Partner Linkage Tool for the Team Grants: Strengthening Resilient & Equitable Public Health Systems (STEPS)

Overview

The Team Grants: Strengthening Resilient & Equitable Public Health Systems (STEPS) will generate actionable evidence to build resilient and equitable public health systems (PHS) and support robust decision-making that enhances health equity and population health. The team grants will support solutions-focused research on:

• The building blocks of PHS within the public sector (federal, provincial, territorial (FPT), municipal or Indigenous governments) - and/or
• The role of the community sector (community-based, non-profit organizations) in strengthening the building blocks of PHS

Building blocks of PHS refer to: public health governance, finance and workforce arrangements; policies and service delivery models; data, information systems and technologies (adapted from the Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in Canada 2021).

Objectives

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity (FO) are to:

• Generate actionable evidence
• Identify, test, and/or evaluate promising system-level solutions (e.g., policies, practices, structures, standards, models or frameworks)
• Build capacity
• Foster knowledge mobilization

Partner Linkage Tool

To achieve the objectives of this FO, research teams will employ a tripartite co-leadership model comprised of at least one: lead researcher, decision-/policy-maker, and public health practitioner and/or community representative. The team will collaborate to ensure the research is meaningful, relevant, and actionable for public health systems work within the community sector (i.e., community-based organizations, non-profit, non-governmental) or the public sector (i.e., government public health institutions, such as federal health agencies and departments, provincial and territorial ministries of health, Indigenous health organizations, municipal health authorities, and national and provincial public health organizations and associations).

This Partner Linkage tool (below) is intended to facilitate connections between and across people (researchers, decision-/policy-makers, practitioners, community representatives, etc.) and organizations (community sector or public sector, as defined above) who are interested in collaborating to advance shared public health systems goals through research and knowledge mobilization. The Partner Linkage Tool includes information of people and organizations interested in partnering and their priorities of interest.

This is not a mandatory tool. Information is provided on a volunteer basis and does not confer any advantages in the evaluation and funding of applications. Applicants may also pursue opportunities with people/organizations that are not profiled below, but that meet the definition of the public sector or community sector as defined in the funding opportunity.

By completing and submitting this form, you are consenting to having your responses posted, and in the language in which it was submitted (English or French). You may request to have your information edited or removed at any time by sending a request to support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.

Date modified:

2025-04-03