Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Aboriginal Peoples' Health

The goal of this "Meetings, Planning, and Dissemination Grant" application is to hold a series of three meetings involving provincial Aboriginal health researchers and stakeholders in Aboriginal health engaged in the provision of and access to palliative care in order to facilitate research priority-setting in rural and remote Aboriginal palliative care in British Columbia. These meetings will serve to expand and enhance a recently established research team composed of researchers from the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Northern British Columbia by engaging with three rural health authorities in the province (Interior Health Authority, Northern Health Authority, and Vancouver Island Health Authority) and the Inter Tribal Health Authority. The objectives of these meetings are to: (1) catalyze research priorities regarding the provision of rural and remote Aboriginal palliative care in the province; (2) coalesce a community-university-government research partnership; and (3) create an innovative research proposal concerning Aboriginal palliative care to put forward in the Fall 2009 CIHR (Aboriginal Health) grants competition. Specific preparatory tasks include: 1.Environmental scan of the existing academic and grey literatures. 2.Identification of key stakeholders in Aboriginal palliative care in British Columbia. 3.Distribution of invitations to participate and collaboratively develop a meeting agenda. Specific tasks at these meetings include: 1.Review/synthesize findings from the environmental scan. 2.Determine research potential and priorities. 3.Determine nature of the research partnership. 3a.Involve highly qualified graduate students. 3b.Involve community-based stakeholders. 3c.Identify potential for an Advisory Committee. 4.Strategize about the preliminary development of innovative research proposal.