CIHR is embarking on a new strategic plan and is seeking your guidance in helping identify areas of greatest strategic importance:

• How should CIHR spend its budget?
• How can CIHR help build the capacity of the Canadian health research community?
• How can CIHR help spread new research knowledge to improve the health of Canadians?

Your answers matter a great deal as they will help inform the development of a new strategic plan to guide CIHR over the coming years.

I am encouraging you, a…

Canada's first national dementia strategy sets out a vision for the future and identifies common principles and national objectives to help guide actions by all levels of government, non-governmental organizations, communities, families and individuals. In developing the strategy, we sought at all times to ensure that people living with dementia and the family and friends who provide care to them were at the heart of these efforts.

Read the full strategy here:

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) has commissioned the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to create the world’s largest survey on people’s attitudes around dementia, which will form the basis for the World Alzheimer Report 2019, to be released in September.

ADI’s survey is fully anonymous, accessible and available both online and offline in multiple languages.

The survey will only take around 10 minutes of your time but completing it will benefit people with dementia…

Dr. Michael J. Strong, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and CIHR’s Governing Council, announced today the appointment of Dr. Jane Rylett as the new Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Aging (CIHR-IA). This appointment will be effective August 1, 2019. 

Dr. Rylett is a Distinguished University Professor and currently serves as an Associate Dean in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. She is a Scientist in the Molecular…

Read the CIHR Institute of Aging new Strategic Plan here: http://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/51447.html 

Join us for our April CLSA Webinar: 2019 Update on the CLSA: What’s new and what’s next for Canada’s leading research platform on health and aging

This webinar will be presented by Dr. Parminder Raina, lead principal investigator of the CLSA, and Dr. Yves Joanette, scientific director of the CIHR Institute of Aging, via WebEx.

Now in its third wave of data collection, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) research platform has established itself as a leading resource for investigating…

New opinion piece by Dr. Heather Keller (Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition and Aging, and a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, at the University of Waterloo) on the new Canadian Food Guide.

Read the full piece here: https://ipolitics.ca/2019/02/21/new-food-guide-well-designed-for-the-healthy-but-those-with-frailty-and-chronic-illnesses-need-different-approach/?fbclid=IwAR2fpA1c6F1cWVwUfCP8UIz3_L0rJb7Yourl4Eb9gVQgAFSDVDSDk-9qAx0

We are introducing two new requirements for all submissions to Implementation Science, which take effect February 1, 2019.

'Contributions to the literature' - a new article section

Beginning February 1, 2019, we will require all manuscripts submitted to Implementation Science include a bulleted statement describing what the paper, if published, would add to the literature in implementation science.

The statement should consist of three to five bullet points of no more than 100 words. Authors…

The federal government is phasing out a 30-year-old funding program known for connecting teams of scientists across Canada and encouraging them to work together in key areas of biomedical and environmental research, The Globe and Mail has learned.

On Thursday, Science Minister Kirsty Duncan is expected to reveal that the government will eventually discontinue supporting the entities that are collectively known in Canada’s research landscape as Networks of Centres of Excellence. The category…