Emerging Leaders Webinar and Workshop Series

The Emerging Leaders Series at CIHR-IMHA is designed to support learning and career development for a new generation of equitable and inclusive leaders in health research.

Participants will engage in a series of six educational panel sessions, webinars, and workshops, tailored to promote best practice and increase capacity in Indigenous Health Research, Open Science, Research Impact, Team Science, Patient Engagement, and Implementation Science methodologies across the CIHR-IMHA research communities. The series aims to drive meaningful advancements in health research that reflect diverse perspectives and address complex health challenges. Attendance at all six sessions is not compulsory; but we encourage people to join as many sessions as they can.

The series is particularly geared towards trainees, early-career researchers and patient partners. However, anyone involved in health research in Canada is welcome to attend. Find out more about each of the upcoming sessions by clicking on the links below.

  • Patient Engagement

    Overview

    As part of the Emerging Leaders series, the CIHR-IMHA Patient Engagement in Research Workshop aims to support postdocs and early career researchers in developing best practices for patient engagement in health research. However, all members of the research team are welcome to apply.

    Objectives

    The patient engagement workshop is designed to support researchers with the necessary skills and knowledge to feel more comfortable about the concepts and practice of patient engagement in research. The goal of the workshop is to foster best practices in patient engagement through exercises and interactive learning with patient partners that can be applied to research projects.

    More specifically, the objectives of this workshop are to:

    • Enhance researcher knowledge and understanding of patient engagement in research, where patients are partners on the research team, not volunteer participants in a study.
    • Increase researcher capacity to actively engage patient partners throughout a research project.
    • Develop researcher understandings of patient engagement best practices.
    • Outline challenges and opportunities for both patients and researchers regarding patient engagement I research.
    • Identify and explain where to find resources to facilitate your ongoing patient engagement efforts.

    Application

    The workshop is open to 50 attendees with a research background relevant to one of IMHA’s mandated areas. Eligible applications will be accepted in order of submission (first come, first served). Applications will be reviewed by CIHR-IMHA staff to ensure:

    • Applicant is involved in a health research project in Canada
    • Responses to the questions are relevant to patient engagement in health research

    Successful applicants will be notified within two weeks of submission.

    Please note that the workshop will be held in English. We encourage you to regularly check the CIHR-IMHA website for updates on the next workshop offering in the Emerging Leader series.

    Important Dates

    Application Deadline: September 18, 2024
    Workshop: October 2, 2024; 5:00-7:00PM ET

    If you would like to notify our team of any access or accommodation requirements, please reach out to: imha-iala@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.

    Apply by September 18, 2024, 11:59 PM, Eastern time

    Contact Information

    For all inquiries please contact the IMHA Mailbox at: imha-iala@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.

Alignment With the CIHR-IMHA Strategic Plan

The Emerging Leaders Workshop and Webinar Series aims to meet one of the priorities on IMHA’s strategic plan: ‘Nurture Leaders’. To support CIHR Strategic Plan Priority B, Strengthen Canadian Health Research Capacity, CIHR-IMHA will work with partners to foster leadership that is equitable, diverse and inclusive and that supports Indigenous self-determination in research. CIHR-IMHA will nurture diverse leaders from the higher education sector, industry, Indigenous communities and organizations, patient communities and the non-profit/government sector by providing education, opportunity, and mentorship for emerging leaders.

  • Catalyze research networks/teams within the CIHR-IMHA research mandate areas
  • Invest in early-career, mid-career, and under-represented researchers including those who identify as Black or Indigenous
  • Authentically engage people with lived experience, carers and members of the public in CIHR-IMHA-related research

About Inclusive Research Excellence

CIHR's 2021-2031 Strategic Plan Priority A, Strategy 1 aims to champion a more inclusive concept of research excellence, which includes developing and promoting a renewed perspective that values equity, diversity, and inclusion. CIHR launched a new Research Excellence Framework in June 2024.

The CIHR-IMHA Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes are a funding opportunity designed for relaunch on an annual basis. These prizes are intended to recognize outstanding completed research projects within the broad IMHA mandate across six cross-cutting research methodologies that match the six topics which will be covered in the Emerging Leaders Series. We have moved beyond traditional research boundaries to embrace inclusivity across Indigenous Health Research, Open Science, Research Impact, Team Science, Patient Engagement, and Implementation Science.

The prizes recognize contributions to fundamental knowledge creation, knowledge mobilization, diverse research methods, and outputs.

To learn more about Inclusive Research Excellence at IMHA, we encourage you to read the following blog with Artist Adriana Contreras, and Indigenous researcher and artist Michelle Buchholz, about developing an illustration to highlight different elements of this initiative and enable IMHA to embody inclusivity in future communications

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