Evidence for a Stronger Health Care System
Making health care better through research, collaboration, and evidence-informed action
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Evidence-Informed Health Care Renewal (EIHR) initiative is a major collaborative effort that aims to engage the research community and health care decision makers in meeting the challenges facing the health care system. The focus is on three areas: health care financing and funding models, health system sustainability, and governance and accountability.
EIHR’s objectives are to:
- Generate robust, timely and policy-relevant research
- Build capacity for research excellence
- Get research evidence into the hands of decision makers
EIHR is meeting these objectives through a suite of programs and funding opportunities designed to generate new knowledge, synthesize existing knowledge, build capacity, and facilitate knowledge translation.
These programs include:
- Partnerships for Health System Improvement – a funding opportunity that supports collaboration between researchers and knowledge users on research projects aimed at improving health systems.
- Best Brains Exchanges – one-day meetings that engage researchers and decision makers in provincial and territorial ministries of health in a dialogue about the research evidence pertaining to a topic that is of high priority.
- Healthcare Renewal Policy Analysis – a funding opportunity that supports the generation of robust health policy analyses and the development of policy options.
- EIHR Portal – a continuously updated, publicly accessible repository of evidence on health care renewal, transformation and innovation.
- Science-Policy Fellowships – a unique program that supports a researcher to be embedded within a policy environment. This program is aimed at helping to bridge the research and policy worlds.
- Expedited Knowledge Syntheses – a funding opportunity that supports the synthesis of existing evidence on priority topics areas in a shortened timeframe – just in time for decision making.
“Through the EIHR initiative, CIHR is demonstrating leadership in bringing the health care community in Canada together to respond to challenges, to identify and implement innovative new approaches to health care delivery, and to put this country’s health care system on the path to a solid, sustainable future,” says Dr. Robyn Tamblyn, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research.
Research Profiles
10 Health Care Myths Debunked – Using evidence to dispel common misconceptions of Canada’s health care system.
Café scientifique – "A penny saved is a lifetime earned: Changes in innovation and service delivery can help keep Canada’s public health care system affordable" - Toronto - October 30, 2012