CIHR Fellowship 2023-2024

Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery

Deadlines

Academic Unit: Inquire within unit

Memorial Deadline: Friday 29th, September 2023

External Deadline: Thursday 5th, October 2023

Description

Please note: The Memorial Deadline has been extended by an additional day to accommodate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Holiday (October 2, 2023)

Note to applicants:

1. 1) This opportunity is submitted using CIHR’s e-approval process which means that they must be “submitted” on ResearchNet by the internal MUN deadline as the applications will then be routed to RIS for review and e-submission to CIHR;
2. 2) Sponsor assessments (required element of the applications) must be uploaded by the sponsors at least 48 hours prior to the internal MUN deadline. Otherwise, the ResearchNet portal may not allow applicants to click “submit”.

Fellowships provide support for highly qualified applicants in all areas of health research at the post-PhD degree or post-health professional degree stages to add to their experience by engaging in health research either in Canada or abroad.

CIHR’s Health Research Training Strategy aims to equip research trainees so that they emerge from their training as scientific, professional, or organizational leaders within and beyond the health research enterprise. Generating Research Leaders of tomorrow is a key objective for CIHR.

Fellowships provide support for highly qualified applicants in all areas of health research at the post-PhD degree or post-health professional degree stages to add to their experience by engaging in health research either in Canada or abroad.

It is expected that applicants integrate sex and gender perspectives into their research to promote rigorous science that has the potential to expand our understanding of health determinants for all people. As such, applicants are required to indicate how they will account for sex (biological factor) and gender (socio-cultural factor) in the research design, methods, analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of findings. For more information and resources, please see the Sex, Gender and Health Research page on the CIHR website.

Stipend

The annual stipend level for:

• – Trainees with a PhD degree is $40,000 per annum.
• – Health Professionals who hold licensure (full or educational) in Canada and have less than two (2) years of research or clinical training experience since the completion of their health professional degree is $40,000 per annum. Upon completion of two (2) years of postgraduate research training, the awardee may be eligible to receive a stipend increase to the higher level.
• – Health Professionals who hold licensure (full or educational) in Canada and have two (2) or more years of research or clinical training experience since the completion of their health professional degree is $50,000 per annum.
• – Health professionals who do not hold licensure in Canada is $40,000 per annum. Upon obtaining licensure in Canada and two (2) years of research training, awardee may be eligible to receive a stipend increase to the higher level.

For awards physically held outside Canada, $5,000 is added to the annual stipend.

Research allowance: $5,000 per annum.

Duration of Support

The maximum duration of support, taking into account all Tri-Agency federal funding held^Footnote1, will depend on the degree(s) held by the applicant. For holders of a:

• – PhD degree, or PhD and health professional degrees, the maximum period of support is three (3) years minus the duration of any previous Tri-Agency support held at the postdoctoral researcher / post-health professional degree level (see examples of postdoctoral/degree researcher programs).
• – Health professional degree who are not requesting support to pursue a graduate degree, the maximum period of support is four (4) years minus the duration of any previous Tri-Agency funding held at the postgraduate level (see examples of Doctoral and Masters’ programs).
• – Health professional degree who are requesting support to pursue a graduate degree, the maximum period of support to complete the degree is five (5) years minus the duration of any previous Tri-Agency funding held at the postgraduate level (see examples of Doctoral and Masters’).

Note: Health Professionals who receive funding through this program to pursue a graduate degree must terminate their award upon completion of the degree.

Important Dates

Funding Sources

Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)