Funder’s Website

The funder’s website can be found HERE.

Funding Value and Duration

  • The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $15,500,000, enough to fund approximately seven (7) Research Team grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate.
  • Of this $15,500,000:
    • $2,000,000 ($400,000 per year for 5 years) is available to fund at least one (1) grant relevant to Youth Behaviours, Vaping and Lung Health
    • $2,000,000 ($400,000 per year for 5 years) is available to fund at least one (1) grant relevant to Biological Effects of Vaping and Lung Health
    • $2,000,000 ($400,000 per year for 5 years) is available to fund at least one (1) grant relevant to Women’s Lung Health
    • $2,000,000 ($400,000 per year for 5 years) is available to fund at least one (1) grant relevant to Inflammation and Lung Health
    • $2,000,000 ($400,000 per year for 5 years) is available to fund at least one (1) grant relevant to Climate, Air Quality and Lung Health
    • $2,000,000 ($400,000 per year for 5 years) is available to fund at least one (1) grant relevant to Cancer and Lung Health
    • $3,500,000 ($700,000 per year for 5 years) is available to fund at least one (1) grant relevant to Data Science, Policy and Lung Health. $1,500,000 of these funds is to support infrastructure and coordination of the Data and Biosample cross-cutting theme on behalf of all Research Teams supported through this funding opportunity.
    • Applications relevant to each pool will be funded top down in order of ranking.

Overview

The purpose of the Team Grant funding opportunity is to fund interdisciplinary teams that will address ongoing, new and emerging threats to lung health by improving the understanding of biological, social, environmental and behavioural effects on lung health. Collectively, these teams will develop and disseminate evidence-based solutions for better lung health and overall wellness, including a focus on health disparities; equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) analyses; and Indigenous contexts.

Eligibility Criteria

For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:

  1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be an independent researcher affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution and/or its affiliated institutions (including hospitals, research institutes and other non-profit organizations with a mandate for health research and/or knowledge translation);
  2. The NPA must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
  3. The Institution Paid must be authorized to administer CIHR funds by the application deadline (see List of CIHR Eligible Institutions ).
  4. The NPA must have successfully completed one of the sex-and gender-based analysis training modules available online through the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and have submitted a Certificate of Completion (see How to Apply section).
  5. In addition to the NPA, a Research Team application must include multidisciplinary team members that demonstrate expertise to address each of the cross-cutting themes.
  6. In addition to the NPA, at a minimum, each Research Team application must include the following:
    1. An Early career researcher(s) and/or mid-career researcher(s) as Co-Principal Applicant(s);
    2. Trainee(s);
    3. A Knowledge user(s); and
    4. Person(s) with lived/living experience: In the context of this funding opportunity, this includes individuals with personal experience of a health issue, and formal and informal caregivers, including family and friends.
  7. For Research Team applications undertaking Indigenous Health Research, at least one (1) team member must be:
    1. An independent researcher or knowledge user who self-identifies as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) and/or provides evidence of having meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples;
      OR
    2. An Indigenous Elder and/or an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper*;
      OR
    3. An Indigenous non-governmental organization;
      OR
    4. An individual associated with an Indigenous non-governmental organization.
  8. Applicants may be a NPA for one Research Team application only; however, an NPA may be involved as a co-applicant in other Research Team applications.

*A Knowledge Keeper (also known as a Knowledge Holder or Knowledge Guardian) is an Indigenous person, regardless of age, who possesses the Indigenous cultural knowledge necessary for the proposed research project or activities, as recognized, validated, and authenticated by the Indigenous community.

Internal Contacts

Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.

Deadlines

Faculty Deadline Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator.
OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) November 9, 2023
Submission to Sponsor November 16, 2023

Submitting Your Application

  • Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
    Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
    https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
    For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click HERE.
  • Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
    Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. To navigate to the funder’s website, click HERE

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