Funding + Award Opportunities

WHRI Internal Funding Opportunities

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

  • Family Practice physician or resident
  • To support family practice research related to women’s health

More information.

ROLLING – for Recipients of the Sue Harris Grant only.

  • Family physician who is a new investigator and who has completed a research study and wishes to have it published in a peer reviewed journal

AND/OR

  • A past winner of the Sue Harris Family Practice Research Grant requesting funding to support the publication of findings from that project.

Call for applications

Upcoming Funding opportunities FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH

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FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

DESCRIPTION

Rolling

AthenaDAO Women's Health Research Funding

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).

December 3, 2024

CIHR-IMHA Digital Health Catalyst Grant

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

CIHR Team Grant: Healthy Youth (Registration)

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

SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants

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

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants

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

Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA)

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)

Health Research BC Industry-based program

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

SSHRC Connection Grants

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

SSHRC Insight Development Grants

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

CIHR Team Grant: Healthy Youth

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

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

SSHRC Partnership Grants - Stage 1

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

Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee 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 Joint Initiative

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

CIHR Project Grant Spring 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

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants

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

SSHRC Impact Awards

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

SSHRC Connection Grants

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

SSHRC Connection Grants

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

Team Grant : HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research

LOI now closed.

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