CIHR has announced the following funding opportunity:
Operating Grant: Population Health Intervention Research (Fall 2015 Competition)

Full details can be found on the funding opportunity page: https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.doprog=2287&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true

Application Deadlines:
Brescia Research Officer: 1 week before agency deadline (allow for 2 weeks before if you wish to receive feedback on your application, and/or if you require additional materials)
Agency: October 15 2015

Anticipated Notice of Decision: Feb 29 2016

Funding Start Date: Feb 1 2016

The maximum amount per grant is $250,000 for over a period of up to 2 years. The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $3,027,250, enough to fund approximately 12 grants. This amount includes funding from partners for applications that align specifically with their relevant research areas as described in the Partner Description section. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate.

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Generate evidence about interventions in health and other sectors that have the potential to promote health and health equity at a population level;
• Catalyze new and existing collaborations with community, not-for-profit, private and/or public sectors within and outside of health;
• Facilitate consideration and application of new evidence about population health interventions in decision-making.

Eligibility of Interventions

• For this opportunity, the object of study must be a population-level intervention (e.g. a program, policy, social enterprise or resource distribution approach) that has already been developed and implemented by others (e.g., policy makers) and has the potential to impact health and health equity at the population level, including studies of implementation processes and outcomes. Population-level interventions operate in health and other sectors (e.g. education, transportation).
• Population health interventions are intended to shift the distribution of risk and illness in entire populations or communities by targeting the social, cultural and environmental determinants rather than through clinical approaches targeting individual patients and their families. Therefore, population health interventions under study, for the purposes of this funding opportunity, must have a primary prevention focus. Interventions related to clinical interventions and approaches targeting individual patients and their families are not eligible to apply (e.g., the study of interventions that aim to manage complications from or treat a disease or disability).
• Past launches of this funding opportunity required an element of time sensitivity related to rapidly unfolding programs, policies and resource distribution approaches that demonstrated a clear need for the rapid review and funding disbursement that was not being met by timelines for funding under other CIHR programs. While this explicit requirement has been removed from the current funding opportunity, rapidly unfolding time sensitive intervention studies are still eligible.

Application

• The application submission uses ResearchNet. You must establish a ResearchNet account and CIHR PIN if you don’t have one.
• The application process for this funding opportunity is comprised of one step: an application.
• To complete your Application, follow the instructions in the Grants – ResearchNet “Application” Phase Instructions along with any additional instructions found below under “Specific Instructions”.

CCV requirements:

Identify your role on ResearchNet and the participant role you select will determine which CV you are required to submit. For each participant (except collaborators), enter the confirmation number for the CIHR Academic CV (replaces Full Application CV) or the Knowledge User CV, as appropriate, validated for CIHR provided by the Canadian Common CV. You can find this number under your history on the CCV Web site.