Exploring Theme: "IIPH Initiatives"

The Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) Program, an $100.8M investment over 16 years, has been developed to address those needs in capacity development, research and knowledge translation. The NEIHR Program is led by the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH) and co-led by the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH). This Program...

Under the leadership of IIPH, and in collaboration with IA, ICRH, IGH and IPPH, CIHR has developed the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI). HeLTI follows a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) approach, which explores how the interaction of environmental factors with genes prior to and during conception, pregnancy, infancy and early childhood impacts...

IIPH supports the CIHR Transitions in Care (TiC) Initiative (CIHR, 2019b), which is co-led by ICRH, IHDCYH, IHSPR, IIPH in collaboration with IA, ICR, IGH and IMHA. Transitions in care are when transfer of responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of patient care occurs among providers, institutions, and/or sectors (e.g., federal and provincial...

Along with other CIHR Institutes (i.e., IGH and IPPH), IIPH is supporting the development of the CIHR Indigenous Gender and Wellness Initiative. This community-led initiative will aim to explore how Indigenous perspectives on gender can improve social, physical and economic wellness of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles,...

Early Career Investigator Meetings, Community-Based Research Capacity-Building Workshops, and National Gathering of Graduate Students in Indigenous Health The IIPH Early Career Investigator Meeting (ECIM), and the Community-Based Research and Capacity-Building Workshop (CBRCBW) bring together Indigenous health researchers who are early in their careers with community members, established researchers, and partners from across IIPH mandate areas....

IIPH, IGH and the Canadian Nurses Foundation, in partnership with First Nations Health Authority, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), Research Manitoba, New Brunswick Health Research Foundation, Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation and Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, plan to support Research Chairs in Indigenous Health Nursing. This initiative is expected to: Support research...

Indigenous Peoples are unduly affected by neurodegenerative diseases causing dementia. In order to address this issue, and in collaboration with other CIHR Institutes and external partners, IIPH plans to invest in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). The external partners who plan to support this investment in CCNA are: Alberta Innovates, Alzheimer Society...

In addition to the various partnerships and collaborations already mentioned in this strategic plan, IIPH will work with international partners, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples around the globe. In December 2017, CIHR, the Health Research Council of New Zealand and the National Health and Medical...