Programmatic Grants in Food and Health

The CIHR Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD) is announcing the launch of the CIHR Programmatic Grants in Food and Health funding opportunity. This initiative is launched in partnership with CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health, and the CIHR/Rx&D Collaborative Research Program as well as Health Canada (Bureau of Nutritional Sciences, Office of Nutrition Policy and Promotion, and First Nations and Inuit Health Branch); Public Health Agency of Canada; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; the Centrum Foundation of Pfizer Consumer Healthcare; AllerGen NCE Inc. and The Micronutrient Initiative.

Applicants for the CIHR Programmatic Grants may also be able to secure infrastructure funding to support their research from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF) using an expedited application process.

The CIHR Programmatic Grants in Food and Health funding opportunity has been developed in response to the workshop recommendations from the National Workshop INMD convened, Advancing Food and Health Research Priorities.

The primary objectives of the CIHR Programmatic Grants in Food and Health are to:

• support programmatic research that contributes new knowledge to improve nutritional health status at the individual and population level, compress morbidity in relation to chronic diseases, and inform nutritional policies and practices;
• support interdisciplinary collaborations that involve researchers and knowledge-users in nutritional sciences, food, agriculture, and other sectors in Canada and if appropriate, also with other countries; and,
• facilitate effective knowledge translation approaches to enhance the use of new knowledge to inform decision-making in nutrition practice, nutritional guidelines, food policy, and public health nutrition policies.

Please visit the CIHR website to access the full funding opportunity.

Important Dates

	Phase 1: Letter of Intent	Phase 2: Full application
Application Deadline	2012-05-14	2013-01-11
Notice of Decision	2012-09-28	2013-06-17
Funding Start Date	2012-09-04	2013-06-01

Funds available

The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $10,240,000 (including development grant funds), enough to fund approximately 5 grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners decide to participate.

• The maximum amount awarded for a single grant is $400,000 per year for up to five years
• Developmental grants of up to $10,000 may be offered, if requested, to successful applicants at the Letter of Intent stage.
• This funding is non-renewable.

Of this $10,240,000, a minimum of:

• $2,000,000 is available to fund applications focused on Biomedical Research.
• $2,000,000 is available to fund applications focused on Human/Clinical Health.
• $2,000,000 is available to fund applications focused on Population Health.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF) will accept proposals under the LOF for a maximum total cost of $2,000,000.

The CFI will contribute up to 40% of the eligible infrastructure costs of a project.

Frequently Asked Questions

A series of frequently asked questions concerning the Programmatic Grants in Food and Health were developed for this funding opportunity. Please contact INMDComms@cihr-irsc.gc.ca to obtain a copy.

Webinars

INMD hosted a series of web-based information sessions for the research community to learn more about this funding opportunity. There were three presentations made at each session:

• Programmatic Research in Food and Health Information Session
• Partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canada Foundation for Innovation
• Dr. Valerie Tarasuk’s Perspective of a Researcher