IGH Initiatives
National Women’s Health Research Initiative
As announced in Budget 2021, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Institute of Gender and Health, and Women and Gender Equality Canada are pleased to announce the launch of the National Women’s Health Research Initiative.
IGH-specific initiatives
IGH spearheads several initiatives that fall under our 2018 Strategic objectives: Integration, Innovation and Impact.
- Travel Award: CIHR-IGH 2025 Summer Institute in Sex and Gender+ Science
- Trainee Travel Award: 2024 OSSD Meeting
- Community-Led Research on LGBTQIA/2S Wellness
- Sex as a Biological Variable Supplement: COVID-19
- Sex and Gender Science Chairs
- SGBA+ Health Policy-Research Partnerships
- Women’s Health Clinical Mentorship Grant
- Indigenous Gender and Wellness Initiative
- Advancing Boys' and Men's Health Research
- Sex and Gender Champions
Cross-cutting initiatives
The Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) partners with other CIHR Institutes, other government agencies, national and provincial funding organizations, health charities, non-governmental organizations and industry on several key funding initiatives. These initiatives include:
- Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA)
- Canadian Epigenetics, Environment and Health Research Consortium (CEEHRC)
- Canadian Microbiome Initiative
- Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
- Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) and Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (I-HeLTI)
- Healthy Cities Research Initiative (HCRI)
- Health System Impact Fellowship
- 100 Years of Insulin: Accelerating Canadian Discoveries to Defeat Diabetes
- Inflammation in Chronic Disease
- Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR)
- Transitions in Care
Archived initiatives
- Healthy and Productive Work (2015-2021)
- Impact of Gender on Knowledge Translation Intervention (2017-2020)
- Sex as a Biological Variable (2018-2020)
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