Call for Applications For The Position of Scientific Secretary to the HTAi Policy Forum, 2016-17

Deadline: April 3, 2016 To submit an application and for all inquiries, contact: HTAiPF@southampton.ac.uk  1. Overview of HTAi (www.htai.org ) Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) is the global scientific and professional society for all those who produce, use, or encounter Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) embraces (more…)

2016 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition

Purpose and overview: In 2008, the Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation launched its annual student essay competition. The intent is to foster Canadian health economics and health policy research among undergraduate and graduate students. The competition is publicized in French and English through undergraduate and graduate programs in economics, health (more…)
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Impact Grants- Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute

Program description The Impact Grant program is intended to contribute to the scientific idea ‘pipeline’ by supporting significant progression in cancer research programs, from individual investigators or multidisciplinary teams, that are anywhere in the continuum from basic high impact discovery to translational work of direct relevance to the clinic. Impact (more…)
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Career Development Awards in Prevention- Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute

Program description Career Development Awards in Prevention have been created to establish or maintain the career development of post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows or junior investigators in the area of cancer prevention/risk reduction research and community-based clinical research in cancer prevention by providing protected research time and research funds. Applications are (more…)

Project Manager Position at BC Cancer Agency

The BC Cancer Agency is committed to reducing the incidence of cancer, reducing the mortality from cancer, and improving the quality of life of those living with cancer. BC Cancer Agency provides a comprehensive cancer control program for the people of British Columbia in partnership with regional health authorities to (more…)

NCCPH Knowledge Translation Graduate Student Awards

The National Collaborating Centres for Public Health is granting up to three awards to be given annually to attend the CPHA Annual Conference. Travel, accommodation and registration fees will be covered up to a maximum of $1,500. Eligibility The award is open to students who are currently enrolled in a graduate (more…)

Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate

The Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate (KTPC™) is a 5 day professional development course, held in Toronto, Canada, and the only course of its kind in North America.  The curriculum, presented as a composite of didactic and interactive teaching, exemplars, and exercises, focuses on the core competencies of KT work in (more…)

Cancer Care Ontario E-Learning

Cancer Care Ontario’s e-learning site offers a variety of online resources for continuing professional development to primary care providers—all are free of charge and accessible anytime, from anywhere. Resources include publications and guideline summaries, along with accredited, self-directed, online courses that will earn you continuing professional development credits and a (more…)

Free Online Course in Health Technology Assessment starting Feb. 15

In this free online course, you’ll look at how healthcare organisations make decisions about whether we should have access to certain treatments, focusing on a key part of the information used to make these decisions – Health Technology Assessment (HTA). Over five weeks, they’ll take you through some of the (more…)

CCSRI Innovation Grants – Step 1 (declare intent) Deadline Feb. 15

Program description Innovation Grants have been created to support innovative, creative problem solving in cancer research. As competition for grant funding increases, peer review panels become more conservative and risk averse, emphasizing feasibility more than innovation. The goal of this CCSRI grant program is to support unconventional concepts, approaches or (more…)