CIHR Operating Grant : Indigenous Gender and Wellness – Knowledge Sharing – Registration

Aboriginal Peoples

Social Justice

Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery

Deadlines

Academic Unit: Inquire with unit

Memorial Deadline: RIS Review not required for registration

External Deadline: Wednesday 3rd, September 2025

Description

This funding opportunity focuses on Knowledge Sharing about the outcomes and knowledge of Indigenous Gender and Wellness research using strengths- and distinctions-based, community-engaged approaches. This focus aims to ensure that research learnings about First Nations, Inuit and Métis Gender and Wellness effectively reach those who need to hear them – including First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals, communities and community partners, clinicians, decision-makers, the research community, research funders, trainees, and the general public, among others. This funding opportunity encourages the use of culturally relevant and/or arts-based methods to acknowledge and uphold Indigenous approaches to Knowledge Sharing in Gender and Wellness, and support work that is meaningful and culturally safe for First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis communities. In this context, wellness should be broadly defined to encompass an Indigenous, holistic view of health.

Possible topics or project themes might include, but are not limited to:

• – Gender and wellness across the lifespan, including in children, youth, adults and Elders
• – Gender, wellness, and aging
• – Gender, storytelling and intergenerational learning
• – Two-Spirit and/or Indigenous LGBTQI+ wellness
• – Gender expansive identities, roles and wellness
• – HIV and/or other STBBI
• – Men, boys, masculinities and wellness
• – Women, girls, femininities and wellness
• – Matriarchs and wellness
• – Perinatal and child health and wellness
• – Gender, family relations and/or parenting (e.g. fatherhood, motherhood, parenthood)
• – First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis understandings of gender, and how they related to wellness
• – Gender, language and wellness
• – Gender-based violence prevention and resilience
• – Prevention and resilience to the effects of colonization on Indigenous health and wellness, through a gendered lens
• – Gender and Land, body and spirit connections
• – Climate change and wellness, through a gendered lens
• – Gender and physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and/or cultural health and wellness
• – Gender and wellness considerations for health services and/or in the context of a specific health condition or outcome

This funding opportunity does not support conducting of Clinical trials.

See ResearchNet for more information.

Funding Sources

Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)