OPEN – Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 4, 2026; Full Application due October 7, 2026.
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), in partnership with the BC Women ‘s Hospital + Health Centre Foundation, is pleased to announce the 2026 WHRI Leveling Up: Women’s and Newborn Health Research Action Grant competition to support previously pilot-tested women’s and newborn’s health research projects involving a) screening or diagnostic tools; or b) treatment interventions.
OPEN – Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 4, 2026; Full Application due October 7, 2026.
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), in partnership with the BC Women ‘s Hospital + Health Centre Foundation, is pleased to announce a Catalyst Grant competition for the advancement of knowledge in women’s health.
Open – Spring deadline is May 29, 2026 (5 grants), for travel between January 1, 2026 and June 30, 2026
Fall deadline is November 27, 2026 (5 grants), for travel between July 1, 2026 and Dec 31, 2026.
The WHRI has created a Trainee Travel Grant intended to support full-time research trainees for travel to national or international meetings. There are 10 grants available each year, valued at up to $1000 each. These grants will be offered twice a year (in May and November), with 5 grants offered at each timepoint.
The 2026 competition closed on May 22, 2026.
In 2020, the WHRI launched the Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women’s Health, a funding opportunity specific to our trainee community. This award is intended to provide salary support to WHRI-affiliated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are engaged in women’s and/or newborn health research and who do not currently hold major competitive salary awards.
The 2026 competition closed on May 22, 2026.
Thanks to an annual endowment by Dr. Monica K. Li and family to the BC Women’s Health Foundation, the WHRI has established the Dr. Monica K. Li and Family Undergraduate Medical Student Research Award in Women’s Health, a funding opportunity specific to our undergraduate medical student trainee community. This award is intended to provide support to WHRI-affiliated undergraduate medical students who identify as a woman from racial/ethnic minority groups to pursue research in women’s and/or newborn health.
Closed – The 2024 CW DHR Accelerator Grant closed on December 6, 2024.
This grant is intended to support digital health innovations that will benefit women, children and families. This funding opportunity aims to accelerate digital health solutions towards clinical or community implementation by supporting researchers to develop prototype solutions, test feasibility in the operational context, assemble the required partnerships and teams, develop clinical and/or operational evidence, and create a plan for sustainment and scale-up.
Learn more: Important dates and Proposals
The 2026 competition closed on February 12, 2026.
The WHRI Graduate Student Achievement Award seeks to recognize excellence amongst graduate students who are near completion or have completed their research project.
The 2023 competition closed on September 1, 2023.
The Sue Harris Family Practice Research Grant supports research that contributes to women’s (cis and trans-inclusive) health within the discipline of family practice. The funding is intended to support new researchers (family practice residents and/or practitioners) to develop and carry out a pilot research project.
Rolling – for Recipients of the Sue Harris Grant only.
AND/OR
The 2026 competition closed on May 1, 2026.
Perinatal Research IMaging Evaluation (PRIME) Centre Research Award competition is available to researchers using PRIME Centre facilities in their work, supporting advances in women’s, fetal and neonatal health. For 2026, one award will be given at $30,000.
Deadline | Funder & Link | Brief Description |
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July 7, 2026 | To enhance the delivery of advanced training & mentorship to cultivate future leaders who will drive innovation & transformation in healthcare through AI. $100K; 1 year. | |
July 21, 2026 | TRANSCAN-4 JTC 2026 in Translational Research on | To support transnational teams to develop innovative, personalised approaches for cancer diagnosis, patient stratification, & treatment, grounded in a deeper mechanistic understanding of metabolic alterations in cancer. $150K/year for 3 years (total $450K/grant; 3 available). Deadline = Pre-Proposals to TRANSCAN-4 JCS. Full application deadline = Jan 13, 2027. |
July 23, 2026 | Part of the Reimagine Acute Care initiative, focused on areas under ICRH's mandate: the heart; brain (stroke); lung; blood & blood vessels; sleep & critical care. Applications must focus on improving the care continuum by connecting pre-acute, acute and post-acute care phases. Funding pools include "cross disease" & "AI and Computer Science" $200K for 1 year (23 awards available). Registration due June 3, 2026. | |
August 4, 2026 | To support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research Partnerships program. Events: $10-$25K over 1 year; Outreach activities: $10-$50k over 1 year. | |
August (TBA) | The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed & conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, &/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches. Registration due early-mid August; Full application due early-mid September. | |
September 2, 2026 | CIHR Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing CDN Databases and Cohorts 2026 (Registration) | To support projects that use data from existing Canadian- based cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, & data platforms, to advance knowledge in human development, child &/or youth health with the goal to improve patient, population, & system outcomes. $75K/year for up to 1 year (15 grants available). Full application due September 22, 2026. |
September 15, 2026 | CIHR-IHDCYH Operating Grant: ECRs in Human Development, Child and Youth Health (Registration) | To build research capacity, generate new knowledge, & support knowledge mobilization in human development, child & youth health by funding operating grants to early career researchers. $50K/year for up to 3 years ($150K/grant total; 13 available). Full application due October 20, 2026. |
September 22, 2026 | To support projects that use data from existing Canadian- based cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, & data platforms, to advance knowledge in human development, child &/or youth health with the goal to improve patient, population, & system outcomes. $75K/year for up to 1 year (15 grants available). Registration due September 2, 2026. | |
