Funder’s Website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value and Duration
CIHR and partner(s) financial contributions for this initiative are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or partner(s) funding levels not be available or are decreased due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to grants received as a result of this funding opportunity.
The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $3,900,000, enough to fund approximately twenty-six (26) grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount per grant is $150,000 per year for up to 1 year, for a total of $150,000 per grant.
- Of this $3,900,000:
- $1,650,000 is available from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to fund applications with a primary focus in the natural sciences and engineering (minimum 70% NSE attributable expenses).
- $75,000 is available from Michael Smith Health Research BC to co-fund the first successful application from an institution in British Columbia (BC). Additional funds may be available to fully fund the next in-line BC application.
- Applications must have substantive involvement in British Columbia, defined as having, at minimum one Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) based at a British Columbia based institution.
- All of Health Research BC’s funds must remain in the province of British Columbia to support the pursuit of the objectives of the funding opportunity.
For more information on the appropriate use of funds, refer to Allowable Costs.
Overview
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to catalyze urgent research that addresses evidence gaps related to the current outbreaks of HPAI. In alignment with the concept of One Health endorsed by the Quadripartite Organizations’ One Health Joint Plan of Action, this funding opportunity will support research activities at the interface of human, animal (including domestic and wildlife), and environmental systems, that is inclusive of diverse perspectives and approaches including Indigenous ways of knowing.
The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
- Enable researchers to rapidly generate interdisciplinary, high-quality and real-time evidence that can enhance Canada’s response related to the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1);
- Support cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary research collaborations that can support One Health* approaches to sustainably prevent, prepare for, and respond to the current outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1);
- Support rapid mobilization of evidence to support knowledge users including policy-makers, clinicians, public health organizations, animal health professionals, representatives from agricultural sectors, wildlife conservation organizations, and local communities, including Indigenous communities, where relevant.
To be relevant to the competition applications must address all three (3) objectives of this funding opportunity.
*For this Funding Opportunity, research studies must align with the concept of One Health endorsed by the Quadripartite Organizations’ One Health Joint Plan of Action
Eligibility Criteria
For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:
- The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be one of the following:
- an independent researcher or a knowledge user, 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).
- an individual affiliated with an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.
- a researcher or scholar working in a municipal, provincial or territorial government in Canada where the activity which forms the subject matter of the funding is not being funded by specific programs of those municipal, provincial and territorial governments.
- a Canadian non-governmental, not-for-profit organization (including community or charitable organizations) with a research or knowledge translation mandate.
- If you are a Canadian university researcher who is eligible to receive NSERC funds, you can apply on your own or as a team with co-applicants who are also eligible academic researchers
- The NPA must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
- The Institution Paid must be authorized to administer CIHR funds and/or NSERC funds by the funding start date.
- For laboratory based research with infectious H5 or H7 virus/samples, only researchers affiliated with already approved containment level 3 laboratories with the appropriate human and animal pathogen licences and authorizations in place are eligible to apply.
- 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 submit a Certificate of Completion (see How to Apply section).
- For applications involving Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis), the team must include at least one applicant who self-identifies as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) and/or demonstrates a track record of meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples.
- Applicants must comply with CIHR’s Policy on Identical / Essentially Identical Applications (see Section 5.2 Application Administration Guide).
- Members of the Canada Biomedical Research Fund and Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund (CBRF/BRIF) should ensure that there is no overlap in funding as outlined in the CIHR Guidelines on Identical or Essentially Identical Applications, should they apply for this funding opportunity. If you have received funding for similar work as part of the CBRF/BRIF, please indicate how the scope of the current application does not overlap with this work, and how this application is leveraging the CBRF resources.
Note:
- Participants, including Elders and/or Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, may participate on the application in a Collaborator role without the need to secure a CIHR PIN. Follow the instructions in the How to Apply section that pertain to Collaborators and indicate their role in the participant table. Elders’ and/or Indigenous Knowledge Keepers’ contributions to the proposed activities and their meaningful engagement must also be captured in the research proposal to address the points outlined in the evaluation criteria. Please note, names of Collaborators do not appear in CIHR funding decision databases and documents.
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) | July 4, 2024 |
| Submission to Sponsor | July 11, 2024 |
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