Career Reorientation Awards
This program is designed specifically to attract established, mid-career researchers from disciplines outside of the health area to apply their expertise and experience to applied health services and policy research issues. Those in the health area, including the health professions, are not eligible as they generally have greater access to research support. The exception is nursing researchers who want to redirect their research to include nursing management and organization issues. This exception stems from the specific mandate of the Foundation to foster nursing research in Canada, through the Nursing Research Fund.
The innovative nature of this award prompted the Foundation to conduct a pilot competition during the fall of 2000. Based on the success of that pilot in terms of attracting high-quality candidates from outside of the health area, the Foundation again excluded health professions from the 2001 competition.
The evaluation of the pilot competition also strongly recommended that the term reorientation should replace renewal because it better reflects the objective of this award: to encourage established researchers to bring their skills and expertise to bear on health services or policy research issues.
The award includes $50,000 in salary support for training with an applied health services unit or group for one year. In addition, an allowance of $10,000 is provided to the mentor. The budget allows for a total of four awards each year.
Please direct all inquiries to GrantsandAwards@chsrf.ca.
