Grant: Operating Grant: Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research- Dev Grants

For more than 17 years, First Nations and Métis communities, organizations, and governments in Saskatchewan have, with university-based researchers, made up the Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre (IPHRC). The purpose of this NEIHR development proposal is to develop a NEIHR-funded centre by bringing together IPHRC and First Peoples First Person, a national Indigenous research and intervention network that the NPI co-leads, under this new NEIHR structure. The goals of our NEIHR grant are to: 1. engage Métis and First Nations community stakeholders (local, regional and provincial), along with university-based researchers (University of Regina, University of Saskatchewan and First Nations University of Canada) and provincial and federal health care decision makers, to determine provincial Indigenous health/wellness research, training and knowledge translation (KT) priorities and avenues of research and KT capacity building; 2. establish an Indigenous-determined governance structure for the new NEIHR centre to oversee the development of the full proposal and the work of Centre once funded by the NEIHR program; 3. with the assistance of university development offices, secure matching funds for the NEIHR full proposal; 4. once the RFA is released, develop and submit a NEIHR full proposal based upon the research, training and KM priorities identified by our community/university networks during this development grant.