We have received $25 million over five years to improve vaccine coverage rates. There are several different components to that. One is to reset those targets to make sure they are still where we want to hit, have better ways of methodology for estimating vaccine coverage. We're also supporting up to $1.2 million, up to six research teams for two years, to look at identifying where those underimmunized populations are and why they are underimmunized, the reasons behind that.
We are transferring $2 million to partner with the CIHR to leverage on an existing network, the Canadian Immunization Research Network. That research network has a lot of great scientists collaborating across Canada. It already exists. They will look, from a scientific evidence perspective, at behavioural characteristics of vaccine acceptance and methodologies to improve uptake.
Finally, we will have an immunization partnership fund. That fund will leverage provinces, NGOs, and other stakeholders to look at implementing interventions that would work to increase immunization coverage rates.