ARCHIVED - Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.1 – Health Knowledge, 1.2 – Health Researchers, 1.3 – Health Research Commercialization, and 1.4 – Health and Health Services Advances

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants for research projects and personnel support

Start date: October, 2000

End date: N/A

Description:

CIHR provides a wide array of funding programs under this transfer payment program. This includes grant programs which are programs that provide support for the direct costs of research projects, for the training of researchers, or for activities that support the translation of research findings. Other programs provide direct salary and stipend support to individual researchers/scientists and research trainees.

Expected results:

• Health research advances knowledge
• Health research is conducted and translated
• A strong and talented health research community with the capacity to undertake health research
• Commercial activity-products (patents and intellectual property), companies and employment generated
• Translation and use of health research takes place as a result of effective funding programs, which can lead to benefits to Canadians

Performance Indicators:

• Outputs and impacts of CIHR funded research
• Number of publications from CIHR supported research per million dollars funded
• Number, types and share of PhD, graduates in Canada compared to international levels
• Number and fields of investigators and trainees funded

(in millions of dollars)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	844.1	842.9	813.3	809.0
Total Transfer payments	844.1	842.9	813.3	809.0

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.2 – Health Researchers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Tri-Council: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Start date: 2003-04

End date: N/A

Description:

Administered by CIHR, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). CIHR's portion of the tri-agency class grants Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) program provides financial support to develop future health researchers at both the Masters and Doctoral levels in all health related fields in Canada, providing them with an opportunity to gain research experience.

Expected results:

• Increased capacity to meet demand for highly qualified personnel in the academic, public and private sectors.

Performance Indicators:

• Percentage of recipients completing degrees
• Average completion rates versus general population
• Average time to degree completion among recipients versus general population

(in millions of dollars)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	35.8	36.3	28.3	21.3
Total Transfer payments	35.8	36.3	28.3	21.3

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.3 – Health Research Commercialization

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Tri-Council: Networks of Centres of Excellence

Start date: October, 2000

End date: N/A

Description:

The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program is a federal class grants program administered jointly by CIHR, with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in partnership with Industry Canada. Networks are not-for-profit corporations with an established Board of Directors and are unique partnerships among the academic, private, public and not-for-profit sectors. These nation-wide, multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral partnerships connect excellent research with industrial know-how and strategic investment. Networks put in place well-defined strategies to transfer knowledge to users—ensuring that discoveries and technological advances are turned into social and economic benefits for all Canadians.

Expected results:

• World-class Networks and Centres connect leading-edge research with industrial know-how and strategic investment
• Strong linkages and partnerships created between university, government and industry, and other users (NGOs), resulting in the transfer of knowledge and exploitation of leading-edge research results with economic or societal benefits to Canada.

Performance Indicators:

Significant demonstration of impacts (i.e. Number of patents, licenses, copyrights, number of new products or processes, policies influenced or created, health delivery influenced stemming from networks and centres).

(in millions of dollars)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	27.5	27.5	27.5	25.0
Total Transfer payments	27.5	27.5	27.5	25.0

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.4 – Health and Health Services Advances

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Institute Support Grants

Start date: October, 2000

End date: N/A

Description:

The Institute Support Grant program provides funding to select Canadian academic institutions, including universities and teaching hospitals, to assist them in hosting the 13 Institutes of CIHR. The Institutes help CIHR maintain strong ties to Canada's research communities and to understand their needs. Each CIHR-appointed Institute Director is among the top scientists in his/her field. Institutes help CIHR define its strategic health research priorities and develop research partnerships with other interested parties concerned with health research. Institutes also organize conferences, seminars, and workshops, all with the goal of developing and disseminating health-related knowledge and best practices.

Expected results:

• Effective domestic and international health research agendas as well as alliances and partnerships in areas related to the mandate of each Institute.

Performance Indicators:

• Evidence of Institute's emerging leadership within the Canadian research and research user community, including examples of Institute innovation in identifying and responding to national and international health threats and opportunities.

(in millions of dollars)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	13.0	13.0	13.0	13.0
Total Transfer payments	13.0	13.0	13.0	13.0

Strategic Outcome: A world-class health-research enterprise that creates disseminates and applies new knowledge across all areas of health research.

Program Activity: 1.2 – Health Researchers

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Tri-Council: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

Start date: 2008-09

End date: N/A

Description:

Administered by CIHR, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by offering them a significant financial award to assist them during their studies at Canadian universities. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health-related fields.

Expected results:

• Contribute to making Canada a more attractive destination for international students and making Canada's scholarship initiatives more internationally competitive.

Performance Indicators:

• Percentage of foreign Vanier candidates put forward by universities
• Recipients' perception of Canada as an attractive destination for research

(in millions of dollars)

	Forecast Spending 2009-10	Planned Spending 2010-11	Planned Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13
Total grants	2.8	5.5	8.4	8.4
Total Transfer payments	2.8	5.5	8.4	8.4