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Application Deadline: November 15, 2016
Anticipated Notice of Decision: February 28, 2017
Funding Start Date: January 1, 2017

Funds available: The maximum amount per grant is $100,000 for one year.
How to Apply:  Your Application must be submitted using ResearchNet.

Purpose: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support the creation of evidence to support the development of nutrition and health policy and programs through the use of the 2015 CCHS- Nutrition data as it relates to the impact of nutrition and food security on health and disease.  Results from this survey will be used extensively for policy-making and program development that affect Canadians. The Canadian Community Health Survey has already been instrumental in drawing attention to emerging health issues, such as increasing trends in obesity.

This funding opportunity will support research related to the use of the 2015 CCHS data to answer population health questions. Linkages between 2015 CCHS data and other data sets (e.g. ecological data, environmental data, provincial health services administrative data) are encouraged. In addition, this funding opportunity aims to support research incorporating sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA).

Relevant Research Areas

The CIHR Institutes of Nutrition Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD) and Circulatory and Respiratory Health, in partnership with Health Canada, Statistics Canada, and the Canadian Nutrition Society will provide funding for applications that are determined to be relevant to the following research areas:

• Dietary intake, nutritional vulnerability, food insecurity, and health equity.
• Examination of eating behaviours, dietary patterns and/or supplement use related to under and over-consumption of foods and nutrients of public health concern, body composition and/or health status.
• Linking of environmental, ecological, health services administrative data to the CCHS Nutrition survey to answer questions related to broad determinants of dietary intake, health status and chronic disease (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular disease).
• Changes in nutrient intakes since the 2004 CCHS related to eating behaviours, social determinants of health and health status across sub-populations  (e.g. older adults, children and youth, marginal populations).
• Innovative methods to advance population dietary assessment in Canada and address data gaps/limitations, e.g. quick tools to measure unhealthy eating patterns, data linkages, new technologies.