Rewarding Success Is Now Open for Applications
Last month, we announced that a new program for funding Patient-Oriented Research would be coming soon from our friends and funders at CIHR. Now, we’re very pleased to inform you that the Rewarding Success program is open for applications.
The Rewarding Success competition is an innovative Clinical Trials (iCT) program designed to incentivize “research teams and their healthcare partners to enhance value-based care, health system sustainability, and health outcomes,” by encouraging them to come up with innovative real-world solutions for reducing low value care, health care inefficiencies, and avoidable morbidities; the benefits realized from these solutions will then be used to fund further innovative research that will have similar impacts on patient outcomes.
Right now, CIHR is accepting Idea Brief applications for this program. The Idea Briefs are short (2-page) expressions of interest that:
- Describe the healthcare challenge/provincial priorities.
- Describe the proposed intervention to the aforementioned challenge, highlighting how it is expected to enhance value-based health care, health system sustainability, and equitable health outcomes.
- Describe potential outcomes that will be measured.
- Describe the cost savings that will be produced.
- Describe how this idea would be of value to patients and how patients will be involved, giving consideration to sex, gender and other intersecting factors as relevant.
- Describe how the implementation of the idea aligns with the definition of iCT and its research areas.
Four Idea Briefs will be selected from each participating province, and each team will be awarded awarded a $2500 travel grant to go to Ottawa on February 6–7 to participate in a two day Ideathon. At the Ideathon, two teams will be selected from each province to receive a Business Case Development Grant valued at $100,000 for one year to further develop the idea for the full Team Grant competition to be announced later.
Priority themes for Newfoundland and Labrador include:
- Home and Community Care
- Mental Health and Addictions
- Primary Health Care
- eHealth / Health Information Management
While NL SUPPORT will continue its role in providing training and some development support for this competition, the review process itself for the Idea Briefs phase of Rewarding Success will be overseen by our colleagues at the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research.
Because this is such a new program and model for funding, there are a couple of information sessions on Sept. 28 and Oct. 3 available for interested research teams.
CIHR is holding a Rewarding Success Webinar on September 28 from 2:00–3:00pm ET. You can Register here.
NLCAHR is holding a locally-focused Rewarding Success Information Session on October 3 from 2:00–3:30pm, NT. You can attend in-person at the Centre or by phone. Check the attached agenda for more information.
