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Funding Opportunity Details

Funding Organization Canadian Institutes of Health Research Program Name Fellowship
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        Fall 2025 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas) **Program Launch Date** 2025-07-08 **Deadline Date** TBD

Important Dates

| Competition | 202509PTA
CLOSED |
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| Application Deadline | 2025-09-17 |
| Anticipated Notice of Decision | 2026-03-31 |
| Funding Start Date | 2026-04-01 |

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Table of Contents

• Description
• Objectives
• Eligibility
• Guidelines
• Review Process and Evaluation
• How to Apply
• Contact Information

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Description

Priority Announcements (PAs) offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the "202509PTA" competition of the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program: 2025-2026 funding opportunity.

Funds Available

Funds are available to encourage and support applications in specific areas that are aligned with CIHR's research priority areas and mandates.

Information on the research areas to be funded as well as the maximum amounts per award that can be requested is found in the Objectives section.

CIHR Research Priority Areas

• Aging
• Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research
• Sex and Gender in Health Research

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Objectives

The specific objective of the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA): 2025-2026 Priority Announcement (Specific Research Areas) is to offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas and mandates.

CIHR Research Priority Areas

Aging (AGE)

Summary

Institute of Aging

The CIHR Institute of Aging (CIHR-IA) will fund applications that are relevant in the field of Geroscience. Applications must align with the CIHR IA Strategic Plan 2023-2028.

More information on the research priorities of CIHR-Institute of Aging can be found on their website.

Research Area:

• Geroscience
  Funds Available

• The total amount available for this priority announcement is $280,000.

• The maximum amount awarded for a single award is $70,000 per annum for up to two years.

• The Institute of Aging will provide funding for two (2) awards.
  Specific Requirements

• This Priority Announcement will require the completion of a Relevance Form. In the Relevance Form, the applicant must clearly indicate the relevance of their application to the field of Geroscience.

• The NPA will be required to submit a final report within one (1) month following the end of the award. The template and instructions for this report will be provided by CIHR.

• The CIHR-IA Institute team will contact the funded recipient to request a plain language written summary of their research project. This could include key messages and/or findings, outcomes, next steps and if applicable, any knowledge mobilization activities.
  Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research (FPE)

Summary

The Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies (CRPPHE) is housed at CIHR with a mandate to grow Canada's research leadership in preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery from pandemics and public health emergencies, including by building and supporting Canadian research capacity in the field.

CRPPHE will fund applications that address its mandate and that have a primary research objective related to preparing for and/or responding to existing and future pandemics and other health emergencies. In addition, applications must address one or more of the research areas listed below. CRPPHE encourages interdisciplinary applications including applications taking One Health, holistic or Indigenous approaches to research.

Research Areas:

• Behavioural sciences;
• Health Systems Research
• Intervention research and implementation science;
• One Health*;
• Community-based research approaches;
• Infectious disease modelling *For the purpose of this Priority Announcement:

A health emergency is defined as a present or imminent event or phenomenon, of a temporary, acute nature, with actual or potential significant negative impacts on human health, resulting in:

• A serious disruption of the functioning of a community; and/or,
• The declaration of a state of emergency by a municipal, provincial/territorial, federal and/or Indigenous government, or international organization with a health research mandate, and that;
• Requires prompt research action to protect and strengthen human health. One Health is defined as an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent. While health, food, water, energy and environment are all wider topics with sector-specific concerns, the collaboration across sectors and disciplines contributes to protect health, address health challenges such as the emergence of infectious diseases. By linking humans, animals and the environment, One Health can help to address the full spectrum of disease control – from prevention to detection, preparedness, response and management – and contribute to global health security.

For more information about it's mandate and objectives visit the CRPPHE website.

Funds Available

• The total amount available for this priority announcement is $280,000.
• The maximum amount awarded for a single award is $70,000 per annum for up to 2 years.

• The Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies will provide funding for two (2) awards.
  Specific Requirements

• This Priority Announcement will require the completion of a Relevance Form. In the Relevance Form, applicants must clearly indicate:

  • how the application addresses the CRPPHE mandate
  • how the application is related to preparing for and/or responding to existing and future pandemics and other health emergencies
  • how the application is relevant to one of the CRPPHE Priority Research Areas listed above (one or more Priority Research Area may be addressed).

