November 2017

PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT: Health System Impact Fellowship (for doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows)

Anticipated launch: early December 2017

Application deadline: April 5 2018

Anticipated NOD: July 2018

Anticipated start date: September 2018

The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program provides highly-qualified doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows studying health services and policy research (HSPR), or related fields a unique opportunity to apply their research and analytic talents to critical challenges in health system and related organizations outside of the traditional scholarly setting and to develop professional experience, new skills, and networks.

This is the second launch of the HSI Fellowship program and it now contains a stream for doctoral trainees and a stream for post-doctoral fellows.  Stay tuned for additional details including the official launch of the Health System Impact Fellowship funding opportunity and dates for information webinars.

How to get involved: If you are a health system organization interested in adding PhD talent to your team and contributing to modernizing Canada’s HSPR training enterprise for greater impact potential, or to learn more about the Health System Impact Fellowship program, contact Meghan McMahon, Program Director, CIHR-IHSPR, mmcmahon.ihspr@mcgill.ca 

SPOR Innovative Clinical Trials Rewarding Success

*Application deadline: November 21, 2017*
Anticipated notice of decision: December 21, 2017

Funding start date: January 1, 2018

The Rewarding Success Initiative is an experimental funding model that is being piloted in five provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland & Labrador and Saskatchewan. The Rewarding Success Initiative is similar to other funding models that have been developed to support innovation and impact such as risk sharing, social impact bonds, and innovation prizes. The basic principle is that teams of patients, healthcare delivery organizations, clinicians, and researchers identify potential solutions to identified problems and priorities in health care; solutions that will enhance patient and provider experience while also:

• reducing low value health care (e.g. unnecessary diagnostic tests/ drugs), and/or
• addressing health care inefficiencies (e.g. wait lists), and/or
• reducing avoidable morbidity (e.g. stroke)

Objectives:

The iCT Rewarding Success is expected to:

1. Incentivize multidisciplinary research teams and their healthcare and innovation partners to design, adopt, and evaluate interventions implemented into a healthcare delivery organization that enhance value-based care, health system sustainability, and health outcomes.
2. Support innovative process transformations that improve health outcomes and value for Canada’s healthcare investment.

Operating Grant: Economic Forecasting

*Application deadline: November 28, 2017*

Anticipated notice of decision: February 28, 2018

Funding start date: March 1, 2018

This funding opportunity aims to provide relevant audiences with the frameworks and tools that can support the economic analysis of investments in primary and secondary health prevention, identify the scientific and policy challenges that must be addressed if the costs of such investments are to be amortized over time, and outline the changes required to accounting regulations that would allow the costs of primary and secondary prevention and early intervention services and programs to be amortized.

The objective of the Economic Forecasting funding opportunity is to:

• Advance knowledge in health economic forecasting of the cost of primary and secondary prevention, and early intervention services.
• Build capacity to produce financial projections that would more easily allow government departments to understand the impact of scaling evidence-based primary and secondary prevention interventions on their budgets over time