Facts and Figures

• had expenditures of $974.1M;
• supported nearly 12,000 health researchers and trainees at 280 research institutions in every province of Canada;
• received 3625 applications from the Open Operating Grants Program competitions, of which 2384 were considered very good or excellent by peer review, and of which 816, or just over one-third of the applications considered very good or excellent, were funded;
• provided open operating grants to researchers with an average value of $119,000;
• had 311 partnership agreements with 247 partners;
• benefited from 2,400 peer reviewers donating an average of 15 days work to assess research proposals (equalling 36,000 days of donated work);
• held 24 Café Scientifiques, bringing researchers together with the public; and
• reached 21,842 students through its Synapse youth engagement program.

Over its lifetime, CIHR has:

• established more than 830 partnership agreements with over 400 organizations;
• leveraged more than $716.2M in additional funding for CIHR-led health research; and 
• established international linkages¹ with researchers from more than 50 countries.

In this section:

• Cross-Canada Presence
• Atlantic Canada
• Quebec
• Ontario
• The Prairies
• British Columbia

1: International linkages includes any funded grants where at least one of the research team members declared that they belong to a primary institution and/or research institution outside Canada and includes any awards held by awardees whose primary institution and/or research institution was declared as being outside Canada. It also includes all funded grants/awards on a predefined list of international initiatives.