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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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more