Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH)
Research
Advancing a coherent research agenda for population and public health (PPH) in Canada
CIHR-IPPH actively supports research that seeks to understand and address the fundamental determinants of human health, especially the interaction of physical and social environments with genetic predispositions, over the life-course, at both individual and community levels, in whole societies. In its five-year Strategic Plan developed under the guidance of its Advisory Board and including the results of national consultations, the Institute has identified the following strategic research priorities:
- Capacity for cutting-edge and relevant PPH research, and for its use by decision-makers - supporting New Programs, Centres and Networks, to reduce regional disparities in PPH training, research and research application
- Understanding and addressing the policy and program impacts of physical and social environments on health over the life course
- Analyzing and Reducing Health Disparities - understanding and addressing the many possible origins of health disparities, including differences in the biological, socio-economic, physical, and cultural characteristics of populations and their environments, as affected by local policies and programs that impact on health.
- Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Disease in Human Populations - balancing the new knowledge emerging from genomic research by equally sophisticated assessments of ever-changing environmental exposures, in order to elucidate the full causal pathways leading to disease and premature death.
- Global Health - improving Canada's ability to investigate and intervene on those underlying forces that challenge global health, by enhancing, in a sustainable manner, the capacity of national and international researchers and research users to collaboratively develop and apply global health knowledge for evidence-based public health practice.
