Renewed strategic plan positions Canada’s health research agency for the future
March 10, 2015 – Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Institutes of Health Research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) today launched a renewed strategic plan that will guide its activities over the next five years. The plan focuses on supporting innovation, forging new partnerships, and achieving better health for Canadians and a stronger health care system in Canada.
The plan, Health Research Roadmap II: Capturing Innovation to Produce Better Health and Health Care for Canadians, continues along the path set out in the first Roadmap, launched in 2009, and positions the organization to effectively respond to Canada’s future health challenges.
Under the plan, CIHR will work with its partners to invest in targeted initiatives in four priority areas:
- Improved patient outcomes
- Health and wellness for Aboriginal peoples
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- Improved quality of life for people living with chronic conditions
To ensure Canada’s health research community can address these priorities, CIHR will be guided by three strategic directions. First, CIHR will promote research excellence and innovation by improving the way it supports world-class researchers in their pursuit of cutting-edge ideas and by training the next generation of health researchers. Second, CIHR will work with its partners to mobilize research to produce new approaches and better results. Finally, CIHR will demonstrate the value of its investments to Canadians, ensuring they are at the centre of its decisions.
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened health care system for Canadians. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 13,700 health researchers and trainees across Canada.
