Early Career Investigators in Maternal, Reproductive, Child & Youth Health (2020) – Registration
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with your unit
Memorial Deadline: RGCS review not required for Registration
External Deadline: Tuesday 15th, December 2020
Description
Registration Deadline: December 15, 2020
Application Deadline: January 26, 2021
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This funding opportunity is a collaboration between two CIHR institutes with a goal to build research capacity, generate new knowledge, and support knowledge exchange and translation in maternal, reproductive, child and youth health by funding operating grants to early career investigators.
The program will fund research across the four CIHR research themes (biomedical, clinical, health services, and social, cultural, environmental, and population health) that has the potential to have a significant impact on maternal, reproductive, child and youth health outcomes according to the mandates of the participating sponsors. Ultimately, the program aims to strengthen Canada’s capacity and knowledge to respond to challenges and needs by providing important early career development support to researchers in these fields.
Research Areas
All applications in the area of maternal, reproductive, child and youth health research as per IHDCYH’s mandate will be eligible for support.
In addition, funding is available to support projects that are determined to be relevant to the following specific research areas:
- Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA): Maternal, reproductive, child and/or youth health research relevant to the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction’s mandate to support research to enhance mental health, neurological health, vision, hearing, and cognitive function and to reduce the burden of related disorders through prevention strategies, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation.
In keeping with the CIHR Sex, Gender and Health Research policy, all proposals are expected to consider how sex and/or gender might shape the research described. Applicants are encouraged to visit the CIHR sex- and gender-based analysis resource page for more information on key considerations for the appropriate integration of sex and gender in their proposal.
Funds Available
CIHR and partner(s) financial contributions for this initiative are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or partner(s) funding levels not be available or are decreased due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to grants received as a result of this funding opportunity.
- The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $735,000, enough to fund approximately 7 grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount from CIHR per grant is $35,000 per year for up to 3 years for a total of $105,000, per grant.
- Of this $735,000:
- $105,000 is available to fund applications in the research area relevant to INMHA (1 grant).
- $630,000 is available to fund applications related to any area of maternal, reproductive, child and youth health, as per IHDCYH’s mandate (6 grants).
- Applicants must secure a partner contribution from non-federal sources to match the CIHR contribution at a minimum of 1:1 ratio by the successful applicant’s host institution and/or other partner(s), which may include but are not limited to foundations, health charities, community groups, industry and private sector.
- Matching funds must be 100% cash contributions; cash equivalent matching contributions are not eligible.
- Matching funds must be committed by the application deadline date; details must be provided in the Partnership Details form (see How to Apply section).
- Start-up funds provided to an applicant by their host institution are eligible as matching funds if some, or all, of those funds can be committed to the project. Any portion of start-up funding already committed to another research project is not eligible. The details must be provided in a letter of support (see How to Apply section).
- Additional information can be found at ResearchNet.