COVID-19 Research Funding Updates – Women's Health Research Institute

WHRI

COVID-19 Research Funding Updates - Updated - April 30, 2021

Dear WHRI Members,

Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a number of funding agencies have updated their deadlines and funding opportunities. Please see the links below for latest news, COVID-19 funding opportunities, latest updates for deadlines and official statements from funding agencies regarding grant programs. For an updated list of upcoming grant opportunities click on Upcoming Grant file.

If you have any questions regarding deadline changes, need for assistance with an upcoming grant competition, contact Eric Lussier (eric.ducharmelussier@cw.bc.ca).

COVID-19 FUNDING IMPACT NEWS

Changes to the BC Clinical Research Rapid Response Ethical Review Process for COVID-19

BC Clinical Research has changed rules for obtaining rapid response ethical review. Previously instated rapid response ethical review for COVID-19 clinical research will only apply to studies that have the potential to immediately impact the course of the pandemic and/or the lives of COVID-19 patients. For more details, please visit researchethicsbc.ca.

Past COVID-19 News

COVID-19 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

CEPI –Broadly Protective Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 Variants (BPCoV2) –Open 4/1-5/31 (Full)
International Development Research Centre – The Trans-Atlantic Platform Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World (RRR) – 6/14 (Full)
CEPI – Broadly protective Betacoronavirus (BPBC) Vaccine – Open 4/1-10/1 (Full)
IN-PART – Seeking research, innovation & technology to address the spread of COVID-19 – Rolling (Full)

For full list of deadline changes and available funding, click here

OFFICIAL STATEMENT & Resources

For the latest updates and official statements from Funding Agencies regarding COVID-19 and disruptions to programs

BC Academic Health Science Network (BC AHSN)

Tri-Agency

Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)

Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)

Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health

Canadian Foundation for Women’s Health

Canadian Cancer Society

Canadian Cancer Society

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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