The call for proposals for the 2023 Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards opens on February 15 to faculty members at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan. The deadline to submit a proposal is April 14, 2023.

UBC Health is offering up to $25,000 to faculty members who are collaborating across faculties, disciplines, and campuses to develop new teams, pursue new ideas, or translate findings from innovative health-related research.

Health is produced by a complex interplay of individual, social, political, and economic factors. Interdisciplinary and cross-faculty collaborations have the potential to lead to more innovative solutions to improve health and address health inequities. The HIFI Awards are intended to catalyze these collaborations by supporting cross-faculty and cross-campus research at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. 

Healthy Aging Stream

There are persistent health challenges and inequities that demand a collaborative approach. Complementing efforts throughout the university and health sectors, UBC Health seeks to connect diverse expertise and resources across disciplines to help advance education, research, and policy in pressing areas such as aging and chronic disease. In Canada, there are more seniors than there are children. And as the proportion of seniors continues to grow, we find ourselves confronting new health challenges centred on maintaining seniors’ health and independence and preventing and treating diseases associated with aging. In response to this challenge, UBC Health has partnered with the Edwin S.H. Leong Healthy Aging Program to support healthy aging research at UBC. In addition to the general, open call for HIFI, UBC Health invites applications that take an interdisciplinary approach to address health challenges related to aging.  

For information on eligibility criteria, key dates, FAQs, and how to apply, visit the HIFI page.

Posted February 10, 2023