EIHR e-Alert – July 2011

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's new Evidence-Informed Healthcare Renewal (EIHR) initiative will support researchers and decision makers to work together to advance the current state of knowledge, generate novel and creative solutions, and translate evidence for uptake into policy and practice to strengthen Canada’s healthcare systems.

The EIHR initiative focuses on three priority areas:

• financing and funding models
• health system sustainability
• governance and accountability

Innovation in these areas will require contributions from a wide range of disciplines and methodological approaches. Health services and health policy research would greatly benefit from contributions from economics, political science, sociology, philosophy, law, and other relevant fields, and from the involvement of policy makers, decision makers and healthcare providers.

The EIHR initiative’s first set of funding opportunities, Knowledge Synthesis grants, supports innovative syntheses that advance the current state of knowledge and contribute to evidence-informed decision-making within EIHR’s three priority areas. These grants were launched on June 23, 2011 and can be accessed on ResearchNet.

Stay tuned for more EIHR funding opportunities being launched in July including:

• Partnerships for Health System Improvement Grants
• Policy Analysis Grants
• Advancing Theories and Methodological Innovation Grants
• Fellowship and Post-doctoral Research Awards

To learn more about the EIHR initiative, including upcoming funding opportunities priority research areas, and other important news, contact Michael at michael.rajendram@cihr-irsc.gc.ca or Meghan at mmcmahon.ihspr@mcgill.ca.