About the Collaborative Partnership

Since late 2005, several individuals and organizations have come together to explore the possibility of developing a collaborative approach to increasing the quality and quantity of population health intervention research with relevance to policy and practice. This emerging collaboration culminated in a national think tank workshop in September 2006, which engaged over 50 participants from across Canada to work towards a common understanding of population health intervention research and to commit to moving this broad initiative forward, on behalf of and with, the population and public health community in Canada. PHIRIC was viewed as a vehicle – a platform – to bring coherence to and strengthen existing and emerging relevant initiatives.

The partners represent researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in academia, research funding agencies, non-governmental and governmental organizations.  Those guiding PHIRIC bring to the table not only complementary knowledge, skills and expertise but links to important networks to further align our intervention research capacity building efforts in Canada. Since the national think tank was held, other organizations have been invited to join the planning committee to increase the breadth of perspectives guiding PHIRIC and to facilitate further engagement in this initiative.

PHIRIC Planning Committee (as of January 2012)

• Canadian Institute for Health Information - Canadian Population Health Initiative
• CIHR - Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism & Diabetes
• CIHR - Institute of Population and Public Health 
• Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, University of Waterloo
• Institut national de santé publique du Québec 
• Public Health Agency of Canada  
• Social Research and Demonstration Corporation 
• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
• Research and policy community

IPPH Secretariat

• CIHR-IPPH personnel

For information please contact: ipph-ispp@uottawa.ca