Rampersaud, Y.Raja

Published purpose

The “Catalyst Grant: Addressing Musculoskeletal Conditions and Arthritis in Canadians” is expected to: • Support original, high quality projects that have the potential to generate innovative research, research tools, techniques, devices, inventions, or methods that will translate into a clinical or health services improvement for Canadians within 5-7 years; • Facilitate team formation and build patient-oriented research capacity by encouraging partnerships amongst patients, patient communities, patient organizations and health charities, researchers, health care professionals and health system decision makers or policy makers; • Generate preliminary observations, data or knowledge to stimulate research in areas where there is a substantial burden of disease in musculoskeletal conditions and arthritis in Canada, as identified by the respective communities.