Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Population and Public Health (Fall 2009 Competition) – Funding Decisions Notification (October 2009 Competition: 200910MIP)

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is pleased to announce the results of the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Population and Public Health (Fall 2009 Competition) competition.

Funding Opportunity Summary

IPPH will fund meritorious knowledge exchange activities (e.g. workshops, environmental scans, researcher exchanges to facilitate joint research project development with/between IPPH-funded teams/centres/training initiatives) to facilitate collaboration among individuals from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds and roles (e.g. researchers and research users such as program managers, policy-makers and practitioners) with the objective of developing and/or enhancing:

• collaborative research and knowledge exchange initiatives to address at least one or more domains of IPPH's strategic research and knowledge exchange priorities that are underdeveloped;
• interdisciplinary networks of researchers and research users dedicated to addressing one or more of IPPH's strategic research and knowledge exchange priorities (across geography and/or discipline and/or sector); and
• consensus on priority policy issues and research questions in IPPH's strategic research and knowledge exchange priority areas, where such common understanding is currently lacking or requires further development.

Funding Competition Summary

A total of 12 applications were received of which 10 were approved for funding.

Contact Information

For further information about this competition, please contact:

Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant Program
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Telephone: 613-941-3543
Fax: 613-954-1800
Email: MPD-SRPD@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

For further information about this initiative and the objectives of this funding opportunity please contact:

Kim Gaudreau
CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health
Telephone: 613-957-6128
Fax: 613-954-1800
Email: kim.gaudreau@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Funding Decisions Data Report

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