IMHA Funding

The Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) funds health research in order to develop and support a well-trained base of investigators with the skills and expertise needed to design and conduct innovative and diverse research and knowledge translation activities aimed at improving health.

Current funding opportunities

Funding opportunities in progress (application deadline passed)

  • Health System Impact (HSI) Program
  • CDF Innovation Grants
  • CIHR-IMHA Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes
  • Planning and Dissemination Grants - ICS
  • Other : Network Grants in Skin Health, Bone Health and Muscular Dystrophy

    This funding opportunity will provide support to create three networks: one in the area of Skin Health, one in the area of Bone Health and one in the area of Muscular Dystrophy. The aim of these networks will be to provide research leadership, stimulate innovative research and practices, strengthen research capacity, and provide a forum that engages the research community and its partners (including but not limited to industry, charities, and patients and their carers). The networks are expected to be national in scope, multidisciplinary and multi-thematic; and to foster collaborations, effective interactions, and scientific excellence.

  • Other : Planning Grants for Implementing Healthy Urban Policy

    The CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative (HCRI) is a major initiative led by the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) in collaboration with the Institute of Aging (IA), Institute of Gender and Health (IGH), Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health (IIPH), Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA), and Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD). HCRI is designed to deepen Canada's scientific leadership in planning, designing and building healthy cities. Achieving the goal of leadership in the science of healthy cities requires partnership across many sectors and all levels of government.

  • CIHR-IMHA Intensive Grant Writing Masterclass 2023

    The CIHR-IMHA Intensive Writing Masterclass aims to nurture research leaders by developing writing skills, fostering writer identity and strengthening the writing community.

  • Transforming Health with Integrated Care (THINC) - Implementation Science Teams Grants

    Transforming Health with Integrated Care (THINC) Implementation Science Team (IST) Grants focus on improving our understanding of how to implement, evaluate, and spread/scale (share) transformative evidence-informed integrated care policies and interventions towards advancing the Quadruple Aim and health equity (sometimes known as the Quintuple Aim). The IST Grants are a major component of the THINC research initiative, which is led by CIHR's Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR) in collaboration with multiple institutes, initiatives, and partners.

  • Arthritis Society: Stars Career Development Award

    The Stars Career Development award was created to help firmly establish the career of early and mid-career investigators. This salary and research funding represents a three (3) year commitment by the Arthritis Society and CIHR-IMHA, together with an additional three (3) year commitment by the applicant’s Host Institution. The program provides funding to support research programs aligned with the Arthritis Society's 2020-2025 Research Strategy. The Arthritis Society will be accepting applications relevant to five research priority areas: arthritis pain, OA, IA, childhood and work.

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  • Team Grant: Healthy Cities Implementation Science (HCIS) Team Grants (Healthy Cities Implementation Science (HCIS) Team Grants)

    The Healthy Cities Implementation Science (HCIS) Team Grants funding opportunity is offering grants focused on increasing our understanding of how to design, implement and promote the systematic and equitable uptake of evidence-based interventions (i.e. interventions that have been piloted or tested in a setting and found to be promising) in multiple urban environments to improve population health and well-being.

Funding decisions

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