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Description:The purpose of the Health Policy Research Program (HPRP) is to increase the quantity of academic research that is directly relevant to current and future health policy issues. Policies and practices in the private, voluntary, and public sectors at every jurisdictional level and in diverse fields (for example, agriculture, immigration, urban planning, pollution control) have impacts on the health of Canadians and the performance of Canada's health care and public health systems. Decisions underlying these policies and practices respond to health, health system performance, economic, legal, ecological and other concerns. Such 'decision-making that affects health' strongly affects the public good and creates trade-offs – intentionally or not – among health, health care access, and other facets of quality of life of Canadians. To enable decision-makers to take the health-related impacts
of their actions into account and to promote informed debate
and public understanding of health policy issues, reliable
evidence must be generated and made widely accessible. In
many areas the academic literature is either sparse or not
easily applied to policy options or practices of interest
to decision-makers or the public. To increase the quantity
of academic research that is directly relevant to current
and future health policy issues, the HPRP funds academic research
on topics corresponding to these gaps in the literature. The objectives of the program are to:
Current Requests for Applications for research funding Guide to research project funding Guide to workshop, seminar and conference funding Treasury Board Guidelines for Government Travel Status of Closed Requests for Applications Executive Summaries of research results
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