New Emerging Team Grants - Access to Quality Cancer Care: Part of CIHR's Initiative on Access to Care
The purpose of this RFA is to fund outstanding research that, through an integral requirement for knowledge translation, will provide the evidence that will lead directly to improved access to quality cancer care, from prevention to palliation. The New Emerging Teams funding program will ensure capacity building in cancer-related health services research in general and will provide an ideal environment for the formation of collaborative research teams involving researchers, health care professionals, health system managers and policy makers. Some of the partners supporting this RFA have identified specific areas of interest which are described in the section Description of Partners. It is hoped that the strong support of Canada's provincial cancer agencies will encourage applications directly linked to provincial priorities and create inter-provincial networking opportunities in the future that will provide equitable and timely access to health care for all Canadians.
Timely access to high quality health care remains a top priority for CIHR and for all Canadians. Attention has focused primarily on excessive wait times for a wide range of different health services. In response to the public's growing concern about the Canadian health care system, the First Ministers agreed to build on past efforts to reduce wait times and improve access by establishing a commitment, in their 'Ten-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care', to establish "evidence-based benchmarks" for medically acceptable wait times in identified priority areas, including cancer. The full text of the Ten-Year Plan [External PDF | Help] is available.
A total of 20 Letters of Intent (LOIs) were received of which 20 were invited to submit a full application for the November 1, 2006 deadline.
Due to budgetary constraints development grants were reduced by 20%.
Congratulations to the successful applicants
| Principal Investigator | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| BRAZIL, Kevin | McMaster University | Improving access to quality palliative care for cancer patients. |
| BRISSON, Jacques | Université Laval | Access to quality cancer care in Quebec |
| BUTLER, Lorna J | Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) |
Neighbourhood: A Single Point of Access to Integrated Information and Psychosocial Support for Men with Prostate Cancer |
| DAVIS, Noelle L | BC Cancer Agency (Vancouver, BC) |
Access to Multidisciplinary Cancer Care |
| DOLL, Richard | B.C. Cancer Research Centre (Vancouver) |
Promoting Equity in Access to Cancer Supportive Care |
| ELIAS, Brenda D | University of Manitoba |
Access to quality cancer care for Manitoba's First Nations and non-First Nations population: |
| GALLIE, Brenda L | University Health Network (Toronto) |
Process and Impact of the National Retinoblastoma Strategy |
| GROOME, Patti A | Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) |
Optimizing Detection, Treatment and Supportive Care in Head and Neck Cancer |
| GRUNFELD, Eva | Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) |
Towards improving access to quality colorectal cancer services across the cancer control continumm. |
| HIRDES, John P | University of Waterloo (Ontario) |
Innovations in Data, Evidence and Applications to Enhance Access to Quality Cancer Care (IDEAS for cancer care): A New Emerging Team. |
| JOHNSON- MASOTTI, Ana |
Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) |
The Role of Economics, Decision Making, and Resource Allocation in Accessing Cancer Drugs |
| KATZ, Alan | University of Manitoba |
Primary Care Oncology: New Emerging Team (PCO-NET) |
| LATOSINSKY, Steven |
Cancer Care Manitoba |
Rapid Adoption of Evidence- Based Practice in Cancer Care: A Clinical Oncology Need to Know Initiative |
| MACKILLOP, William J |
Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) |
Improving Cancer Outcomes by Optimizing the Accessibility and Quality of Radiotherapy in Canada |
| MCBRIDE, Mary L | University of British Columbia |
Research Program on Cancer Survivorship Care |
| MENON, Devidas | University of Alberta | Development and validation of tools to facilitate resource allocation decisions for access to new technologies in cancer control. |
| MIEDEMA, Baukje | Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) |
Improving access to quality follow-up care for young adults with cancer. |
| ROGERS, Paul | University of Calgary | Centre for Cancer Care Operational Excellence |
| TYLDESLEY, Scott K |
British Columbia Cancer Agency (Vancouver) |
Operations Research Models for Improving Access to Cancer Care: The Network for Operations Research in Cancer Care (NORCC) |
| URBACH, David R | University Health Network (Toronto) |
Cancer Surgery In Ontario: Quality and Access |
