Canadian Institutes of Health Research

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's 2021-2031 Strategic Plan outlines a roadmap to achieve the best health for all Canadians, powered by outstanding research. It focuses on five key priorities: advancing research excellence in all its diversity, strengthening Canadian health research capacity, accelerating the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples in health research, pursuing health equity through research, and integrating evidence into health decisions. The plan envisions Canadian health research as internationally recognized, inclusive, collaborative, transparent, culturally safe, and focused on real-world impact, leading to ground-breaking discoveries and equitable health outcomes, particularly for Indigenous communities.

The National Inuit Strategy on Research (NISR) aims to transform research relationships and practices to respect Inuit self-determination, address historical exploitation, and ensure research benefits Inuit communities. It outlines coordinated actions across five priority areas: advancing Inuit governance in research, enhancing ethical conduct, aligning funding with Inuit priorities, ensuring Inuit access, ownership, and control over data, and building capacity in Inuit Nunangat research. The strategy envisions research producing new knowledge that empowers Inuit and serves as a building block for strong public policies and optimal outcomes for all Canadians.

The Inuit Tuberculosis Elimination Framework is designed to guide the development of regional action plans to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) among Inuit in Canada. The framework prioritizes enhancing TB care and prevention, reducing poverty and improving social determinants of health, empowering communities, strengthening TB care capacity, developing Inuit-specific solutions, and ensuring accountability for TB elimination. It aims to reduce the rate of TB by 50% by 2025 and eliminate it by 2030 through collaborative, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive approaches.

The CIHR Strategic Plan 2021-2031 focuses on accelerating the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples in health research. Key areas of focus include removing administrative barriers to research funding for Indigenous Peoples and communities, strengthening Indigenous research capacity development through training and mentoring, and improving the spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples.

The CIHR Strategic Plan 2021-2031 is dedicated to achieving the best health for all through outstanding research. It prioritizes improving the health of all people in Canada and ensuring access to high-quality research. The plan commits to fair peer review, investing in both priority-driven and investigator-initiated research, and retaining Institutes as part of the CIHR model. Key areas of focus include advancing research excellence, strengthening Canadian health research capacity, accelerating self-determination for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples in health research, pursuing health equity, integrating evidence in health decisions, and ensuring organizational excellence.