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 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 | Funder & Link | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|
December 20, 2024 | 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 7, 2025 | For students, PDFs, ECRs and knowledge users to present their own research at national and international meetings, workshops, and/or conferences between April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. Awards range from $1.5-5K depending on the Institute/Initiative. | |
January 9, 2025 | Applicants must be a trainees enrolled at a Canadian University & engaged in research that aligns with the IGH mandate . This Summer Institute will take place in Toronto from May 26-30, 2025. Awards of approx. $2K to cover expenses. | |
January 10, 2025 | Empowering Next Generation Researchers in Perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) provides salary support for clinicians in doctoral programs ($30K/year for up to 3 years) or PDF programs ($50K/year for up to 2 years) and new clinician researchers ($40K/year for up to 4 years). | |
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 | To 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 USD for 1 year. |
January 23, 2025 | Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar & 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 was due on November 19, 2024. |
January 23, 2025 | Prizes will be awarded for completed research projects relevant to the IMHA Mandate in the following 6 pools: Indigenous Health Research, Open science, Research Impact, Team Science, Patient Engagement, Implementation Science. Prizes are in the form of supplemental grants of $25K. Full application due on February 19, 2025. | |
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 | CIHR Project Grant Spring 2025 (Registration) | 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 was required by December 12, 2024. | |
February 19, 2025 | Prizes will be awarded for completed research projects relevant to the IMHA Mandate in the following 6 pools: Indigenous Health Research, Open science, Research Impact, Team Science, Patient Engagement, Implementation Science. Prizes are in the form of supplemental grants of $25K. A registration is due on January 23, 2025. | |
February 20, 2025 | SSHRC, CIHR & MSHRBC: 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. | |
March 22, 2025 | Graduate level post-doctoral (MD, PhD or equivalent) fellowships in the field of research in fetal or neonatal medicine. High priority is given to projects that concern fetal development, but any studies that involve original basic biomedical or clinical research in fetal or neonatal medicine will be considered. $35K for 1 year. The Foundation expects that the award will be supplemented or matched by the host institution. | |
Late March 2025 (TBA) | Health Research BC's Advancing the Use of | The program aims to improve home and community care for seniors through a blend of supporting both implementation of evidence-based interventions in seniors’ home and community care and learning across health authorities, academic institutions, and communities. Up to $50K for 6 months development (full application due late December 2025). |
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. | |
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 | An LOI was due on June 13, 2024 (Development Grant). | |
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. |
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
