Grants and Community Initiatives Program:
Health and Medical Education/Research
Over the last year, Vancouver Foundation and its partners undertook an extensive review of our Health and Medical Education/Research grants program. As a result, we have improved our focus to enhance the impact of our grants in this area.
Our renewed emphasis is on community-focused participatory research. This is a method of scientific inquiry in which community members affected by the condition or issue under study are active participants in each stage of the research — from conception and design of a plan of action, implementation, analysis, to the dissemination of results and conclusions. This approach ensures that the community is able to ask critical questions, document and interpret the findings, and create systemic change in local, provincial, and national policies that will respond to the findings.
Below, in more detail, is the new purpose and goals of the Health and Medical Education/Research program.
Additional details regarding the grants process will be available in June. If you would like to be notified of our official launch, please email info@vancouverfoundation.ca
For more information contact:
Niveria Oliveira
Manager, Grants and Community Initiatives
604.688.2204
or
Andreas Yupitun
Assistant, Grants and Community Initiatives
604.688.2204
Health and Medical Education/Research - Purpose and Goals
Purpose:
Health and Medical Education/Research FOI grants support initiatives that ensure British Columbians are involved in advancing the health of their own communities. Community-focused research grants allow researchers and not-for-profit organizations to collaboratively undertake relevant research at the community level.
Bursaries provided within the post-secondary health and medical fields enable community members (students) to further develop their knowledge and skills with the goal of providing health and medical services to communities throughout BC.
Goals:
- To support and increase capacity for community-focused research across BC by working in partnership with both community based and institutional researchers to enhance the health and well-being of British Columbians.
- To support the post-secondary and continuing education of students and professionals in BC in the health and medical fields, particularly those facing significant barriers to participation.
- To prudently and effectively steward funds designated to support health and medical research consistent with the directions of donors.
- To prudently and effectively steward funds designated to support provision of health and medical services consistent with the directions of donors.
- To prudently and effectively steward funds designated to support post-secondary education of students and professionals in the health and medical fields consistent with the directions of donors.
