Allen, Ryan

Published purpose

The mission of the CIHR-Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) is to improve the health of populations and promote health equity in Canada and globally through research and its application to policies, programs, and practice in public health and other sectors. The CIHR Institute for Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) will fund applications that are relevant to their mandate, relevant to CIHR’s definition of population health research (pillar 4 research), focused on meaningfully improving equitable health1 outcomes and aligned with one or more of the following IPPH strategic research areas: • Global Public Health: applications with a primary focus on “global health research” (as per CIHR’s definition) that improves global health equity for all. • Moving Upstream (structural determinants of health): applications with a primary focus on interdisciplinary research into the structural determinants of health to meaningfully address the root causes and systems that create health inequities in Canada and globally.