CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grants – Institute/Initiative Community Support (Summer 2024 Competition)

[Annette McKinnon]

https://research-tools.mun.ca/funding/opportunities/cihr-planning-and-dissemination-grants-institute-initiative-community-support-summer-2024-competition/

We'd need a plan, and a researcher. I expect but this may be useful to pass on or to inspire someone.

The Planning and Dissemination Grants are intended to provide support for planning and/or dissemination activities (either virtual or in-person) consistent with the mandate of CIHR and relevant to CIHR Institutes and Initiatives.

CIHR is committed to promoting the inclusion and advancement of groups underrepresented in science as one of the means to enhance excellence in research, training, and knowledge mobilization. Proposals must outline measures for how organizers of planning and dissemination events and activities will meaningfully engage members of groups underrepresented in science

Applicants are encouraged to complete the CIHR Unconscious Bias Learning Module.

Events/activities may focus on, but are not limited to, the following:

Planning:

Activities that assist potential teams of researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners in working together to identify research questions or emerging issues and priorities that could form the basis of a grant application
Partner consultations, including citizen engagement activities regarding needs, gaps and opportunities in the health research landscape, priority policy issues and/or priority research questions, where such common understanding is currently lacking or requires further development
Initial planning and discussion of a research project among potential team members, including researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners to assess the viability of the research project and the partnership
Conducting an environmental scan or preliminary synthesis of relevant literature, activities or programs
Early-stage planning to determine possible commercial viability of a discovery
Opportunities for knowledge exchange involving partner linkages to inform practice, care, and/or policy that could potentially lead to an application to a funding opportunity
Gatherings of partners, health researchers, and/or knowledge-users where the main objective is to facilitate regional/national and/or international collaboration among individuals or groups from a variety of backgrounds (e.g., building new and existing multi-sectored partnerships that include a significant number of participants from outside the conventional scientific community, consensus meetings, networking and partnership development events) interested in applying to a funding opportunity
Dissemination:

Education of groups, such as patients, health professionals, community organizations, policy makers, and the general public
Knowledge dissemination that will inform practice, clinical care, partnership best practices, policy and decision making
Dissemination and/or discussion of research findings at scientific meetings, workshops, conferences, congresses or symposia
Development and dissemination of knowledge mobilization products and tools (e.g., written materials in various formats, plain language summaries, decision support tools, educational materials, and web sites)

[Sandra Holdsworth]

Would be great if we could get one of these Planning …. grants. Maybe showcasing the SPOR Refresh Report PAN completed for CIHR. Or our work with CDHE, CAHSPR, etc.