CIHR Catalyst Grant : HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research
Governance and Public Policy
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: inquire with unit
Memorial Deadline: Thursday 21st, April 2022
External Deadline: Tuesday 26th, April 2022
Description
The CIHR HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STBBI) Community-Based Research (CBR) Program (hereafter referred to as the CBR Program) is one of four research funding areas of the CIHR HIV/AIDS and STBBI Research Initiative. The CIHR HIV/AIDS and STBBI Research Initiative is responsible for the research components of the Government of Canada’s initiatives to address HIV/AIDS and other STBBI, in line with the Pan-Canadian STBBI Framework (Reducing the Health Impact of Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections in Canada by 2030: A Pan-Canadian STBBI Framework for Action) and Canada’s Action Plan on STBBI (Accelerating our response: Government of Canada five-year action plan on STBBI).
With the release of the Pan-Canadian STBBI Framework, the CIHR HIV/AIDS and STBBI Research Initiative expanded its scope to promote an integrated approach toward addressing HIV and other STBBI across the full cascade of care (prevention, testing, linkage to treatment and care, and ongoing care and support). HIV and other STBBI share common risk factors and transmission routes, are exacerbated by similar social, structural, economic and environmental contexts and inequities, and interact with each other to influence susceptibility to infection and negatively impact disease trajectories. Given the synergies that exist between HIV and other STBBI, the CIHR HIV/AIDS and STBBI Research Initiative strongly encourages the incorporation of an integrated approach to addressing HIV and other STBBI, while recognizing that infection-specific approaches are still appropriate in certain circumstances or communities. In addition, the CIHR HIV/AIDS and STBBI Research Initiative also strongly emphasizes the importance of meaningful engagement of those with lived/living experience to guide the research processes to better inform research methods and outcomes, which is in keeping with the objectives of the CBR Catalyst Grants.
The CBR Program supports the partnered work of Community Leaders and Researchers in knowledge development and capacity-building initiatives of relevance to communities engaged in the fight against HIV and/or other STBBI. All opportunities offered through the CBR Program are available in two distinct funding streams: Indigenous and General.
The aim of the Catalyst Grant component of the CBR program is to provide seed money to support HIV and/or other STBBI CBR research activities which represent a first step towards the pursuit of more comprehensive funding opportunities (e.g., operating grants).
- Examples of activities that might be conducted under this request for applications are (but are not restricted to):
- Facilitation of dialogue between communities and researchers in order to establish research partnerships;
- Workshops to design a research project and/or develop a proposal for a future CBR operating grant;
- Planning and execution of pilot projects or feasibility studies to generate preliminary data, proof of concept; and/or
- Development and/or validation of new interventions, tools, methodologies, protocols, theoretical models or frameworks.
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