Health services and policy research investments

A portrait of Canada's investments, assets and resources from 2007/2008 to 2011/2012Footnote 1

Top 3 Canadian institutions funded in each of the 14 research themes

(in millions of dollars)

Note: Records of grants for centres or networks were classified as "Centre, network and infrastructure-related" so as to not skew results

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Access to Appropriate Care across the Continuum
Canada Total: $110.5
University of Alberta University of British Columbia "St. Michael's Hospital"
$14.4 $10.5 $5.3
Managing for Quality and Safety
Canada Total: $91.8
Cancer Care Ontario Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre McMaster University
$15.4 $11.1 $5.7
Linking Population and Public Health with Health Services
Canada Total: $72.7
University of Waterloo McGill University Dalhousie University
$23.2 $4.5 $3.1
Primary and Community-Based Healthcare
Canada Total: $67.8
University of Calgary University Health Network University of Western Ontario
$6.8 $5.1 $4.3
Patient-Centred Care
Canada Total: $56.2
McMaster University BC Cancer Agency Hospital for Sick Children
$4.9 $4.4 $3.5
Knowledge Translation/Implementation Science
Canada Total: $42.7
McMaster University Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre BC Cancer Agency
$5.0 $4.1 $3.6
Governance and Accountability
Canada Total: $29.3
Université de Montréal University of Toronto Cancer Care Ontario
$4.2 $3.4 $2.9
Health Human Resources
Canada Total: $21.4
University of Ottawa University of Toronto IWK Health Centre
$2.7 $2.5 $2.0
Drug Policy
Canada Total: $12.9
University of British Columbia McGill University Université de Montréal
$5.2 $1.7 $1.2
Health Information: Use of Administrative Databases
Canada Total: $12.5
University of Manitoba Alberta Health Services "St. Michael's Hospital"
$1.5 $1.2 $0.7
Health Care Financing and Funding/Health Economics
Canada Total: $12.1
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre University of British Columbia University Health Network
$1.6 $1.5 $1.4
Emerging Technology and Drugs (Technology Assessment)
Canada Total: $3.5
University of Alberta Université de Sherbrooke École polytechnique de Montréal
$1 $0.5 $0.4
Change Management/Scaling up Innovation
Canada Total: $2.6
Santé et services sociaux Québec McMaster University Université de Sherbrooke
$1.0 $0.5 $0.3
Centre, network and infrastructure-related
Canada Total: $217.6
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Quebec multi-centre research networks University Health Network
$29.5 $19.5 $18.1