Healthy Cities Research Initiative Planning Grants for Implementing Healthy Urban Policy
Community, Regional & Enterprise Development
Governance and Public Policy
Social Justice
Well-being, Health and Biomedical Discovery
Deadlines
Academic Unit: Inquire with unit
Memorial Deadline: Wednesday 7th, August 2024
External Deadline: Wednesday 7th, August 2024
Description
he CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative (HCRI) is a major initiative led by the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) in collaboration with the Institute of Aging (IA), Institute of Gender and Health (IGH), Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH), Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA), and Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD). HCRI is designed to deepen Canada’s scientific leadership in planning, designing, and building healthy cities. Achieving the goal of leadership in the science of healthy cities requires partnership across many sectors and all levels of government.
The Planning Grants for Implementing Healthy Urban Policy supports collaboration between city leaders and researchers and co-development of activities related to implementing and evaluating interventions in urban settings that would improve health and wellbeing. The goal of this pool is to facilitate the design of implementation research projects that could possibly be funded in the future through CIHR’s Project Grant Program, CIHR’s Healthy Cities Research Initiative, or opportunities from other funders.
This opportunity is composed of two parts: a five-day immersive workshop in Helsinki, and a post-workshop planning and knowledge mobilization activity/event.
To support the research planning process, teams composed of four city/community leaders and one researcher will be required to participate in a five-day workshop organized by 880 Cities. The theme for this workshop is healthy urban policy implementation. The workshop will take place in Fall 2025 in Helsinki. Teams will benefit from examining how the model city has designed, implemented, and evaluated healthy urban policies such as housing and sustainable growth, healthy and active public spaces for all seasons, and planning the equitable city for all ages and will draw on these learnings to develop action plans and intervention research ideas for their own Canadian cities. The required workshop will explore the connection between improved health outcomes and well-designed, maintained, and programmed infrastructures and interventions, and will emphasize opportunities for using data and research.
Note: this workshop will be conducted in English only. Following the workshop, teams will host a planning and knowledge mobilization activity/event in their own community.
In addition to the Objectives outlined above, the specific objectives of this pool are to:
- Empower and support communities and researchers to collaboratively adapt, implement and evaluate healthy cities interventions with the ultimate goals of maximizing the success, long-term sustainability, health, and equity-promoting potential of interventions; and
- Build capacity among knowledge users and implementers to continually monitor and improve urban environments to meet the needs of people of all ages, abilities, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
See ResearchNet for more information.
| Competition | 202408PCS |
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| Application Deadline | 2024-08-07 |