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A research team applying for a SPOR PIHCI Programmatic Grant is looking for patients with two or more chronic conditions (including mental health) to join their team. Family members/close friends of adult patients with two or more chronic conditions are also welcome to participate. More details

The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) is pleased to offer matching funds to support the highest ranked BC applications that secure programmatic grants via the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation (PIHCI). These four year grants will support cross-jurisdictional teams…

CIHR and the PIHCI networks are hosting a webinar to describe grant requirements on August 2, 2017, at 1:00 pm EDT/10:00 am PDT. Learn more about the Programmatic Grants and register for the webinar: Funding Opportunities

The goal of this funding opportunity is to support research teams that contribute to capacity building efforts in patient-oriented research, as identified in the SPOR Capacity Development Framework, and catalyze opportunities for new/early career investigators to learn in the context of patient-oriented research teams. New/early career investigators are defined as having assumed their first independent…

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are launching a series of Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation Network (PIHCIN) funding opportunities. The first Programmatic Grant opportunity was launched on July 25, 2017. Funding is available for up to $250,000/year for four years. The CIHR application deadline is November…

Important Dates Expected launch date: August 2017 Expected application deadline: November 2017 Funding start date: March 2018 Rewarding Success Overview To change the paradigm of how successful innovative implementation research is rewarded, CIHR has designed the SPOR Rewarding Success Initiative that will incentivize multidisciplinary research teams and their partners to enhance value-based care, health system…

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) have partnered to create a dynamic cohort of complex, high system users. The Dynamic Cohort was developed using CIHI’s in-house datasets to facilitate cross-jurisdictional research that can shed light on how variations in health care delivery affect health outcomes. This…

On May 23, 2017 a Research Day was held for the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovations (PIHCI) networks. Researchers from across Canada presented on their progress on SPOR-funded Quickstrike research projects. Presentations were organized into SPARKs (longer) and BITEs (shorter), and can be viewed here: PIHCIN SPARKs and BITEs

Happy summer! Highlights from the first half of 2017 for the BC-PHCRN included hosting two very successful pre-conference workshops on strategies for patient engagement in research and tools for primary health care reform at the Taking the Pulse of Primary Health Care Reform conference in March; and engaging with clinicians, researchers, patients, and policymakers at…

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are launching a series of Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation Network (PIHCIN) funding opportunities. The first Programmatic (Multi-year) Grant opportunity will be launched on July 26, 2017. Funding is available for up to $250,000/year for four years. The CIHR application deadline…