Events, News & Resources

• Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) - Canada's federal funding agency for health research. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR collaborates with partners and researchers to support the discoveries and innovations that improve our health and strengthen our health-care system.

• Interior Health Foundations - Interior Health's foundations are the public face of our hospitals and health-care centres. Each foundation is made up of a board of respected community leaders, volunteers, and a professional staff of fundraisers and support services.

• Michael Smith Health Research BC - B.C.’s health research funding agency. Funding programs are designed to attract, develop and retain B.C.’s health research talent and contribute to addressing B.C. health system priorities.

• BC Data Scout – an online tool that gives health researchers a general idea about how many people in B.C. meet specific health characteristics or criteria. It offers a quick way of discovering if there’s enough information about people with certain health characteristics to support a research study, using just a single point of access.
• Interior Health Library Services – a resource that connects physicians and IH staff to information. See the link for a full list of services.
• REACH BC - an online platform that aims to improve how British Columbians can connect with opportunities to volunteer in health research
• REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) - a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. Access to REDCap can be requested free of charge if the work is patient oriented.

• Michael Smith Health Research BC – patient oriented research training opportunities for patient partners and researchers
• San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety Training - San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) Training is a unique, online training program designed to enhance self-awareness, and strengthen the skills of those who work both directly and indirectly with Indigenous people. Anyone is eligible to take the training (see the FAQs to find out who is eligible to take the course at no cost)
• TCPS 2: CORE Tutorial (Course on Research Ethics) - The purpose of TCPS 2: CORE is to provide an introduction to TCPS 2, primarily for researchers and, secondarily, for Research Ethics Board members. All researchers who intend to engage in research with human participants should take the course.

Interior Health's Research Data Management Institutional strategy recognizes the importance of data as a research output and outlines how Interior Health will provide our researchers with an environment that enables and supports research data management, in fulfillment of the Canadian Tri-Agencies (NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR) Tri-Agency Research Data Management (RDM) Policy requirements. This document is a road map to build research capacity by making research data more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable over a multi-year horizon.