Health committee  Indeed the issue of gender, sex, and opiate use is an important one for CIHR. Our institute of gender and health is looking at this matter on a regular basis and investing in a significant number of areas. Most recently we attended the opiate summit co-hosted by the minister, a

Health committee  Thank you for your question, an important one indeed for us in the research community. You're quite correct that since approximately 2007 and 2008, the CIHR's budget has been effectively stable at approximately a billion dollars. This has resulted in a loss of purchasing power in

Health committee  If you permit, Mr. Chair, a follow-up, I should mention that in budget 2016 we also allocated a specific.... I'm going to back up. It's important that as we look at the research enterprise we understand the entirety of the continuum of researchers and the importance that we conti

Health committee  CIHR, as my colleague from the health portfolio indicated, recognizes the importance of this emerging research area. I should indicate CIHR has supported already a number of research projects on various facets of the issue, such as both the harms and possibly the benefits of e-ci

Health committee  First and foremost, as you know, CIHR is invested with a significant amount of funds, a billion dollars, which we try to invest as efficiently and accurately as possible with respect to health research. In that regard, the changes we are implementing at CIHR were the result of a

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee member, for the question. Indeed, the Canada strategy for patient-oriented research, SPOR, as we call it, the acronym, is indeed a key platform for collaboration among federal-provincial partners on the ground—patients, as well—in terms of heal

Health committee  Thank you for the question. Just to clarify, the question of gap that the member refers to relates to the change in our funding approach with our open investigator grant program, which is a significant portion of our budget that allows investigators to apply for funding. There h