45 highly skilled researchers join health system organizations to help address pressing priorities and improve care for people in Canada
Canadians deserve access to high-quality health care. To achieve this, improvements often begin with research that examines how health care services are organized, regulated, managed, financed, and delivered.
Today, the Honorable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced an investment of over $4.3M to help transform Canada's health systems through the Health System Impact Program. This funding comes from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and partners, Michael Smith Health Research BC and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé.
The Health System Impact Program focuses on health system transformation to ensure that people in Canada have access to the highest quality care. Through this initiative, PhD trainees, postdoctoral researchers and early-career researchers will collaborate with health organizations across the country to lead projects aimed at generating evidence to improve Canada's health systems, services and policies. For the 2024 cycle, CIHR is supporting 25 PhD trainees and 20 postdoctoral researchers who are embedded in 34 health organizations and connected to 19 universities across Canada.
These researchers will address a variety of critical health system issues, including optimizing primary health care, improving quality in long-term care homes, supporting the health workforce, advancing equity in cancer care, leveraging digital health opportunities, predicting antimicrobial resistance using machine learning, mitigating the health impacts of climate change, ensuring cultural safety in health care, enhancing mental health services, and more.
