Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Partnerships for Health System Improvement (Fall 2009 Competition) – Funding Decisions Notification (Fall 2009 Competition: 200910MPS)

(Alternate title: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: PHSI)

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

Funding Opportunity Summary

The purpose of the Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant – Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI) Development Funds - is to provide the opportunity for researchers and/or decision makers to apply for development funds to facilitate the formation and development of partnerships between researchers and decision makers interested in applying to the PHSI program. The PHSI Development Funds are also intended to enable potential teams to work together to identify research questions for a PHSI application.

CIHR will fund development activities to facilitate collaboration and partnership formation between Canadian researchers and decision makers from a variety of fields, disciplines, backgrounds and roles (e.g. program managers, decision makers and practitioners) with the objective of developing and/or enhancing:

• Partnerships between researcher(s) and decision makers interested in pursuing a collaborative research initiative through PHSI that will address a high priority and policy-relevant health care services or health systems problem;
• Initial planning and discussion of a PHSI research project among potential PHSI team members including both researchers and decision makers to assess the viability of the research project and the partnership;
• The ability of teams of health services and policy researchers and decision makers in Canada to become increasingly successful in the PHSI competition;
• Consensus on priority policy issues and research questions in health services and policy research where such common understanding is currently lacking or requires further development;
• Support for activities that assist potential teams of researchers and decision makers in identifying emerging issues and priorities that could potentially be addressed by projects funded in the PHSI competition.

Funding Competition Summary

A total of 9 applications were received of which 7 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:

Chris McCutcheon
Manager, PHSI and Evidence on Tap
Knowledge Synthesis and Exchange Branch, Knowledge Translation
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Telephone: 613-948-2725
Fax: 613-954-1800
E-mail: chris.mccutcheon@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Funding Decisions Data Report

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