CIHR Health Research Training Investments
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) strives to ensure a strong foundation of future health research leaders, and is committed to offering programs that increase the supply of highly-qualified research personnel.
Since 2013, CIHR has invested nearly $2B to support health researcher training. This represents just over 18% of CIHR total research investments in that time.
CIHR funds training through a wide range of programs, including:
- Recurrent awards, such as Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master's and Doctoral, Vanier Doctoral award; Banting Fellowship, CIHR Fellowship, Health System Impact Fellowship.
- Innovative capacity building designs, such as Health Research Training Platform, Clinical Trials Training Platform, REDI Early Career Transition Award.
In 2022–23, CIHR invested $238.2M in the next generation of the Canadian health research workforce:
- $74.1M through direct awards (Training and Career Support and Research in Priority Areas funding envelopes) to 2,122 trainees.
- $145.7M to indirectly support trainees through stipends, as reported by CIHR grant holders (Investigator Initiated and Research in Priority Areas funding envelopes).
- $18.4M in training grants (Research in Priority Areas funding envelope) to platforms providing training and mentorship.
Supporting every stage of training, across CIHR's four pillars:
Figure 1: Direct and indirect training support in 2022–23 by stage, $M
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- Mixed stage $1.4
- Postdoctoral/post-degree $72.0
- Doctoral $76.0
- Undergraduate $13.4
- Master's $57.8
Figure 2: Direct and indirect training support in 2022–23 by pilar
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- 12% Social/Cultural/Environmental/Population Health
- 9% Health systems/services
- 18% Clinical
- 3% Not specified
- 58% Biomedical
Figure 3: Proportion of awarded applications that were cross-pillar in 2022–23
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- 34% cross-pillar
- 66% non-cross-pillar
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