Health committee  Thank you, Dr. Clifford. Thank you for that question. I think your question was, are education and knowledge exchange important components of the hubs in terms of an objective? It is an explicit objective of the funded hubs. The idea and the need for the hubs really speaks to

Health committee  Thank you so much for this question. There are 10 health hubs across the country. There isn't one specifically located in your province. However, what was very critical for us as the funder was to ensure that whomever was funded had national networks across the country. These ar

Health committee  Thank you so much for the opportunity to follow up on that question. From a research point of view, this is definitely a priority for us. One of the knowledge mobilization hubs that we funded in August 2023 is from a group at the University of Calgary that is focused on the Inu

Health committee  Thank you so much for the question and opportunity to clarify. I don't have the specific numbers for the incidence of cervical cancer in Canada right now. I do know that, because of improving detection and earlier screening, we may see an increase in the number of cases that ar

Health committee  We've funded 10 national women's health research hubs across the country. We have them distributed. We have three that were funded in British Columbia and three that were funded in Alberta. We have, I think, two in Quebec and two that are based in Ontario. Across all of the hubs,

Health committee  I would be delighted to do so.

Health committee  Thank you again for such a great question. I'm going to speak from a research lens, and I'll invite my colleagues to speak from a policy and service delivery lens. From a research perspective, I think we obviously have seen a complete transformation over the last 30 to 40 years

Health committee  Thank you so much for that question. It's such an important question. I am aware of that report. I will share that, from a CIHR perspective, absolutely, the gender dimension of the impacts of climate change is a priority for us. I can speak about a few recent funding opportuniti

Health committee  Thank you again for that great question. I'm going to comment briefly and then invite my colleague Dr. Clifford, or Health Canada, to comment further. I know we funded research around the Fort McMurray fires that documented what happened in terms of health outcomes and health c

Health committee  Thank you so much for that question and for an opportunity to share success stories as well. I do think that we have a really robust women's health research community here in Canada. I would say that we have a few really shining examples of research informing practice that lead

Health committee  Thank you for the question. Absolutely. Cervical cancer is a priority for us as Canadians, and it's a priority for us at CIHR, in terms of innovative research to address rising incidents of cervical cancer. As I mentioned earlier, we are very proud and fortunate to be able to fu

Health committee  Thank you so much for that excellent question. I will share with you that I hope to be asked that question over and over, as it's similarly a priority for me. From a research perspective, certainly CIHR recognizes racism and discrimination as structural forms of discrimination

Health committee  Thank you, Dr. Clifford. As my colleague indicated, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s policy changes have significantly increased the integration of sex and gender into health research. These policy changes are helping to make CIHR-funded science more rigorous and mo