Year 2003 Decisions
Building Healthy Communities Through Rural and Northern Health Research
CIHR and its partners are pleased to announce the launch of the RFA entitled "Building Healthy Communities through Rural and Northern Health Research". This RFA has evolved from extensive consultations on the development of a Canadian rural and northern health research strategic initiative.
The goal of this strategic initiative is to foster research on understanding and enhancing health, and health services and policy, in small and remote communities around three key research themes: (1) understanding and improving the health status of rural and northern populations, (2) designing health systems (services and policy) that work for small and remote communities and (3) knowledge translation - making health research more accessible and useable by rural/northern practitioners, policy-makers and citizens. At the same time, this RFA is an opportunity to develop and strengthen interdisciplinary research teams that are interested in healthy communities and in rural and northern health-related issues.
CIHR is pleased to announce the results of the Strategic Initiative in Rural Health. The table below identifies the number of applications received and approved under the Rural Health Initiative.
| CIHR | Applications Received | Applications Approved | Success Rate (%) |
| RURAL HEALTH [ HTML | PDF ] |
20 | 6 | 30% |
For further information about this program, please contact:
Alex Lamontagne B. Sc., M. A.
Program Coordinator / Coordonnateur des programmes
Health & Clinical Research Unit/
Recherche clinique et en santé
Canadian Institutes of Health Research/
Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
410 Laurier Ave. W., 9th Floor, Address Locator 4209A
Ottawa, ON Canada K1A 0W9
Tel: (613) 954-6054
Fax: (613) 952-2277
