CIHR Operating Grant : Data Analysis Using Existing CDN Databases and Cohorts – Registration

Information and Communication Technology

Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery

Deadlines

Academic Unit: Inquire with unit

Memorial Deadline: RIS Review not required for registration

External Deadline: Wednesday 2nd, September 2026

Description

CIHR-IHDCYH has a vision of better beginnings, vibrant childhoods and empowered youth through research that makes a difference, as outlined in our Strategic Plan 2022-2026. One of the Institute’s three key priorities is to build capacity, which includes supporting key infrastructure and advancing greater access to data.

CIHR and other funding agencies have invested heavily in the establishment of cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, and data platforms. As a result, many high-quality data sets exist containing information on populations, health systems, patients, and biospecimens. These data sets contain a wealth of information and have the potential to answer research questions that go beyond those for which the data were originally collected or for which the data have been used to date. There is also the potential to link diverse datasets, thus enabling explorations of novel associations and interactions, for example between human, environmental, and clinical factors. Analyses using these existing resources are also a cost-effective way to provide high quality and timely evidence to improve patient outcomes and for population and public health decision making.

Purpose

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support projects that use data from existing Canadian-based cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, and data platforms, to advance knowledge in human development, child and/or youth health with the goal to improve patient, population, and system outcomes.

Research Areas

In addition to funding projects that align with the overall purpose of this funding opportunity, separate funding pools will support projects relevant to both the overall purpose and the following priority research areas:

• Equity-Denied Groups: This funding pool will support research aligned with the objectives of this funding opportunity that focuses on human development, child and youth health in equity-denied groups. Equity-denied groups include, but are not limited to, women/girls, persons with disabilities, racialized people and members of 2SLGBTQI+ communities.
• Cancer: This funding pool will support research aligned with the objectives of this funding opportunity that applies artificial intelligence methodologies to accelerate advancements in cancer research.
• Genetics: This funding pool will support research aligned with the objectives of this funding opportunity that focuses on any aspect of genetics, basic biochemistry and cell biology related to health and disease, including the translation of knowledge into health policy and practice, and the societal implications of genetic discoveries.
• Indigenous Health: This funding pool will support distinctions-based research aligned with the objectives of this funding opportunity that focuses on First Nations, Inuit, and/or Métis peoples.
• Musculoskeletal Health: This funding pool will support research aligned with the objectives of this funding opportunity that focuses on one or more of the following domains: joints, muscles, connective tissues, bones, skin, oral and craniofacial region, and physical activity.
• Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction: This funding pool will support research aligned with the objectives of this funding opportunity that examines brain health impacts of digital products.
• Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes: This funding pool will support research that aligns with the objectives of this funding opportunity and in which the objectives and aims are determined to be largely and directly relevant to the INMD mandate.

See ResearchNet for more information.

Funding Sources

Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)