Goals
The Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health (CIHR-IAPH) is pursuing ambitious goals to improve the health and well-being of aboriginal people in every part of Canada by stimulating aboriginal health research, creating new knowledge, forming research partnerships with organizations in Canada and abroad and respectfully involving aboriginal communities in every project undertaken.
The Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health (IAPH) was established in June 2000, along with the twelve other Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Its role is to lead a national advanced research agenda in the area of aboriginal health and promote innovative research that will serve to improve the health of aboriginal people in Canada.
Vision
CIHR-IAPH will strive to improve the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people by supporting innovative research programs based on scientific excellence and aboriginal community collaboration.
Mission
CIHR-IAPH will play a lead role in building research capacity in the First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, and will support partnerships and alliances between aboriginal communities and non-aboriginal health research organizations/institutes at the local, regional, national and international levels. CIHR-IAPH supports health research that respects aboriginal cultures, while generating new knowledge to improve the health and well being of aboriginal people.
Values
At all times, CIHR-IAPH is guided by the highest ethical and moral standards and its core set of values:
