The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of the March 2014 Operating Grants competition. This highly competitive round of funding has resulted in the following grants being awarded to SPPH faculty and researchers:
CIHR Operating Grants (201403) awarded to SPPH:
Principal Investigator(s):
PURE AIR: A Global Assessment of Air Pollution and Respiratory and Cardiovascular Disease within the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological Study ($753,674 over 4 years)
Principal Investigators: Michael Brauer and Salim Yusuf
Co-Investigators: Richard T. Burnett, Mylinh Duong, Perry W. Hystad, Randall V. Martin, Paul O’Byrne, Koon K. Teo
Surgical Assessment: Measuring Unobserved Health ($565,276 over 3 years)
Principal Investigator: Jason M Sutherland
Co-Investigators: Nick Bansback, Trafford Crump, Kevin J Wing
Return to work after work injury and illness: An international comparative effectiveness study of Canada, Australia and New Zealand ($525,826 over 3 years)
Principal Investigator: Chris McLeod
Co-Investigators: Benjamin C Amick, Alex Collie, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Mieke Koehoorn, Peter M. Smith, John Wren
Co-Investigator(s):
The Canadian STRIDER Trial: sildenafil for dismal prognosis IUGR
Principal Investigators: Peter von Dadelszen, Kenneth I Lim
Co-Investigators: Sayrin Lalji, John M Ansermino, Francoise Audibert, Emmanual Bujold, Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Sandra T Davidge, Andree M Gruslin, Laura A, Magee, Bruno Piedbouef, Wendy P Robinson, Percival Gareth R Seaward, Joel Singer, Anne R Synnes
Adherence and preference of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure versus Mandibular Advancement Splints in Obstructive Sleep Apnea patients: a randomized trial
Principal Investigators: Fernanda Almeida, Nelly Huynh
Co-Investigators: Najib Ayas; Nick Bansback, John Fleetham, Gilles Lavigne, Alan Lowe, Jean-Francois Masse, Frédéric H Series
A social scientific investigation of randomized controlled trial participation in addictions research
Principal Investigators:Thomas H Kerr, William G Small
Co-Investigators: Rodney E. Knight, Lisa Maher, Julio Montaner, Peter A. Newman, Lindsey Richardson, Evan Wood
CIHR Operating Grants (201405) awarded to SPPH:
Principal Investigator(s):
An Integrated Real-time Modeling and Surveillance Decision-support Framework to Inform Public Health Emergency Preparedness ($100,000 over 1 year)
Principal Investigators: Babak Pourbohloul, Bonnie Henry
Co-Investigators: Robert F Balshaw, Krista English, Sunny Mak, Michael C Otterstatter