• Applicants must propose a research training program in Canada to be eligible for this award.

• Only one (1) applicant per research environment (under the same supervisor) will be eligible to receive funding.

• A final report on the work accomplished must be submitted within three (3) months of completion of the award. Successful applicants will receive a document outlining the requirements/format of the report.
  Sex and Gender in Health Research (FSG)

Summary

The CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (CIHR-IGH) will fund applications relevant to its mandate and research priorities as outlined in the Research Priority Plan, and that align with at least one of the following research areas.

Research Areas:

1. Advancing intersectionality in sex and gender science
2. Understanding sex and gender mechanisms and processes
3. Sex and gender science for health equity in priority communities

• For research area 3, priority communities include women, 2S/LGBTQI+, Black and/or Indigenous communities.

• More information on the research priorities of CIHR-IGH can be found in our Research Priority Plan.
  Funds Available

• The total amount available for this priority announcement is $280,000. This amount may increase if additional funding partners or internal collaborators decide to participate.

• The maximum amount awarded for a single award is $70,000 per annum for up to two (2) years.

• The Institute of Gender and Health will provide funding for two (2) awards.
  Specific Requirements

• This Priority Announcement will require the completion of a Relevance Form. In the Relevance Form, the applicant must clearly indicate which of the three (3) research areas listed above they are applying to, and

  • Justify the relevance of their proposal to IGH's mandate and research priorities,
  • Comment on the integration of intersectionality, if applicable,
  • Comment on the relevance to 2S/LGBTQI+ and/or Black communities, if applicable.
  • Applications that address Indigenous health and wellness issues and/or population groups experiencing health inequities must elaborate on the applicant's ability to engage meaningfully and in a culturally safe way with these communities.

• The CIHR-IGH team may contact funded recipients to request a plain language written summary of their research project. This could include key messages and/or findings, outcomes, next steps and if applicable, any knowledge mobilization activities.
  Contact Information

• For questions about this these research initiatives and research objectives, see the Contact Information.

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Eligibility

For Eligibility, please refer to the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program: 2025-2026 funding opportunity.

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Guidelines

For Guidelines, please refer to the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program: 2025-2026 funding opportunity

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Review Process and Evaluation

Relevance Review Process

The following criteria will be used in conducting the relevance review:

• Alignment of the objectives of the proposed activity with the specific objectives of the CIHR Institute, Initiative, Branch and/or partners offering funding through the Priority Announcement Funding Opportunity. To conduct relevance review, CIHR and Partners will have access to various information submitted by applicants (e.g. completed relevance form, project titles, summaries), provided that applicants have consented to the sharing of information in consideration for other funding opportunities as well as to the sharing of information to observers in completing their ResearchNet application.

Funding Decision

Upon completion of peer review, CIHR will rank the applications that 1) are found to be relevant to the specific objectives of the research initiative and the research priority areas described under "CIHR Research Priority Areas"; and 2) are ranked within the CIHR fundable range but are not funded through the regular CIHR competition to which they were submitted. These applications will be funded from the top down in order of ranking as far as budgets will allow.

Applications that receive a ranking below the regular competition fundable range will not be funded.

Applications that are not deemed to be relevant will be withdrawn from the Priority Announcement competition, but will continue to be considered for funding through the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program funding opportunity.

Peer Review

Peer review committees will not be informed of applications submitted for funding through priority announcements.

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How to Apply

To submit an application, please log into ResearchNet and create an application through the "202509PTA" competition of the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program funding opportunity.

Applicants are required to follow the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program - Application Instructions.

Important: Please read all instructions to familiarize yourself with the application process before applying.

In order to ensure fairness in the evaluation of applications, CIHR will not accept updates to applications after the application deadline.

Specific Requirements

• Applicants may request that their application be considered for up to three (3) priority announcement research areas per application, in each Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program competition.
• Within their application to the Canada Postdoctoral Research Award competition, applicants must consent to the sharing of information in order to be considered for Priority Announcements. Applicants who do not consent to this sharing of information will be considered ineligible for Priority Announcements

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Contact Information

For all inquiries, please contact:

CIHR Contact Centre
Telephone: 613-954-1968
Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178
Email: support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

For service hours, please consult our Contact us page.

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