Backgrounder: SPOR Networks in Chronic Disease
Backgrounder
SPOR – Putting Patients First in Canada
Patient-oriented research refers to a continuum of research that engages patients as partners, focuses on patient-identified priorities and improves patient outcomes.
Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research, or SPOR, is a national coalition dedicated to the integration of research into care. It aims to ensure that the right patient receives the right treatment at the right time.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) leads the strategy on behalf of the Government of Canada.
SPOR Networks
SPOR Networks are national collaborative research networks involving patients, researchers, policy makers, academic health centres, health charities, and other stakeholders. They focus on specific health challenges identified as priorities in multiple provinces and territories. They will address research priorities identified by patients and accelerate the translation of research findings into patient care and health care policy.
Funding for SPOR Networks in Chronic Disease
CIHR and partners have approved the funding of five SPOR Networks in Chronic Disease.
| Host Institution | Network |
|---|---|
| McMaster University (Hamilton, ON) |
Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects: the IMAGINE-SPOR Chronic Disease Network This network will look at how gut bacteria and diet cause inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome and at the anxiety and depression associated with these disorders. |
| McMaster University (Hamilton, ON) |
Chronic Pain Network This network will direct new research, train researchers and clinicians, increase access to care for chronic pain sufferers, and speed up the translation of the most recent research into the reality of care. |
| University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC) |
Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD) This network will improve care for people with kidney disease. It aims to reduce the number of people who need dialysis or organ transplants, or who develop related illnesses that are debilitating or deadly. |
| Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal, QC) |
CHILD-BRIGHT: Child Health Initiatives Limiting Disability- Brain Research Improving Growth and Health Trajectories This network will achieve brighter futures for children with brain-based developmental disabilities and their families by creating novel interventions to optimize development, promote healthy outcomes, and deliver responsive and supportive services across the life-course. |
| University Health Network and University of Toronto (Toronto, ON) |
SPOR Network in Diabetes and its Related Complications This network will transform the health outcomes of individuals with diabetes and its related complications. It will facilitate meaningful connections between primary healthcare providers, their patients, and specialists to achieve improved care and significant cost savings within the health system. |
Each network involves research institutions across the country. The networks will each receive funding of $12.45 million from CIHR for a total investment from the Government of Canada of $62.25 million over five years. An additional $126 million will be contributed by partners, including universities, hospitals, industry, health charities, and provincial agencies.
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