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Competition Open: CIHR Operating Grant–ECRs in Human Development, Child and Youth Health

April 10, 2024

CIHR Operating Grant (2024)

Early Career Researchers in Human Development, Child and Youth Health

Funding Objectives

  • Support early career researchers in initiating and conducting independent research in human development, child and youth health with the goal of building research capacity in this important health research area.
  • Generate new knowledge that will contribute to improving human development, child and youth health outcomes, promote health equity, and increase our understanding of the challenges, needs and current gaps in this research area.
  • Facilitate knowledge exchange and translation between early career researchers and other stakeholders in human development, child and youth health.

Funds Available

  • Maximum amount per grant is $50,000 per year for up to 3 years (total of $150,000 per grant)
  • Total amount available is $1,800,000, enough to fund ~12 grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate.
    • Of the $1,800,000:
      • $1,200,000 is available to fund 8 applications relevant to the overall purpose of the funding opportunity.
      • $300,000 is available to fund 2 applications relevant to the Indigenous Human Development, Child and Youth Health pool.
      • $300,000 is available to fund 2 applications relevant to the Human Development, Child and Youth Health for Equity-Deserving Groups pool.
      • Applications relevant to each pool will be funded top down in order of ranking. Remaining applications in the competition will be pooled together and funded in rank order. If a pool is undersubscribed or lacks fundable applications, funds will be rolled into the general competition pool.

Research Areas

  • In addition to supporting projects relevant to human development, child and youth health in IHDCYH’s mandate area, separate funding pools will support the following priority areas:
  • Indigenous Human Development, Child and Youth Health: This funding pool will support distinctions-based research that focuses on human development, child and youth health in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and/or communities.
  • Human Development, Child and Youth Health for Equity-Deserving Groups*: This funding pool will support research that focuses on human development, child and youth health in equity-deserving groups. Equity-deserving groups include, but are not limited to, women, persons with disabilities, members of visible minority/racialized groups and members of 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

*Please note that projects focused on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) human development, child and youth health must apply to the Indigenous Human Development, Child and Youth Health pool. Projects that include Indigenous people in a broader sample of equity-deserving groups must apply to the Human Development, Child and Youth Health for Equity-Deserving Groups pool.

Eligibility

  • All 9 eligibility requirements (listed here) must be met. For example:
    1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must:
      • be an early career researcher 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) and
      • have at least 50% protected time for research

Evaluation Criteria

  • Research Approach
  • Originality of the Proposal
  • Applicant
  • Impact of Research
  • Quality of the Research Environment

Key Dates

For full information and details about this competition, including how yo apply, please visit the ResearchNet page. Deadlines are linked above in the ATM Calendar.