OPEN – The 2024 CW DHR Accelerator Grant (a total of $450,000) 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 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 2024 competition CLOSED on October 9, 2024.
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.
The 2024 competition CLOSED on June 26, 2024.
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 2024 competition CLOSED on June 26, 2024.
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.
The 2024 competition CLOSED on February 13, 2024.
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 March 1, 2023.
The Perinatal Research IMaging Evaluation (PRIME) Centre Awards supports studies in women’s
and/or newborn health research to be carried out, in whole or in part, within the PRIME Centre (i.e.,
making use of the equipment, facility features and personnel support available).
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 | FUNDING OPPORTUNITY | DESCRIPTION |
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). | |
November 19, 2024 | Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar and Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program (LOI) | The Scholar and HP-I Programs provide salary support to help ECRs & health professionals in BC build their research programs, train the next generation of scientists, & make significant contributions to their fields. ECRs dedicate 75% of their time to health research activities. Health professionals (including a Physician Stream) dedicate 50% of their time to health research activities. Both programs provide a maximum of $90K/year for up to 5 years. Full applications due on January 23, 2025. |
December 1, 2024 | To help develop research skills & assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of achievement in undergraduate & early graduate studies. $27K for 1 year. | |
December 3, 2024 | To catalyze discovery in digital health research relevant to CIHR-IMHA’s broad mandate areas. For ECRs, MCRs & Indigenous Health Research proposals. $100K for up to 1 year; 4 grants available. | |
December 10, 2024 | To support research teams in areas of (i) Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) Youth Health; Two-Spirit (2S), (ii) Trans, Non-binary and/or other Gender Diverse Youth Health or (iii) Reducing Social Inequalities in Health among Canada’s Youth. Up to $300K/year for 5 years. Full application due February 4, 2025. | |
December 12, 2024 | Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee 2025 (LOI) | Supports health researchers in the training phase of their careers to contribute to the success of BC’s health research landscape. Salary support for PDFs or health professional researchers. $60K/year for up to 3 years. Full application due February 13, 2025. |
December 12, 2024 | To mobilize, examine & synthesize social sciences & humanities research on Envisioning Governance Systems that Work. Themes: The Changing Nature of Security & Conflict, The Arts Transformed, & Truth Under Fire in a Postfact World. $30K for 1 year. | |
December 15, 2024 | Short-term & timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. $7 to $25K for 1 year. | |
December 20, 2024 | Michael Smith Health Research BC- Mitacs Accelerate & Elevate industry programs | Supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across BC to gain experience working within BC’s life sciences sector. $90-129K over up to 24 months. |
January 15, 2025 | Opportunities for undergraduate students to consider graduate studies or a research career by providing research work experience. $6K plus host institution contribution. UBC information here. | |
January 17, 2025 | Veterans Affairs Canada:Review of novel, emerging and alternative mental health interventions for women Veterans | To a conduct a literature review exploring which novel, emerging, or adjunct mental health interventions are most promising in their capacity to address women Veterans’ mental health needs. $70K for 1 year. |
January 23, 2025 | Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar and Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program | The Scholar and HP-I Programs provide salary support to help ECRs & health professionals in BC build their research programs, train the next generation of scientists, & make significant contributions to their fields. ECRs dedicate 75% of their time to health research activities. Health professionals (including a Physician Stream) dedicate 50% of their time to health research activities. Both programs provide a maximum of $90K/year for up to 5 years. An LOI is due on November 19, 2024. |
Jan-Dec, 2024 (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. | |
February 1, 2025 | Support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities. $7K to 25K over 1 year. | |
February 2, 2025 | To support research in its initial stages & enable the development of new research questions, experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches or ideas. For emerging & established scholars. $7K to 75K for up to 2 years. | |
February 4, 2025 | To support research teams in areas of (i) Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) Youth Health; Two-Spirit (2S), (ii) Trans, Non-binary and/or other Gender Diverse Youth Health or (iii) Reducing Social Inequalities in Health among Canada’s Youth. Up to $300K/year for 5 years. Registration required by December 10, 2024. | |
February 5, 2025 | A flagship CIHR funding program. Designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems or health outcomes. Full application due March 5, 2025. | |
February 10, 2025 | These grants provide support for 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 $20K - these funds help applicants prepare the Stage 2 application. Stage 2 (by invitation only): up to $2.5 million. | |
February 13, 2025 | Supports health researchers in the training phase of their careers to contribute to the success of BC’s health research landscape. Salary support for PDFs or health professional researchers. $60K/year for up to 3 years. An LOI is required by December 12, 2024. | |
February 20, 2025 | Research on research, also known as metaresearch, is the application of rigorous methods & analysis to the practice of research itself—its methods, standards and evaluation. Applications dealing with metaresearch in any disciplinary context are invited. Up to $200K for 3 years. | |
March 5, 2025 | A flagship CIHR funding program. Designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems or health outcomes. A registration is required by February 5, 2025. | |
March 15, 2025 | Short-term & timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. $7 to $25K for 1 year. | |
April 1, 2025 | Designed to build on & sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in all research areas of the social sciences & humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers & their activities funded partially or entirely by SSHRC. $50K or $100K. | |
May 1, 2025 | Support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities. $7K to 25K over 1 year. | |
May, 2025 (TBA) | MSHRBC Convening & Collaborating Program | Promotes knowledge exchange and meaningful collaboration by supporting researchers, trainees & research users to develop a research agenda, identify key research practice priorities or evaluate a peer support initiative. $20K for 12 months. |
May, 2025 (TBA) | MSHRBC Reach Program | Promotes KT activities by supporting researchers & research users in disseminating research evidence through co-developing events, activities or tools to “extend the reach” of their work. $20K for 12-months. |
August 1, 2025 | Support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities. $7K to 25K over 1 year. | |
September 4, 2025 | LOI now closed. |
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
The CIHR-Institute of Health Services and Policy Research is hosting an information session to provide interested applicants with information on the requirements of the Health System
