Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Funding opportunity supporting team grants for youth health research under the Healthy Youth Initiative.

Catalyst grant funding opportunity supporting youth health research initiatives launched in 2022.

A health research grant program supporting the implementation of population health interventions to improve Indigenous health and health equity with a focus on mental wellness, diabetes/obesity, tuberculosis, and oral health.

Enhancement and adaptation grants aimed at strengthening the effectiveness or scalability of interventions through community-informed enhancements or adaptations.

The HCRI is a strategic program with the overarching goal of improving population and public health across Canada by ensuring urban environments are maximizing their potential for supporting health and minimizing factors that contribute to poor health.

A $27 million+ funding opportunity designed to support interdisciplinary teams implement and evaluate interventions in diverse urban contexts with the goal of improving health and health equity.

Provides doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows a unique opportunity to apply their research and analytic talents to critical challenges in health system and related organizations outside of the traditional scholarly setting.

A fellowship program that embeds highly skilled, research-trained individuals into health system organizations to collaborate on policy and healthcare transformation.

Funding opportunity providing grants for Indigenous-led teams to implement research and action-oriented, community-based participatory projects to improve wellness for Indigenous Peoples from a gendered perspective.

A funding opportunity focused on Knowledge Sharing about learnings from Indigenous Gender and Wellness research using strengths- and distinctions-based, community-engaged approaches.

The Environments and Health initiative will support research focused on etiology, data platform enhancement and intersectoral prevention.

A long-term funding program led by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research aimed at establishing a national network of Centres focused on strengthening Indigenous research capacity, training, and mentoring.

Multi-disciplinary committee reviewing Doctoral applications to assess candidate potential in health services research and/or social, cultural, environmental and population health research.

Graduate health research scholarship program providing quotas for participating Canadian institutions for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Provides support for a high-quality research training experience to awardees pursuing a doctoral degree in a health-related field.

Multi-disciplinary committee reviewing Doctoral applications to assess candidate potential in biomedical and/or clinical research.

HeLTI is focused on shaping international policy around intervention during the earliest stages of life for the improvement of health and the prevention of later life non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory diseases and mental health.

I-HeLTI is focused on enabling the development of Indigenous focused interventions designed to improve health outcomes across the lifespan for Indigenous boys, girls, women, men, gender-diverse and Two-Spirit individuals in Canada.

The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting individual researchers or groups.

A health research grant program supporting research aimed at improving acute care outcomes for conditions within the mandate of the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health.

Grants to support planning and knowledge dissemination activities related to youth health research.

A funding opportunity designed to build research capacity, generate new knowledge, and support knowledge mobilization in human development, child and youth health by funding operating grants to early career researchers.

Recognizes the excellence of health services and policy researchers at an early stage in their career, providing a supplemental grant to support research and/or knowledge mobilization.

Provides financial support to students enrolled in or applying to an eligible master's program relevant to a specific CIHR priority research area.

A research funding initiative led by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support research and trainees across biomedical, clinical, health services, population, and community-based research related to HIV and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.

Funding opportunity for establishing a Pan-Canadian Clinical Trials Consortium.

A funding opportunity intended to support the development of interdisciplinary, inter-jurisdictional, and intersectoral research training platforms that attract a diverse cadre of trainees and early career researchers.

A health research grant program established to fund an integrated, interdisciplinary, and equitable Canadian Post COVID-19 Condition Research Network to address the long-term effects of COVID-19.

A funding opportunity provided by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to build capacity for the uptake of patient-oriented research in the Canadian health system by providing non-governmental health systems or related organizations with an opportunity to embed POR principles, practices, and findings within their health care contexts.

Grants that support planning activities to facilitate the development of research partnerships and projects relevant to global health research.

A national collaboration to direct new research in chronic pain, train researchers and clinicians, and translate findings into knowledge and policy.

Funding opportunity to support the establishment and/or expansion of a network of existing Clinical Trials groups/networks to collaborate and coordinate research on interventions to prevent, detect, manage, and/or treat COVID-19.

CRISM is a national research consortium in substance misuse that focuses on translation and implementation and is cross-pillar in nature.

An innovative pan-Canadian network that aims to improve life outcomes for children with brain-based developmental disabilities and their families.

Team development grants to support research teams in building relationships with Indigenous communities and identifying promising multi-faceted population health interventions.

A network dedicated to transforming the health outcomes of people with diabetes and its related complications.

An initiative supporting greater realization of critical sexual and reproductive health and rights by underserved and marginalized populations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Program aimed to nurture undergraduate students' interest in health research and develop their potential for a research career in health-related fields by providing research work experience.

Through its Research Data Centres, CRDCN offers researchers secure access to an array of social, economic and health microdata that are collected and administered by Statistics Canada.

The overarching vision of the ICRS is that a well-coordinated series of activities can position Canada to be a world leader in developing the research capacity and amassing the research evidence needed to appropriately roll out policy and regulatory models for non-medical cannabis use.

The Health System Impact Program provides highly qualified PhD trainees and postdoctoral researchers in health services and policy research with opportunities to develop embedded research projects addressing pressing problems faced by health system organizations.

Training award initiative aimed at opening up the health research community to newly arrived refugees.

Part of the Canadian Genomics Strategy, the CIHR Genomics Data & Capacity-Building Initiative aims to improve genomics data accessibility across the Canadian ecosystem, and to support the development of talent in the genomics sector.

A network aiming to develop innovative therapies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).

A training grant funding opportunity for establishing clinical trials training platforms.

Grants issued to Canadian researchers to mitigate or prevent the harm posed by potential or emerging health threats.

Recruits top-tier doctoral students, both nationally and internationally, who contribute to Canadian economic, social, and research-based growth.

Supports the next generation of innovators by providing funding to help offset the costs of undertaking research travel within or outside of Canada.

Travel awards for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and new investigators to attend and present their research at meetings, conferences and symposia.

Grant funding focusing on the transmission, spread, containment, and prevention of Ebola.

Research funding contributing to the understanding of how contextual conditions intersect with health actions to preserve pediatric health and promote health equity following the Alberta wildfires.

Grant funding focusing on vector studies related to the Zika virus.

An innovative and holistic training program for undergraduate summer students, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers to advance digestive health research.

CIHR is strengthening the clinical trials ecosystem to improve health care and health outcomes for all Canadians.

A Canada-wide training and mentoring platform focusing on obesity and diabetes research from molecular levels to community impacts.

A collaborative training platform to address kidney disease by increasing the number of well-trained kidney scientists through salary support and hands-on experiential research training.

Sponsored student poster competition designed to encourage graduate students to attend and showcase their work at the CAHSPR conference.

The CBPHC Signature Initiative supports innovative approaches to improving the delivery of appropriate and high-quality community-based primary health care to Canadians.

The National Standards for Mental Health Services Initiative supports research to inform the development of national standards for mental health and/or substance use services so Canadians can access the support they need, when they need it.

The Healthy and Productive Work Initiative is responding to important demographic trends with innovative and multi-disciplinary interventions that will support a healthy and productive Canadian workforce.

Over the past century, our understanding of diabetes has increased considerably, as have the options for treatment. However, more work needs to be done.