Transforming health together

Research drives solutions for BC’s most pressing health challenges. Partnerships help accelerate that progress.

Together with our partners, we co-invest to expand funding opportunities, connect researchers with communities and collaborators across the province, and accelerate impact.

Partnership benefits

since 2014

 $80M

c0-invested in research with partners

since 2001

450

partnerships

since 2001

100

partner organizations

Partnering for impact

Dr. Kelli Stajduhar and team. Health Research BC supported Dr. Kelli Stajduhar with a Scholar Award and Research Trainee Award as well as match funding for the SALTY study and a research project on navigating end-of-life care. Credit: Dr. Kelli Stajduhar

Why partner

Partnering with us means optimizing your research dollars to advance research priorities that are important to you.

Why partner

Partnership opportunities

Our partners work with us in creative and flexible ways to invest in shared priorities.

Partnership opportunities

Our partners

Our partners support a wide range of BC-based health research that impacts people across the world. By working together, we are investing in better health for all.

Our partners

Partnerships amplify impact

Partnerships bring together the people and organizations who experience challenges with those solving them. Together, we mobilize new resources, expand expertise, and align efforts for greater, lasting impact.

Together we grow research talent, address priority research, and advance innovation. With flexible partnership models and co-investment options, we help organizations optimize their contributions while supporting high-quality, peer-reviewed research.

Build research capacity

We strengthen BC’s capacity for health policy and patient-oriented research through long-standing collaborations with CIHR and SPOR initiatives.

Leverage match funding

We provide match funding to researchers applying to national and international funding competitions led by organizations including CIHR, SSHRC, Genome Canada, and Brain Canada.

Our partners

We are proud to partner with leading organizations from BC, Canada, and around the world to advance health research discovery and innovation.

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Hear from partners and researchers

  • “Support from Health Research BC was a game changer. It enabled me to work inside the system — not alongside it — and make my research more relevant. It also accelerated my career and allowed me to stay in BC to build a program of nursing-led research that drives real change.

    Leah Lambert, Health System Impact Fellowship awardee

  • “As an early-career clinician researcher, a Michael Smith Health Research BC / Parkinson Society of British Columbia Health Professional-Investigator Award allows me to maintain and progress with the momentum I acquired throughout my clinical and research training. It will allow me to establish and develop a productive and sustainable research program.“

    Jason Chan, Health Professional Investigator awardee

  • “Partnering with Michael Smith Health Research BC helps us move research forward at an exponential pace. They do a great job of bringing organizations and researchers together. Their peer-review process helps us ensure we are funding the best researchers in the fields that are important to us.“

    Dick Vollet, President & CEO, St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation

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