Notice of Upcoming Funding Opportunity: Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health Catalyst Grants
Introduction
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health - Catalyst Grants.
This funding opportunity will be led by CIHR - Institute of Population and Public Health, in partnership with the Institute of Aging, the Institute of Infection and Immunity, the Institute of Cancer Research, the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, the Institute of Gender and Health, the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, the Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health, the CIHR HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections Research Initiative, the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health, and the Canadian Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research.
Overview
Health inequities exist, persist, and are growing in Canada. Significant health inequities subsist between the general Canadian population and Indigenous Peoples, sexual and racial minorities, immigrants, people living with functional limitations, and those on a gradient of socioeconomic status.
Social determinants of health are conditions under which people are born, grow, live, love, work, and age, and include factors such as education, employment, social support networks, and gender. Structural determinants of health are defined as the larger societal, economic, ecological, and political contexts which shape these more proximal social determinants and, in turn, population health and well-being. These distinct concepts have historically been fused together, and structural determinants have been under-examined. An increased evidence base on these determinants is needed to inform future action.
This one-year funding opportunity will support interdisciplinary research to analyze, contextualize and/or evaluate how structural drivers (e.g., legislation and policies, governance structures, ecological and commercial determinants) can create, maintain, or exacerbate health (in)equity and population health across sub-groups, regions, contexts and settings. The desired outcome is to contribute to the evidence base in Canada on the structural drivers that improve, sustain, or deteriorate population health and health equity by bringing together health research with other disciplines.
Objectives
This funding opportunity aims:
- To increase the evidence base on the structural determinants of health inequities in Canada.
- To support a range of identifiable and/or novel interdisciplinary research designs, theories, methods, and approaches to understand the structural determinants of health and their impacts on health (in)equities.
- To foster connections and collaboration between researchers and stakeholders across a broad range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) population and public health researchers, public health professionals, people with lived experience, communities, knowledge keepers, knowledge-users, and decision-makers to translate knowledge into policy and practice. This form of knowledge synthesis will be supported through a convening event that all funded applicants will attend during the funding period.
Research Areas
This funding opportunity will support projects relevant to the following research areas:
- General Pool
- Ecological Determinants of Health Inequities
- Commercial Determinants of Health Inequities
- Structural Racism and Health Inequities
- Structural Determinants of Ageism
- Structural Determinants of Cancer Inequities
- Structural Determinants of Sex, Gender and Health Inequities
- Structural Determinants of Substance Use in Youth
- Structural Determinants of Inequities in Infection and Immunity
- Structural Determinants of Inequities in Human Development, Child and Youth Health
- Structural Determinants of Indigenous Health and Wellness
- Structural Determinants of Health in HIV/AIDS and STBBI
- Structural Determinants of Health – Patient-Oriented Research Approach
Funds Available
The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $4,000,000, enough to fund approximately 32 grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount per grant is $125,000 per year for 1 year.
Anticipated Timelines
These timelines are estimates and subject to change.
- Launch: Spring 2024
- Registration Deadline: Fall 2024
- Application Deadline: Fall 2024
- Anticipated Notice of Decision Date: Spring 2025
- Funding Start Date: Spring 2025
The official CIHR funding opportunity will be posted on ResearchNet in the coming weeks.
For a full list of CIHR funding opportunities, please visit ResearchNet.
Contact Information
For general inquiries please contact:
CIHR Contact Centre
Telephone: 613-954-1968
Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178
support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
Disclaimer
The information contained herein is anticipatory only and does not represent an official funding commitment by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Accordingly, the information, contained herein may differ from the official funding opportunity that will be published on ResearchNet.
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