Health research is vital for improving people's health, advancing health equity, and strengthening Canada's health care systems. This is especially true of implementation science: research that seeks to support the uptake of evidence-based solutions by policymakers and health care providers to improve patient care and health outcomes.
Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Canada's Minister of Health, announced an investment of $26.6 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and partners that will bring researchers, policymakers, health care providers, and people with lived or living experience together to improve the health of people in Canada through integrated care policies and practices.
This investment will support 13 implementation science teams and a knowledge mobilization and impact hub that will address high priority health care challenges in Canada. The research teams will harness digital solutions to improve care in rural and remote regions, implement solutions to improve sexual health services delivered through pharmacies, improve the coordination of care for people with long COVID and chronic pain, support better mental health for equity deserving communities, and improve transitions from hospital to home for older adults, among other areas. The hub will foster coordination across the research teams and mobilize the research findings to increase their impact on the health and well-being of people and communities across the country.
CIHR is funding this research through its Transforming Health with Integrated Care (THINC) initiative in partnership with Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé, Research New Brunswick, Ontario Ministry of Health, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
The federal government will continue making investments like these that support science-based solutions to the challenges facing our healthcare system.
