PHSI Partnerships

Through partnerships with key stakeholders, CIHR is striving to support internationally competitive research initiatives that produce timely, high quality evidence with near term improving effects on the Canadian health care system and the health of Canadians. Partnerships are about shared vision, common objectives and alignment of priorities and programs. Partnerships are also critical to making more effective use of resources for research and are key to any successful knowledge translation strategy. In keeping with that spirit of collaboration and common vision and objectives, this strategic funding initiative involves partnerships between researchers, users of research, and funders of research.

In addition to CIHR and its Institutes and Branches, two types of partnerships are part of the PHSI program:

1. Project-specific Partners

Eligible applicants may obtain contributions (cash and or in-kind) from partners that they identify themselves with and with whom they negotiate. Such partners could be universities, foundations, voluntary health charities, provider associations, other provincial government departments including departments of provincial governments not listed as competition partners, or the private sector.

For information purposes only, a list of project-specific partners active in the last PHSI competition is provided in the Partner/Collaborator Description of the 2007 PHSI RFA.

2. Competition Partners

CIHR has negotiated competition partnerships with a number of health research funding agencies, Ministries or Departments of Health, and other stakeholders that have expressed an interest in supporting this competition. These commitments are generally restricted either to researchers from, or working on issues that are a priority for, a particular province, or to research on a particular theme. Although many competition partners only support researchers from their own province, they may also consider supporting other researchers with multi-jurisdictional projects.

The following organizations and stakeholders committed their support to the 2009 PHSI competition:

CIHR and its Institutes and Branches