Overview

Enabling research with impact

We create opportunities for research careers to develop and thrive, connect evidence to the real world, and partner to improve how research is done. By investing in people and strengthening the system in which they work, we enable discoveries that transform health.

Dr. Juanita-Dawne Bacsu (third from the left) at the Population Health and Aging Rural Research (PHARR) Centre’s Rural Aging and Stigma of Dementia Workshop, with other attendees and experts in the field. Credit: PHARR Centre

Partnering for better health

since 2001

450

partnerships

since 2001

3,000

researchers supported

since 2001

$280M

invested in scholars and research trainees

Building research careers

Knowledge Translation Canada’s Summer Institute June 17-19, 2025
Dr. Sandy Shultz | 2021 Scholar award, 2022 Convening and Collaborating award Credit: Vancouver Island University

Our Work

What we do

Building talent

We support researchers to develop their careers in BC.

Funding opportunities
Funded research
Building talent

Catalyzing solutions

We connect and progress efforts to improve BC’s health research system.

Clinical trials
Patient-oriented research
Research ethics
Catalyzing solutions

Mobilizing action

We advance research on health priorities.

Priority themes
Translating evidence to practice
Indigenous-led research
Mobilizing action

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