CIHR Internal Assessment - Report for the 2011 International Review

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Conclusion

CIHR's first 10 years were highly creative, characterized by a variety of novel approaches and funding mechanisms and sustained by unprecedented budgetary growth. The challenge ahead will be to sustain the organization's dynamism and creativity in the period of budgetary restraint that is likely to stem from the current economic downturn.

In its Roadmap for 2009–2014, CIHR has applied learning from its first 10 years and kept the spirit of imagination and innovation while attempting to reduce some of the complexity that had arisen from its rapid growth. It will focus its research priorities, simplify its program offerings, reform its peer review system, reduce the number of small initiatives, and emphasize ambitious, multi-institute and partnered initiatives. These ambitious new research initiatives will require closer collaboration among institutes, increased buy-in from public and private partners and larger involvement of health research users. These actions, in turn, will require increased openness (particularly towards the provinces) and greater nimbleness on the part of CIHR.

CIHR will continue to insist on scientific excellence and potential for impact in all the research that it funds. It will support the training and career development of the next generation of researchers. Through increased interaction with health professionals, health system managers and policy makers, CIHR will prove the value that health research holds in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, in sustaining and improving a high-quality and affordable health care system, and in developing public policy informed by evidence. It will assist in the transfer of discoveries with commercial potential from invention to industrial development. Through improved reporting on the outcomes and impacts of its funding, CIHR will convince Canadians of the economic and social value of continuing investment in health research. The guidance of the second International Review Panel will be vital to CIHR's success over the next challenging but exciting five years.

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

List of Institutes

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2011-08-02