CIHR-IDRC Team Grants: Monkeypox Rapid Research Response

Details

Opportunity Name	Monkeypox Rapid Research Response
Agency	Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the International Development Research Centre’s Global Health Division
Value	Up to $3,000,000
Indirect Costs	Ineligible
Duration	Up to 2 years

Deadlines

Notify faculty and SIRI of intention to apply	08-12-2022
EOI due at agency	08-16-2022
Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review	08-23-2022
Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review	08-30-2022
Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due to SIRI for mandatory review	09-06-2022
Application due at agency	09-07-2022

Objective

• Provide rapid evidence to inform clinical and health system management and public health response, and/or decision-making and planning within and across jurisdictions in Canada and internationally; 
• Undertake robust, multi-country cross learning, and comparative research (including in collaboration with other international researchers where appropriate) on: 
  • the safety and real-world effectiveness of medical or other countermeasures deployed* (including vaccines and therapeutics) to treat and/or prevent monkeypox infections in people in Canada and globally; and 
  • the underlying serological histories and transmission dynamics of the current monkeypox outbreaks in Canada and globally (including time of exposure and transmission during asymptomatic phase, mechanisms of human-to-human transmission, and key risk factors for infection and transmission); 
• Align with and contribute to the WHO Global Clinical Platform for monkeypox and other international monkeypox surveillance and research coordination activities by: 
  • adopting WHO case investigation and reporting forms; 
  • developing robust study protocols that can be integrated and harmonized with international clinical datasets; and 
  • contributing to global real-time sharing and analyses of research findings across different study contexts.

Please note that medical countermeasures against monkeypox (including vaccines, drugs and other therapeutic agents) will not be provided by the Government of Canada for research supported through this funding opportunity. 

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Eligibility

The eligibility criteria below must be met for an application to be eligible: 

1. The Research Team must be co-led by: 
   1. A Canada-based Nominated-Principal Applicant (NPA) who is an independent researcher affiliated with an eligible Canadian institution at the time of application deadline; AND 
   2. An Africa-based Principal Applicant (PA) who is a researcher (citizen or permanent resident of an African country/territory) based in an African institution and residing in an African country/territory where the research is proposed. 
2. The Nominated Principal Applicant must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term. 
3. The Institution Paid must be authorized to administer CIHR funds before the funding can be released (for more information see Administration of Funds). 
4. The Canadian Nominated Principal Applicant (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. Select and complete the training module most applicable to your project. The Africa-based Principal Applicant must have successfully completed the Government of Canada’s Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) course and submit a Certificate of Completion. 
5. For applications that include or involve First Nations, Inuit, Métis and/or Urban Indigenous communities, the research team must include: 
   1. At least one PA (may be the NPA) who self-identifies as First Nations, Inuit or Métis and/or can provide evidence of having meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples. These participants are required to provide a maximum 1-page statement describing how the participant meets the criteria of self-identification and/or meaningful and culturally safe engagement. See the How to Apply section for more details;
      OR 
   2. An Indigenous Elder and/or an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper identified on the application as a Principal Knowledge User, Knowledge User or Collaborator. 

An individual cannot submit more than one application to this funding opportunity as an NPA. If the NPA submits more than one application, CIHR will automatically withdraw the last application(s) submitted based on timestamp of submission.

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How to Apply

To signal your intent to apply and to book a one-on-one meeting, please contact Diana Frasca, Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives Specialist, in the Office of Research Services, by e-mail (dfrasca@yorku.ca). 

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.

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For specific questions, please contact your FSc Research Officer