Details
| Opportunity Name | Pandemic Research Platforms Interim Funding Opportunity |
| Agency | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) |
| Value | Up to $1,500,000/year |
| Indirect Costs | Ineligible |
| Duration | Up to 2 years |
Deadlines
Letter of Intent (LOI)
| LOI due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 11-21-2024 |
| LOI and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 11-28-2024 |
| LOI and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 12-03-2024, by 9:00AM |
| LOI due at agency | 12-05-2024 |
Final application
| Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 01-21-2025 |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 01-28-2025 |
| Final application and fully signed ORS checklist due at ORS for mandatory review | 01-31-2025, by 9:00AM |
| Application due at agency | 02-04-2025 |
Objective
The specific objectives are to support research platforms to:
- Collaborate with other experts and teams across Canada and internationally in their research area(s) to sustain research partnerships and ensure coordination of pandemic preparedness and response activities.
- Implement a plan to serve a broader, long-term pandemic preparedness and response role in the research ecosystem related to one of the research areas.
- Build and strengthen capacity in Canada to undertake interdisciplinary, equity-focused, multi-jurisdictional research related to pandemics and other infectious or communicable diseases with significant public health impacts.
- Rapidly generate and mobilize evidence to inform health emergency preparedness and response efforts by policy makers, clinicians, public health actors, the public and/or higher-risk communities in Canada.
Eligibility
For this funding opportunity, a research platform must already exist and is defined as a group or network of researchers undertaking and promoting interdisciplinary, collaborative research; and building a centralized core of expertise and resources (e.g., cohort, biobanks, databanks, tools, methodologies); and undertaking knowledge generation and mobilization in a thematic area extending beyond a single, time-limited project.
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.