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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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 produce research that responds Ministry of Health's questions (12 are outlined - see link). $50K for 1 year. Full applications are invited (deadline January 7, 2027). | |
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 | 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 29, 2026 | For collaborative knowledge mobilization activities that facilitate the design, production, & translation of research that is impactful & relevant for the people of BC. $20K for 12-18 months. | |
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 1, 2026 | To recognize researchers who have developed innovative advances with translational potential to impact women’s health globally. USD $25K. | |
November 1, 2026 | For transformative pediatric biomedical or clinical research focused on children from the prenatal period through age 18 in Canada. Areas on interested include prenatal substance exposure & early interventions. Grant requests must be between $500K & $3M, for 1-5 years. Full application due May 15, 2027. | |
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 10, 2026 | To support: planning activities, partnership development, dissemination events & activities that focus on the communication of health research evidence to the appropriate audiences. Funds are allocated through a partial randomization approach. Total amount ranges from $10-50K for 1 year (68 grants available). Pools include under-researched areas of women's health in Canada. | |
November 23, 2026 (UBC internal deadline was September 15, 2026) | 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. | |
December 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. | |
January, 2027 (TBA) | Notice of Upcoming Funding Opportunity: | To advance Indigenous-led, community-driven nursing research that supports culturally safe, anti-racist, & gender- responsive health systems for First Nations, Inuit, & Métis Peoples across the lifespan. $235K/year for 5 years (total $1.175M/award; 13 available). |
January 12, 2027 | Provides an embedded research opportunity within health system organizations for doctoral trainees ($50K; 1 year) & postdoctoral researchers ($155K; 2 years) studying health services & policy research. Webinar: November 4, 2026 (Register). | |
January 13, 2027 | 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. |
January 14, 2027 | Provides financial support to students enrolled in or who have applied to an eligible master's program in Canada that is relevant to specific CIHR priority research areas, including: Sex and gender science for health equity and Under-researched areas in women's health. $27K for 1 year. | |
February 1, 2027 | 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. | |
February 3, 2027 | 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. | |
March 3, 2027 | 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. | |
May 15, 2027 | For transformative pediatric biomedical or clinical research focused on children from the prenatal period through age 18 in Canada. Areas on interested include prenatal substance exposure & early interventions. Grant requests must be between $500K & $3M, for 1-5 years. LOI due Nov 1, 2026. | |
Rolling | AthenaBio 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). |
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
