Goodhand, Peter C

$5,000,000.00 CAD

≈ 65 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Program
Research in Priority Areas
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2025-2026
Agreement period
August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2030
Reference
cihr-irsc:236-2025-2026-Q2-00341

Published purpose

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to: • Advance research to support more accurate data interpretation, diagnosis, and innovative solutions across healthcare through global cooperation in data sharing and clinical implementation of genomics. • Advance research to create improved frameworks and standards to enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and health-related data. • Promote and facilitate the integration of FAIR principles (WSC: #moreinformation) in data science research endeavours. • Advance implementation research to reduce both duplication of efforts and promote the collection of compatible research and clinical genomic data and health information to enable global sharing. • Identify areas of collaboration and resource/expertise sharing. • Enable national and global data sharing projects using large-scale cohorts to improve research into health and disease. • Strengthen research excellence and ensure maximum research impact through consideration of diverse biological and/or socio-cultural identity factors in research design, including diverse research methods such as those based in Indigenous ways of knowing.

In plain English AI-generated

This grant funds research in priority areas, specifically advancing global cooperation in genomic data sharing and clinical implementation to improve healthcare, with a focus on responsible data frameworks, FAIR principles, and inclusive research methods.

Category: Health Primarily funds activity in Canada

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