Science Fund)
- Manitoba Health
- Medical Research Fund of New Brunswick
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (BC)
- Ministère de la santé et des services sociaux du Québec
- Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research
- Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
- Ontario Innovation Trust
- Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund
- PEI, through the Regional Partnerships Program
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Voluntary Organizations |
Industry |
- ALS Society of Canada
- Alzheimer Society of Canada
- The Arthritis Society
- Canadian Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Foundation
- Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
- Canadian Association of Medical Oncologists
- Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Canadian Digestive Health Foundation
- Canadian Fanconi Anemia Research Fund
- Canadian Hypertension Society
- Canadian Institute for Relief of Pain and Disability
- Canadian Lung Association
- Canadian Medical Association
- CNIB E.A. Baker Foundation
- Epilepsy Canada
- Fragile X Research Foundation of Canada
- Health Charities Council of Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- The Kidney Foundation of Canada
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada
- NeuroScience Canada
- Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation
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- Canada's research-based pharmaceutical companies (Rx&D)
- Canadian biotechnology companies
- National agri-food organizations
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International |
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (USA)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
- CNPq (Brazil)
- CONICET (Argentina)
- Human Frontier Science Program (France)
- Indian Council for Medical Research
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (France)
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (France)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Max Planck Institute (Germany)
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
- National Institute of Health of Mexico
- National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- The National Research Council (Italy)
- New Zealand Health Research Council
- Veterans Administration (U.S.)
- Wellcome Trust (U.K.)
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