{"id":21512,"date":"2023-10-30T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cutheme.local\/coris\/?p=21512"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:31:02","slug":"cihr-team-grant-embracing-diversity-to-achieve-precision-health-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/coris\/2023\/cihr-team-grant-embracing-diversity-to-achieve-precision-health-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"CIHR – Team Grant : Embracing Diversity to Achieve Precision & Health Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n CIHR – Team Grant : Embracing Diversity to Achieve Precision & Health Equity\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Funder’s Website<\/h2>\n

The funder’s website can be found HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Funding Value and Duration<\/h2>\n

The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $41,010,000 (not including Supplementary Partner Funding \u2013 see below), enough to fund approximately 38 Engagement Grants, 19 Team Grants, and one supplement for a Knowledge Mobilization Hub. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate.<\/p>\n

Overview<\/h2>\n

The objectives of this funding opportunity are to fund new research that will improve health and achieve more equitable outcomes in nutrition, metabolic health, and chronic high burden diseases, as well as STBBI, across the life course of diverse groups of people in Canada by:<\/p>\n

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  1. Developing precision medicine approaches to characterize the variability that underlies mechanisms of disease, to prevent, detect, and intervene effectively in terms of disease susceptibility, progression, resilience and reversibility, and treatment<\/li>\n
  2. Increasing our understanding of interactions between structural, social, environmental, and biological determinants of health in Indigenous communities that underlie heterogeneity in health and disease<\/li>\n
  3. Increasing our understanding of interactions between structural, social, environmental, and biological determinants of health with particular emphasis on a diversity of populations who have historically experienced inequitable outcomes in Canada and at-risk groups that underlie heterogeneity in health and disease<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note that applicants will not be required to meet all the objectives in their respective application, but all objectives will be met through the funding opportunity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Eligibility Criteria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    For an application to be eligible at the LOI stage<\/strong>, all of the requirements stated below must be met:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be one of the following:\n