Closed – Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 5, 2025; Full Application due October 8, 2025.
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), in partnership with the BC Women ‘s Hospital + Health Centre Foundation, is pleased to announce the inaugural 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.
Closed – Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 5, 2025; Full Application due October 8, 2025.
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.
Closed – The 2025 deadline closed on May 16, 2025.
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.
Closed – The 2025 deadline closed on May 16, 2025.
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
OPEN – Deadline: 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.
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Deadline | Funder & Link | Brief Description |
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April 20, 2026 | CIHR-IHDCYH Operating Grant: New Investigator | Support for new investigators (also referred to by CIHR as ECRs) for research that has the potential for significant impact on children's health outcomes. $100K/year for up to 3 years (6 awards available). |
April 28, 2026 | CIHR Team Grant: Healthy Youth (Registration) | To support youth-engaged research teams to generate evidence for at least 2 of the 6 priorities of Canada's Youth Policy with the ultimate goal of improving youth health & well-being. $300K/year for up to 5 years (total $1.5M/grant; 7 grants available). Full application due June 16, 2026. |
May 20, 2026 | To unite interdisciplinary research teams to advance the understanding of the risks & development of late & long-term toxicities associated with cancer treatments, as well as strategies to improve survivorship care post-treatment. $400K/year for 5 years (total $2M/grant; 9 awards available). Registration due Feb 24, 2026. | |
June 3, 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). Full application deadline July 23, 2026. | |
June 16, 2026 | To advance scientific excellence & foster diversity in Canada’s research ecosystem. Two-phase program to support trainees from underrepresented groups aiming to launch an independent research career in Canada. $90K/year for up to 3 years (Phase 1) & $120K/year for up to 4 years (Phase 2). 50 awards available. 15 Funding pools including Sex, Gender & Health. | |
June 16, 2026 | To support youth-engaged research teams to generate evidence for at least 2 of the 6 priorities of Canada's Youth Policy with the ultimate goal of improving youth health & well-being. $300K/year for up to 5 years (total $1.5M/grant; 7 grants available). Registration required by April 28 2026. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Fall 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. | |
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. | |
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
