CIHR Team Grant: Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness
Congratulations to Rachel Dickens and Donna Kurtz who were successful at the LOI stage of the CIHR Team Grant competition: Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness. The CIHR funding supports Indigenous-led and community-driven research that aims to reverse the upward trajectory of diabetes and associated co-morbidities (e.g. cardiometabolic disease) among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples and their communities.
Rachel Dickens, University of British Columbia, School of Kinesiology and Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council (British Columbia)
Donna Kurtz, University of British Columbia, School of Nursing
About the CIHR Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness:
The Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness will support Indigenous-led and community-driven research that aims to reverse the upward trajectory of diabetes and associated co-morbidities (e.g. cardiometabolic disease) among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples and their communities. The objective of this component is to define and integrate models of resilience and wellness into diabetes prevention and treatment approaches among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. The inclusion of an Early Career Researcher and/or trainees who either self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) or provide evidence of having meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples, is strongly encouraged.
Research Areas
The Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness will support Indigenous-led and community-driven research to define and integrate models of resilience and wellness into diabetes prevention and/or treatment approaches among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples, covering at least one of the following research areas:
- Mental wellness, spiritual health, ceremony, and connection to community, the land and culture
- Social determinants of health
- Health promotion and prevention research, especially among children and youth
- Supporting the health of community health workers/workforce
- Integrating Indigenous knowledges and Western science (Indigenous and non-Indigenous research paradigms)
- Related diabetes complications and co-morbidities e.g. heart failure/coronary artery disease, stroke, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis
Funds Available
The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $8,420,000.
