CIHR's Knowledge Translation Branch & Health Canada’s Strategic Policy Branch Announce the New Science Policy Fellowships Program

(2011-05-06) Here is your chance to learn about and have an impact in the policy world. Contribute to bringing evidence to inform health policy. Understand how evidence informed decision making works. We are offering fellowships for "embedded" researchers in the Health Canada policy world.

The new and exciting Funding Opportunity launched on April 18, 2011 as a pilot project, with the objective of providing highly qualified candidates at the doctoral, post-doctoral, new investigator and mid-senior investigator stages of health research with the opportunity to learn more about current Canadian health policy activities and the science/policy interface.

The CIHR KT Branch has partnered with the Health Canada Strategic Policy Branch to help foster positive exchanges between health researchers and policy makers, helping to bridge the gap between the worlds of science and policy making. The CIHR KT Branch and the Health Canada Strategic Policy Branch will provide support through short-term policy assignments at Health Canada for highly qualified individuals who are engaged in health research to participate in and contribute to the policy making processes while learning first-hand about the intersection of science and policy.

The stipend levels vary according to career stage:

• Doctoral: $35,000 per annum, pro-rated monthly for up to 6 months; 
• Post-doctoral: $45,000 per annum, pro-rated monthly for up to 6 months; 
• New Investigator: $60,000 per annum, pro-rated monthly for up to 6 months; 
• Mid-Senior Investigator: $80,000 per annum, pro-rated monthly for up to 6 months.

Application deadline: June 1, 2011
Funding start date: September 1, 2011

To learn more about the intersection of science and policy, you can watch a video featuring Drs. Graham and Charest.

For more information, please refer to this funding opportunity and/or contact Jasmine Lefebvre, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist at 613-952-8965 or by e-mail at jasmine.lefebvre@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.