catalyst grant: digital health

the specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• support original, high quality research in digital health that has the potential to generate pilot data for future research (e.g. project grant and funding at other agencies/councils), including research into evaluation, scale up, or implementation of a digital health product, platform or application.
• incentivize research that focuses on digital health solutions for the cihr-imha mandate areas.
• foster a community of cihr-imha digital health researchers that partner with canadian leaders in equitable digital science.
• provide research leadership, stimulate innovative research and practice, and strengthen research capacity by dedicating funds to early and mid-career researchers as part of cihr-imha’s commitment to nurture leaders.
• strengthen health research through the incorporation of patient and/or community engagement.