Ma, David W

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The goal of this funding opportunity is to deliver a national training initiative focused on building capacity among Canadian researchers to engage in high quality, impactful research on how to design, implement and scale innovative, solution-based interventions in a variety of urban contexts. With this goal in mind, the training initiative is expected to: •Build capacity across Canada among doctoral, post-doctoral and, as appropriate, Master’s level trainees and decision-maker partners, to further solution-based research and the science of implementing innovative, outcome-focused interventions that promote healthy, resilient, sustainable and equitable cities. •Incorporate diverse training approaches into innovative and cross-sectoral training programs that improve the mentoring and training environment for trainees. The training initiative should include a significant emphasis on ‘real-world’ experience, experiential training and professional training aimed at working with implementation partners and by leveraging components of the broader HCRI. •Deliver interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral training programs in order to support the development of collaborative, team research. Training programs must include experienced researchers and mentors from different disciplines to address major healthy cities issues and/or research challenges. The program must involve a collaboration of researchers working in areas that span across the Tri-Agency mandate to bring together researchers from the health sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, and the natural and engineering sciences. •Develop a community of mentors and experts, including researchers and practitioners, in designing and implementing innovative, solution-based interventions in variable urban contexts. •Establish opportunities for trainees and other training initiative participants to develop partnerships and collaborations across jurisdictions (municipal, provincial, federal, and Indigenous communities) and sectors (academic, public, private and non-profit). The training model should help establish and strengthen partnerships between trainees and a wide range of institutions and, in particular, leverage the partnerships and collaborations of the HCRI. •Develop diverse and well-rounded trainees and contribute to their career trajectories and research outcomes by enhancing interagency networking. • Develop diverse and well-rounded trainees and contribute to their career trajectories and research outcomes by enhancing interagency networking.