COVID-19 Mental Health & Substance Use Service Needs and Delivery (Operating Grant) – Registration
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with your unit
Memorial Deadline: No RGCS review required for the registration
External Deadline: Thursday 18th, June 2020
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.
This funding opportunity is part of the Government of Canada’s continued rapid response to address the major health challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding will be provided through multiple competitions designed to address mental health and substance use issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the intentional and unintentional effects of the public health measures to contain and mitigate its impact.
This rapid response funding opportunity follows on from the recent Knowledge Synthesis Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity in Mental Health and Substance Use, which sought to synthesize existing evidence on: the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of priority populations, the needs and responses of mental health and substance use services and delivery in the context of COVID-19, and the effectiveness or implementation of potential interventions.
This funding opportunity seeks to move further in the direction of implementation science and population-level intervention research to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures on mental health and substance use. Applicants to the current funding opportunity are not mandated to build on the previously funded Knowledge Syntheses, although all Knowledge Syntheses produced from the previous funding opportunity will be made available to successful investigators in the current competition.
This rapid response operating grant funding aims to more explicitly address the specific mental health and/or substance use crisis response needs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and/or the strategies to contain and mitigate its impact. As with the previous funding opportunity, this includes the mental health and substance use impacts caused by prolonged periods of social isolation, unexpected employment disruptions, increased vulnerability of older adults, school closures, financial distress, and changes to routine, among others. Moreover, this funding also aims to help prepare the mental health and/or substance use health care systems for the COVID-19 post-pandemic future, including additional, unexpected crises.
Key to all the short-term studies supported through this funding opportunity is establishing an evidence base for follow-on implementation science approaches. Research findings developed through this rapid response funding opportunity must be timely, innovative, and have clear linkages to both policies/services and established needs.
For all research priority areas below, eligible target populations will include both the general population (including First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples, including urban/rural/off-reserve Indigenous populations) and vulnerable/at-risk groups. Please see Additional Information for a non-exclusive list of priority populations.
Additional information can be found at ResearchNet.