Overview:

1) Program related information
    National research platform holds answers to health aging

2) Funding opportunities
    Funding opportunities posted between June 27 and July 26, 2017 by CIHR and its partners

3) Application and funding policies
    Changes to paid parental leave for students and postdoctoral fellow research trainees

4) Upcoming webinars
    a) Webinars on the Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 Application
    b) Webinars on the Project Grant: Fall 2017 application

5) College of Reviewers
    College Chairs Update – Expanded Advisory Role, College Enrolment Continues and Competition Changes

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1) Program related information

National research platform holds answers to healthy aging

Canada’s health researchers have access to a valuable national research platform to answer important questions related to health and aging.

Launched in 2010, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) involves 51,000 Canadians, aged 45 to 85 at recruitment, who will be followed for 20 years.

The platform includes data on health status, physical assessments, diseases, cognition, psychological well-being and mental health, social well-being, economic aspects of aging, and blood-based biological markers.

The initial baseline data set is now ready and available for use by researchers and trainees working in all areas of health and psychosocial well-being. Follow-up data collection events will be repeated every three years for 20 years.

Please visit the CLSA website to find out more about the platform and how you can access the data for your research.

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2) Funding opportunities

Funding opportunities posted between June 27 and July 26, 2017 by CIHR and its partners

The following is a list of funding opportunities which CIHR and its partners posted between June 27 and July 26, 2017.

To view these opportunities, consult the CIHR Funding Opportunity Database.

Simply select the opportunity from the list which is sorted alphabetically.

• Catalyst Grant: Global Governance AMR & Related Infectious Disease Threats
• Clinician-Scientist Salary Award: 2017-2018
• Doctoral Research Award: 2017-2018
• Doctoral Research Award: Fall 2017 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas)
• Fellowship: 2017-2018
• Fellowship: Fall 2017 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas)
• Master's Award: 2017-2018
• Operating Grant: Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI 3)
• Operating Grant: Secondary Data Analysis
• Operating Grant: SPOR PIHCI Network: Programmatic Grants
• Other: Early Career Investigator Awards
• Other: International COEN Initiative in Neurodegeneration 2017
• Other: Planning & Dissemination Grants – ICS
• Other: SGBA Health Policy-Research Partnerships
• Prize: IHDCYH Talks (2017)
• Project Grant: Fall 2017 and Spring 2018

Specific inquiries on the funding opportunity may be directed to the contact(s) listed at the bottom of the funding opportunity.

General inquiries concerning CIHR funding opportunities may be directed to the CIHR Contact Centre.

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3) Application and funding policies

Changes to paid parental leave for students and postdoctoral fellow research trainees

The guidelines regarding parental leave supplements for eligible students and postdoctoral fellows research trainees who are paid out of agency grants will be changing July 31, 2017. Working collaboratively, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have sought to improve access to paid parental leave, harmonize their guidelines and reduce administrative burden.

As a result, effective July 31, 2017, SSHRC will join NSERC and CIHR in providing parental leave supplements paid out of agency grants within six months following the child's birth or adoption to eligible students and postdoctoral fellows who are primary caregivers for a child. (This will not be retroactive; it will apply to births and adoptions on or after July 31, 2017.)

Further, for all three agencies, starting on July 31, 2017, students or fellows eligible for other parental leave supplements may also be eligible for Agency supplements. The following sentence of the Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide in the "Administrative Matters" section will be deleted: "Students or fellows who are eligible for employment insurance or other parental leave supplements from other sources do not qualify for parental leave supplements".

Correspondingly, changes have been made to the "Checklist for Maternity and/or Parental Leave Paid from Grants to Students and Postdoctoral Fellows": essentially, SSHRC will adopt the same administrative model as NSERC, by which the supplements are paid to the institution as a reimbursement for the Paid Parental Leave they have provided to eligible students and postdoctoral fellows paid out of agency grants.

For any questions regarding this change, please contact:

• For SSHRC and NSERC: grantsadministration@nserc-crsng.gc.ca
• For CIHR, Financial Monitoring Team: FinancialMonitoring-controlefinancier@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

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4) Upcoming webinars

a) Webinars on the Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 Application

CIHR is holding a series of webinars on the Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 application. These Question and Answer webinars are designed to complement the Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 Applicant eLearning Module, which is a visual tour of the application process that highlights key information such as reference materials, recent changes and adjudication criteria.

Participants are strongly encouraged to review the module in advance of the webinar. These resources can be found at the following links:

• Learning Modules
• Webinars (register here)

The Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 webinars will start on Thursday, August 10, 2017. They will provide participants with a brief overview of recent changes and an opportunity to ask questions.

For more information, please contact the CIHR Contact Centre at: Support@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.

b) Webinars on the Project Grant: Fall 2017 application

CIHR is holding a series of webinars on the Project Grant: Fall 2017 application. These Question and Answer webinars are designed to complement the Project Grant: Fall 2017 Applicant eLearning Module, which is a visual tour of the application process that highlights key information such as reference materials, recent changes and adjudication criteria.

Participants are strongly encouraged to review the module in advance of the webinar. You can find these resources through the following links:

• Learning Modules
• Webinars (register here)

These webinars will provide participants with a brief overview of recent changes and an opportunity to ask questions.

For more information, please contact the CIHR Contact Centre at: Support@cihr-irsc.gc.ca. 

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5) College of Reviewers

College Chairs Update – Expanded Advisory Role, College Enrolment Continues and Competition Changes

On behalf of the College Chairs, we would like to thank all of our colleagues who have recently accepted membership in the College of Reviewers.  The invitations went out in June, and we have had a very positive response to date (more than 1,600 of the 2,000 invitees have accepted—and counting). Read more

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CIHR wants to hear from you

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder – CIHR wants to hear from you as much as possible. There is a wonderful story to tell about the results and benefits of health research in Canada, but we need your help to truly make this a page turner. And, we need to keep telling this story. So, we encourage you to let us know when you have or, better still, are close to publishing the results of research funded by CIHR. Please drop us a line at mediarelations@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.

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