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Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research
HealthCareCAN recognizes the crucial role that research hospitals and health research play in Canada’s future. Research hospitals are where the promise of health research meets possibilities for patient care. They are also the practice homes of clinician scientists cross trained in basic science and in clinical care.
Time for federal leadership
Healthcare quality and outcomes hindered by access issues
This article reviews perceptions of Canada’s public and health professionals regarding access and quality of healthcare. Principal data sources were 13 sequential Health Care in Canada (HCIC) surveys, from 1998 to 2018. A persistent and growing issue in all regions of the country is concern around timely access to care. This concern about timely access involves all major components of healthcare delivery and is anticipated to worsen. Sub-optimal access continues to undermine quality of care.
Making the Case for Canadian Research
.André Picard, Columnist, Globe & Mail @ 29.09 min.
Research hospitals are few, but mighty
They build & strengthen national & global relationships
Realizing the Canadian Advantage in the Health & Life Sciences
This submission answers the questions posed by the Canada’s Science Review Panel referencing three common themes, and includes 13 recommendations to truly maintain our tradition of success and achieve the Canadian Advantage in the health and life sciences.
Themes:
- Strategic coordination
- Strategic investment
- Strategic policy
HealthCareCAN Recommendations
Reduce pressure on the current CIHR budget
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Create a more explicitly inclusive research ecosystem
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Provide an immediate increase of $120M per year to the A base budget of CIHR
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Reconsider Government’s current practice
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Review CIHR governance
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Implement the Chief Science Officer role
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Implement the following 2 points
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That the federal government undertake a funding flow study
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Revisit the current Federal Support for Research Programs
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Restore a healthy sustainable CIHR budget
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Ensure that there is “right sizing” of the university-granting council relationship
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That universities and granting councils engage in right sizing the system discussions
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Encourage greater strategic and operational coordination
The Advisory Panel on Federal Support for Fundamental Science
We fully support the recommendations made by the Advisory Panel on Federal Support for Fundamental Science in its report “Investing in Canada’s Future – Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research”. We urge the federal government to act on the direction given by the Panel.
Among the 35 recommendations submitted by the panel, were:
Legislation to create an independent National Advisory Council on Research and Innovation (NACRI).
Working closely with Canada’s new Chief Science Advisor (CSA), the new council would raise the bar in terms of ongoing evaluations of all programming.
Wide-ranging improvements to oversight and governance of the four agencies.
This includes the appointment of a coordinating board chaired by the CSA.
Significant reinvestment.
To be undertaken on a multi-year basis.
New spending.
To be balanced across:
- investigator-led research operating grants (the highest priority);
- enhanced personnel supports for researchers and trainees at different career stages;
- targeted spending on infrastructure-related operating costs for small equipment and Big Science facilities; and
- enhancement of the environment for science and scholarship by improved coverage of the institutional costs of research.
A cumulative base increase to move annual spending in steady-state across the four agencies and closely related entities.
From approximately $3.5 billion to $4.8 billion.
Op-eds & columns in support of the Naylor report
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Three Missions, One Future - Optimizing the Performance of Canada’s Academic Health Sciences Centres
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From Microscope to Marketplace: Spin-Off Companies in Canada from ACAHO Member Institutions
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Eureka! World’s First Discoveries and Other Major Medical Breakthroughs in ACAHO Member Institutions
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Moving at the Speed of Discovery: From Bench to Bedside to Business
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