Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative: components

The Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (I-HeLTI) consists of three (3) components. The first one is the Development Grants, the second one is the Team Grants, and the third is the Team Grant Cohort Research Study.

Development Grants

The Development Grants supported communities to come together with self-identified relevant organizations to establish needed expertise to support Indigenous-driven health research. These grants provide support for workshop preparation activities, community personnel support, and travel support to attend the Strengthening workshop.

The planning activities consisted of local and regional scanning to determine readiness, priority areas of interest and capacity within the community to conduct a research cohort. The Development Grants provided support for workshop preparation activities, community personnel support and travel support to attend the I-HeLTI Strengthening workshop held in Ottawa on June 11th and 12th, 2018.

Please contact I-HeLTI to receive a copy of the I-HeLTI Strengthening Workshop Report.

Team Grants

The Team Grants supports three (3) teams in building infrastructure and capacity along the continuum of care and prevention from pre-conception to pregnancy, infancy and early childhood with a life trajectory perspective. This research must be relevant to the following research areas: a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) life trajectory approach, a focus on the prevention of Non-Communicable diseases (NCD) and an intervention cohort design. The funded research teams will therefore collaborate to develop the partnerships, and leverage the necessary expertise and resources to establish this Indigenous-driven I-HeLTI DOHaD Intervention Cohort.

Team Grant – Cohort Research Study

The Team Grant Cohort supports the establishment of one (1) I-HeLTI Intervention Cohort Research Study, as well as an I-HeLTI Collaborating Centre to support the activities of the cohort research study. The I-HeLTI Collaborating Centre will steward the emerging I-HeLTI cohort, governance processes and data management. The I-HeLTI Collaborating Centre will also coordinate diverse components of the research and support the development and implementation of data management plans, while respecting Indigenous self-determination and Indigenous self-governance.

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