CLSA Funding

Data Collection and Biomarker inclusion

2021 to 2027: Continued implementation of the approved CLSA protocol ($52M), including data collection for more than 50,000 participants for the period of 2021 to 2027. This six-year period will allow the team to collect data for the third follow-up (2021-2024) and the fourth follow-up (2024-2027).

Total amount funded by CIHR: $132,606,000

2015 to 2021: Continued implementation of the approved CLSA protocol ($52.8M), including data collection for all 50,000 participants for the period of 2015 to 2021. This six-year period will allow the team to collect data for first follow-up (2015-2018) and second follow-up (2018-2021).
2008-2015: CLSA Team funded ($23.5 million) to support the Implementation Phase which includes the first wave of recruitment and baseline data collection from all 50,000 CLSA participants.

2006-2008: CLSA team funded ($2.1 million) to support Content Development and Validation
2004-2006: Conduct of CLSA: Methodological Feasibility Studies; Development and International Peer review of CLSA Protocol
2002-2004: Development and International Peer review of CLSA Protocol Design; CLSA Team funded ($1,744,000) to support the Methodological Feasibility Studies
2001-2002: CIHR Institute of Aging issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) entitled: Protocol Design for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The RFP was based on a CLSA Design Workshop held that same month in Aylmer, Quebec.; Launch and International Peer review of Request for Proposals, entitled: Protocol Design for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.; Meritorious CLSA team, headed by 3 principal investigators (Dr. Parminder Raina, McMaster University; Dr. Christina Wolfson, McGill University; and Dr. Susan Kirkland, Dalhousie University) funded ($462,000) to develop CLSA Protocol Design.