September 22, 2026 | CIHR Operating Grant: Evaluating | To support evaluations of established community-based programs &/or social innovations, to generate co-created & actionable evidence to strengthen community health systems & enhance the health and overall well-being of older persons living in the community. $150K/year for up 2 years (total of $300K/grant; 11 available). |
September 24, 2026 (Registration) | To establish a national evidence platform focused on the review of evidence on youth mental health interventions, programs & practices, relevant to the Canadian context. $2.45M/year for up to 3 years ($7/35M/grant, 1 available). Full application deadline = Oct 8, 2026. | |
September 2026 (TBA) | The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed & conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, &/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches. Registration due early-mid August; Full application due early-mid September. | |
Fall 2026 (TBA) | Provides support for highly qualified applicants in all areas of health research at the postdoctoral degree stage to add to their experience by engaging in health research either in Canada or abroad. $70K/year for 2 years. | |
September 30, 2026 | To support high-impact research that is relevant to northern & rural health challenges and leads to measurable improvements in care for patients or communities served by Northern Health. Projects must demonstrate real-world impact within 24 months. $100K; 24 months. Full application deadline = February 1, 2026. | |
October 8, 2026 | To establish a national evidence platform focused on the review of evidence on youth mental health interventions, programs & practices, relevant to the Canadian context. $2.45M/year for up to 3 years ($7/35M/grant, 1 available). Registration due Sept 24, 2026. | |
October 20, 2026 | To build research capacity, generate new knowledge, & support knowledge mobilization in human development, child & youth health by funding operating grants to early career researchers. $50K/year for up to 3 years ($150K/grant total; 13 available). Registration due September 15, 2026. | |
October 22, 2026 (Registration) | To generate evidence on impact & scalability of interventions that promote mental health in youth. $200K/year for 3 years (total $600K/grant; 10 available). Full application deadline = Nov 5, 2026. | |
October 22, 2026 | Team Grant - GACD 2026: NCD Multi Sectors (Implementation Science to Tackle Non-Communicable | This funding opportunity is part of the 11th call for applications of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) to fund implementation research focused on strategies leveraging opportunities with & beyond the healthcare system to tackle chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries or underserved populations, including Indigenous populations in high-income countries. $200K/year for 5 years (total $1M/grant; 3 available). Stage 1 application was due by June 26, 2026. |
October 2026 (TBA) | To foster the creation & strengthening of research partnerships that reinforce trust & mutual understanding between researchers, knowledge users, Knowledge Holders, communities,& health and community organizations (including public health). To advance co-produced research & co-produced KM activities, leading to more relevant & applicable knowledge that is positioned for implementation & impact. $125K/grant (1 year); >30 available. | |
October 29, 2026 | To support new & existing formal partnerships over 4-7 years to advance research, research training or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences & humanities. Stage 1: up to $30K - these funds help applicants prepare the Stage 2 application. Stage 2 (by invitation only): up to $2.5 million. | |
November 2, 2026 | To support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research Partnerships program. Events: $10-$25K over 1 year; Outreach activities: $10-$50k over 1 year. | |
November 5, 2026 | To generate evidence on impact & scalability of interventions that promote mental health in youth. $200K/year for 3 years (total $600K/grant; 10 available). Registration due Oct 22, 2026. | |
November 2026 (TBA) | Supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines & broad fields of health, natural sciences & engineering, & social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary & multidisciplinary research. $40K/year for 3 years. | |
January 13, 2026 | TRANSCAN-4 JTC 2026 in Translational Research on | To support transnational teams to develop innovative, personalised approaches for cancer diagnosis, patient stratification, & treatment, grounded in a deeper mechanistic understanding of metabolic alterations in cancer. $150K/year for 3 years (total $450K/grant; 3 available). A Pre-Proposals is due to TRANSCAN-4 JCS by July 21, 2026. |
February 1, 2026 | To support high-impact research that is relevant to northern & rural health challenges and leads to measurable improvements in care for patients or communities served by Northern Health. Projects must demonstrate real-world impact within 24 months. $100K; 24 months. LOI due on September 30, 2026. | |
Rolling | AthenaDAO is a decentralized collective that supports translational women’s health research & drug discovery. Funding ranges from $50-150K for 1-2 years (terms negotiated for each project). | |
Rolling | The Health Research BC-Mitacs industry-based program supports graduate students & postdocs to gain experience working within BC’s life sciences sector. Masters/PhD: Up to $90K for up to 24 months; Postdoc: Up to 129K for up to 24 months. | |
Rolling | Six awards of up to $10K each are available to support BC-based individuals to intern at a Canadian-based clinical trials unit. Internships can be in the form of in-person, virtual or hybrid engagements. Funding may be used for protected time or travel expenses related to in-person engagements. |
IHSPR and CIHR is hosting a webinar to provide interested applicants with information on the requirements of the “Health System Impact Fellowship” funding opportunity and
The CIHR-Institute of Gender & Health is hosting a webinar to provide interested applicants with information on the requirements of the National Women’s Health Research Initiative: Innovation
The CIHR-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health & Arthritis is hosting a webinar to provide interested applicants with information on the requirements of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Network
