Chair : CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chair
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with Unit
Memorial Deadline: Tuesday 1st, October 2019
External Deadline: Tuesday 8th, October 2019
Description
SIRI will be offering support with application development for this opportunity. Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Jennifer Stevens (v5js@mun.ca) early during the development process to discuss the services available to them.
The field of sex and gender science aims to deepen our understanding of how biological and social influences interact to affect health and disease. This emerging field is moving the needle from observational differences in disease and response to treatment towards elucidating the underlying mechanisms and environmental and social factors that cause them. Ultimately, the goal of sex and gender science is to advance the development of personalized treatments, interventions, policies and programs that respond to the unique needs of all individuals — across sex, gender and other intersecting identity factors.
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support in-depth investigations in the field of sex and gender science by promoting a cadre of discipline-specific Chairs to increase visibility and drive innovation in their respective fields. The initiative will grow the science across health research domains, fostering programs that examine the mechanisms underlying observed biological sex differences; supporting the development of methods and measures to study sex and gender; and encouraging comparative effectiveness research of gender-transformative interventions. The Chairs will investigate sex and/or gender as a primary research question within the investigator’s field of research, while also building capacity and sharing findings within and outside of their research communities.
Funds Available
- The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $13.3M, enough to fund approximately 19 Chairs. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount per chair is $175,000 per year for four years, for a total of $700,000 per Chair.
- $100,000 per year for research support
- $75,000 per year for capacity-building activities, including trainee support, mentoring, knowledge translation activities, etc. Note: these funds are not intended to support data collection/knowledge creation
Objectives
The CIHR Sex and Gender Science Chairs Initiative is expected to:
Grow the science of sex and gender research through the development and application of novel methods for elucidating the sex- and gender-related mechanisms that underpin the risk, incidence and response of various health and disease conditions in order to shape new therapies, interventions, programs and policies;
- Increase visibility and position Canada as a leader in discipline-specific sex and gender science; and
- Support capacity building in sex and gender science among the next generation of health researchers.
Additional information is can be found on Research Net.