Details
| Opportunity Name | Catalyst Grant: Avian Influenza One Health Research |
| Agency | Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) |
| Value | Up to $150,000 |
| Indirect Costs | Ineligible |
| Duration | 1 year |
Deadlines
| Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 06-26-2024 |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 07-04-2024 |
| Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 07-09-2024, by 10:00AM |
| Application due at agency | 07-11-2024 |
Objective
To catalyze urgent research that addresses evidence gaps related to the current outbreaks of HPAI. In alignment with the concept of One Health endorsed by the Quadripartite Organizations’ One Health Joint Plan of Action, this funding opportunity will support research activities at the interface of human, animal (including domestic and wildlife), and environmental systems, that is inclusive of diverse perspectives and approaches including Indigenous ways of knowing. The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
- Enable researchers to rapidly generate interdisciplinary, high-quality and real-time evidence that can enhance Canada’s response related to the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1);
- Support cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary research collaborations that can support One Health* approaches to sustainably prevent, prepare for, and respond to the current outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1);
- Support rapid mobilization of evidence to support knowledge users including policy-makers, clinicians, public health organizations, animal health professionals, representatives from agricultural sectors, wildlife conservation organizations, and local communities, including Indigenous communities, where relevant.
Eligibility
For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:
- The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be one of the following:
- an independent researcher or a knowledge user, affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution and/or its affiliated institutions (including hospitals, research institutes and other non-profit organizations with a mandate for health research and/or knowledge translation).
- an individual affiliated with an Indigenous non-governmental organization in Canada with a research and/or knowledge translation mandate.
- a researcher or scholar working in a municipal, provincial or territorial government in Canada where the activity which forms the subject matter of the funding is not being funded by specific programs of those municipal, provincial and territorial governments.
- a Canadian non-governmental, not-for-profit organization (including community or charitable organizations) with a research or knowledge translation mandate.
- If you are a Canadian university researcher who is eligible to receive NSERC funds, you can apply on your own or as a team with co-applicants who are also eligible academic researchers
- The NPA must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
- The Institution Paid must be authorized to administer CIHR funds and/or NSERC funds by the funding start date.
- For laboratory based research with infectious H5 or H7 virus/samples, only researchers affiliated with already approved containment level 3 laboratories with the appropriate human and animal pathogen licences and authorizations in place are eligible to apply.
- The NPA must have successfully completed one of the sex- and gender-based analysis training modules available online through the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and submit a Certificate of Completion (see How to Apply section).
- For applications involving Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis), the team must include at least one applicant who self-identifies as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) and/or demonstrates a track record of meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples.
- Applicants must comply with CIHR’s Policy on Identical / Essentially Identical Applications (see Section 5.2 Application Administration Guide).
- Members of the Canada Biomedical Research Fund and Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund (CBRF/BRIF) should ensure that there is no overlap in funding as outlined in the CIHR Guidelines on Identical or Essentially Identical Applications, should they apply for this funding opportunity. If you have received funding for similar work as part of the CBRF/BRIF, please indicate how the scope of the current application does not overlap with this work, and how this application is leveraging the CBRF resources.
How to Apply
York University researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency. For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature. Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed ORS checklist to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here.