In this section you will find a listing of upcoming funding and other opportunities for researchers. The list of opportunities focuses primarily on tobacco control and other chronic diseases.
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Health Canada Contribution Funding for Tobacco Products Regulatory Science Projects
Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme is offering contribution funding for Tobacco Products Regulatory Science for the 2008/09 fiscal year. The Contribution Funding will be available to support the development of new ideas and concepts to regulate tobacco products.
For more information, contact Mathew Cook, Office of Regulations and Compliance, Tobacco Control Programme, (613) 954-2375 or mathew_cook@hc-sc.gc.ca.
International Strategic Opportunities Program (ISOP)
Helping to connect researchers in Ontario with researchers around the world.
Applications: There will be no formal call for proposals for ISOP. Completed applications will be excepted on an ongoing basis and will be reviewed on a quarterly basis.
For further information about ISOP, please refer to the Ministry's website at www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/programs/ISOP/program.asp
NSERC Special Research Opportunity Program (SRO) - National or International Research
Objective: The Special Research Opportunity (SRO) program supports unique, emerging research opportunities that are timely, urgent, high-risk or have a strong potential for breakthrough that will be of substantial benefit to Canada. The program also supports pre-research activities to investigate and develop potential new collaborative projects necessary to respond to these national and international opportunities.
A special research opportunity may be undertaken by an individual or by a team of researchers. It may be specific to one discipline or interdisciplinary. It can be national or international in scope.
Canadian Conference on International Health Checking in: Health for All or Health for Some?
October 26-29, 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario. Visit the CCIH website for more details.
2008 Public Health Summit Making Healthy Communities Count. October 26-29 in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Visit Public Health Summit for details.
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit Conference
Tobacco Control in the 21st Century: Challenges in Research and Evaluation
November 10-12, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario.
Visit the OTRU website for further details.
CPHR/SPHERU Conference 2008 New Directions in Population Health Research Linking Theory, Ethics and Practice
November 12-14, 2008 in Regina, Saskatchewan. Visit SPHERU website for more details.
Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance National Conference
November 24-26, 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Visit the CDPAC website for more details.
14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health
Global Tobacco Control: Multi sectoral approach to Tobacco Control: Policies, Pathways, Partners and People
March 8-12, 2009 in Mumbai, India
Visit the WCTOH website for details.
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 15th Annual Meeting
April 27-30, 2009 in Dublin, Ireland
Rapid Response Deadline: Friday, January 9, 2009 Workshop Form: (click here)
The key lecturers for the 2009 program have been selected and are listed below:
Keynote
Peter Hajek, MA, PhD, CClinPsych, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine
Public Health and Epidemiology Theme Lecturer Geoffrey Fong, PhD, University of Waterloo
Clinical Theme Lecturer
Saul Shiffman, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Pre-Clinical Theme Lecturer
Rachel Tyndale, PhD, University of Toronto
Emerging Policy Theme Lecturer
Ken Warner, PhD, University of Michigan
For more details visit: http://www.srnt.org/meeting/2009/index.html
Learning Opportunities/Miscellaneous Resources
CDPAC Newsletter: The Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada has released its May 2008 Newsletter. Information includes news of CDPAC initatives, upcoming conference and funding opportunities as well general news about health promotion and disease prevention across Canada.
Tools to help organizations create, share and use research
This free online database of resources for health services organizations that wish to use research better is managed by the CHSRF. Each resource is gathered and assessed by the CHSRF to help organizations find, assess, interpret, and apply research evidence to inform health system policy and management decisions. The resources are classified per various phases — acquire, assess, adapt, and apply — to ensure relevant tools are easily available for the user.
By Lily Tsui, Community-University Partnership for
the Study of Children, Youth, and Families (CUP).
The handbook was created as a resource for those
interested in knowledge sharing among researchers, policymakers, service
providers, and the public.
Rapid Evidence Assessment Toolkit is a tool for getting on top of the available research evidence on a policy issue, as comprehensively as possible, within the constraints of a given timetable. The Toolkit has been designed as a web-based resource to enable Government Social Researchers to carry out or commission REAs and is available at Rapid Evidence Assessment.
WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 - The MPOWER package This landmark new report presents the first comprehensive worldwide analysis of tobacco use and control efforts. It provides countries with a roadmap to reverse the devastating global tobacco epidemic that could kill up to one billion people by the end of this century. The report outlines the MPOWER package, a set of six key tobacco control measures that reflect and build on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. To view the report, visit World Health Organization.
Mythbusters Teaching Resource for instructors of graduate- level classes. The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation’s new Mythbusters Teaching Resource focuses on teaching students how to write plain-language research summaries for policy makers, managers and others. User-friendly summaries of research evidence can be a way for researchers to effectively communicate actionable messages to policy makers, managers and others, particularly in cases where research results are unambiguous. The resource is available online at CHSFR Mythbusters.
For more web resources, go to the ICE June 2008 Newsletter. Click here.
Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement
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