Soutien à la recherche et concours HIV Implementation Science – Component 1 - CIHR (EN/FR)

This initiative address the gap that exists in the application of evidence into health policy and programs. The goal of the initiative is to reduce the incidence of HIV, Hep C (HCV) and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) within and across key populations in Canada.

Teams supported through this initiative will meaningfully engage decision makers, community leaders and researchers from different research disciplines. Together, these multi-sectoral teams will focus on the identification, adaptation and equitable scale-up of promising or effective interventions for populations in greatest need and across diverse settings/contexts. By integrating expertise and skills from different sectors and disciplines, teams will contribute important knowledge regarding program design and implementation and address ‘real-world’ programming issues and challenges faced by decision makers, communities and service providers across Canada.

Two complementary funding opportunities have been developed within the framework of the initiative:

• Component 1 – Adaptation Grants: will support the development of multi-sectoral teams, identification of promising or effective interventions and the development of multi-faceted programs through intervention adaptation.
• Component 2 – Implementation Grants: will support multi-sectoral teams in multi-year investigations of program implementation and scale-up across multiple heterogeneous communities.