The following letters of intent led to invitations to prepare a full proposal for CIHR`s Community Alliances for Health Research (CAHR) grant:
Aboriginal Healing and Wellness
Irv Rootman et al, Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto
Maximizing the health and quality of life of persons with dementia and their caregivers
Gloria Gutman et al, Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre
Public Involvement in Health System Decision Making
Jim Frankish et al, Institute for Health Promotion Research, UBC
Mid-life as a Foundation for Healthy Aging.
Allan Best, Jim Frankish et al, Institute for Health Promotion Research, UBC
Improving HIV prevention and health care deliveries and services for injection drug users (IDUs)
Godin, G. & Rouleau, D., Groupe de recherche et d'intervention en promotion de la santé de l'Université de Laval et al.
Reconceptualizing Community Health Service Delivery: A Tale of Two Regions.
Marcia Hills et al., Community Health Promotion Coalition, University of Victoria
Community Alliance for the Remodelling of Rural Health Systems: Taking Action on
Chronic Illness and Disability
Renee Lyons et al., Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, Dalhousie University
The following letters of intent led to invitations to apply for an Interdisciplinary Health Research Team (IHRT) grant:
Mid-life as a Foundation for Healthy Aging.
Jim Frankish et al, Institute for Health Promotion Research, UBC
Smoking Prevention and Cessation: A National Network
Roy Cameron, Paul McDonald, Roberta Ferrence, et al. Centre for Applied Health Research,
University of Waterloo, plus others at Universities of Toronto, British Columbia and Winnipeg.
Other Awards:
Gaston Godin at Université de Laval received a Senior Investigator Award out of the CIHR/NHRDP/SSHRC competition.
The Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre received a three-year post-doc position from the health career awards competition.
The Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre received an invitation from SSHRC to submit a
full proposal for a Community-University Research Alliance Grant (CURA):
Brain Gain: Increasing the Capacity of Rural Communities To Use Social Science Research
to Influence and Develop Policy
R. Lyons, AHPRC & Arthur Bull, NS Coastal Communities Network
Letter of intent to Health Canada's Rural and Remote Health Innovations Initiative invited to full
proposal stage:
"Aging Well in Rural Places: Development and Implementation of a Community Based
Strategy For Addressing Depression in Seniors in Atlantic Canada"
R. Lyons et al, AHPRC & Joan Lay at al, Canadian Pensioners Concerned NS
Letter of intent to SSHRC: Society, Culture and Health program was invited to submit a full
proposal:
"Ability of regional health authorities to address the non-medical determinants of health"
J. Frankish et al, Institute of Health Promotion Research.
The following Consortium members received CHSRF/CIHR Chair Awards in Health Services and Nursing Research:
Louise Potvin, Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en santé, Université de Montréal on the topic "Community Approaches and Health Inequities"
Nancy Edwards, Community Health Research Unit, University of Ottawa on the topic "Multiple Interventions in Community Health Nursing Care"