- Who we are
- Funding Programs
- Knowledge Exchange
- Publications
- BC NEIHR Podcast
- Season 1
- EP1 - Intro: Who We Are, Why We're Here & What We're Trying to Do
- EP2- Inspiring Indigenous Scholars: Interview with Dr. Robinson
- EP3- Jimena Chalchi - Health Leadership and Traditional Womens' Medicine in Central and Southern America
- EP4- Creating Safer Spaces - Interview with Harley Eagle
- EP5 -Inspiring Indigenous Scholars: Interview with Marion Erickson
- EP6- Inspiring Indigenous Scholars: Interview with Spencer Greening/La鈥檊oot
- Season 2
- Season 1
- Gatherings and Events
- Training and Resources
- Contact
Funding Programs
Our collective vision for the next five years of the BC NEIHR will be to continue to create a supportive environment for Indigenous health research to be celebrated by ICCOs, academic researchers, and students across BC through our unique funding programs.
The BC NEIHR offers the following funding programs to ICCOs, researchers and students:
- ICCO Research Development Grants (RDGs) - one-year $16,000 (non-renewable)
- Supports ICCO-led research development activities such as community outreach, relationship building, health research priority setting, health research partnership development, health research application development and submission of ICCO/research applications to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) competitions or other funding agencies.
- ICCO Knowledge and Sharing Mobilization Grants (KSM) - one-year $16,000 (non-renewable)
- Supports ICCOs who have completed an ICCO-led research and wish to share the findings of their research in a culturally and contextually relevant ways.
- Indigenous Graduate Scholarships and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program - one-year (funding varies for Master's, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral applicants)
- Supports Master's, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Indigenous trainees with funding to help develop research skills, parternship potential with ICCOs and trainees who wish to conduct research within a BC host institution and/or with an ICCO.
- *NEW* Indigenous Graduate Thesis Fellowship (IGTF) - one-time $6,000 (non-renewable)
- Aims to provide financial support to full-time Indigenous doctoral graduate students in thesis-based graduate programs who are approaching their final year of study and are engaged in the final stages of writing to complete their thesis or dissertation.
- Research Experience Award (REA) - short-term $5,000 (non-renewable)
- Intended for self-funded Indigenous graduate students to adopt new and enhance existing research skills on a wellness-related research projects initated by and of interest to an ICCO.
- Pilot Project Grants (PPG) for Early Career Indigenous Researchers - one-year $14,000 (non-renewable)
- Supports Indigenous early career researchers (reseacher within seven years of the date of their first independent research-related faculty appointments - assistant professor, associate professor) with seed funds to develop and implement a pilot project that is in partnership with BC ICCOs and/or on topic of Indigenous health and wellness.