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CIHR Operating Grant: Evaluation of population-level interventions to reduce AMR

Research Admin Offices:

  • HRS

Funding Type:

Grant

Opportunity Type:

  • Grant

Value:

$150, 000 per year for up to two years.

Disciplines:

  • Health Sciences

Sponsors:

Deadlines:

Internal Deadline:

January 19, 2023

Sponsor Deadline:

February 2, 2023

Description:

This funding opportunity will support projects evaluating domestic or international population-level interventions to reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use and prevent the spread of resistant pathogens in humans, animals, and the environment. Interventions being evaluated could fall into, but are not limited to, the following seven categories:

  • Regulatory interventions establishing rules or principles of behaviour or practice, for example the introduction of stewardship policies or requirements for public disclosure of antibiotic use levels;
  • Guideline interventions that recommend or mandate practice, for example, national guidelines on antimicrobial prescribing or preferred treatment for resistant infections in humans, animals and the environment;
  • Communication interventions that use print, electronic, telephonic or broadcast media, for example education campaigns to inform the public about antimicrobial resistance or appropriate antibiotic use in humans, animals and the environment;
  • Legislation interventions that make or change laws, for example laws requiring medical prescriptions for all antibiotic sales;
  • Service provision interventions such as the introduction of funding for specific stewardship goals or programs;
  • Environmental/social planning interventions that design or control the physical or social environment; or
  • Fiscal interventions that use the tax system or other financial measures to reduce or increase financial costs, for example the introduction of pay-for-performance programs.

Projects focused on animal or environmental health must include a human health component and demonstrate the impacts on human health. Research focused exclusively on animal or environmental health with no link to human health are not eligible. Research supported through this funding opportunity is expected to demonstrate how results can inform the development of population-level interventions to reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use and prevent the spread of resistant pathogens in the Canadian context.

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Additional Details. 

Contact:

If applying from the Faculty of Health Sciences, unless otherwise indicated, you no longer need to send documents to HRS Intake. Your first point of contact is your assigned Senior Grants Advisor.