Soutien à la recherche et concours Operating Grant : Population Health Intervention Research - CIHR (EN/FR)

Program and policy interventions are unfolding and evolving constantly across the country both within and outside the health sector (such as education, transportation, social services, and the arts) and are often planned and funded by community, not-for-profit, private, and/or public organizations. These “natural experiments” often lack the embedded mechanisms for assessing processes and outcomes, sharing lessons learned, and applying this knowledge to new program and policy decisions. As a result, they represent a rich but untapped collection of potential interventions that could benefit from researcher expertise and study.

The purpose of this funding opportunity (FO) is to support research on timely interventions (e.g. programs, policies, social enterprises and resource distribution approaches) that have been initiated by others (e.g., policy makers, practitioners, communities) and have the potential to impact health and health equity at the population level. Population health intervention research involves the use of scientific methods to produce knowledge that attempts to capture the value, cost and differential effects of these interventions, the processes by which they bring about change and the contexts within which they work best.  Researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers are encouraged to work together to build the evidence base to support policy and program development and decision-making in health and other sectors.