Partner with us to advance shared health research priorities
Health Research BC brings together the people and organizations experiencing health challenges with those working to solve them. By aligning expertise, resources, and effort, we amplify what’s possible — delivering greater and more lasting impact.
Our collaborative approach helps partners mobilize resources; support high-quality, peer-reviewed research aligned with their goals; and grow BC’s health research talent and system capacity.
Together, we can address the evolving priorities of BC’s health and health research systems — from diversifying research career pathways to strengthening innovation and advancing emerging areas of research. By working collaboratively, we can grow our collective investments to strengthen research across BC and create greater impact than any one organization could achieve alone.
Benefits to your organization
Partnership equals real-world impact
Collaborate with us to tackle BC’s pressing health challenges. Together, we can generate solutions that not only improve health outcomes in our province, but set BC up as an industry leader for health research worldwide.
Excellence
Whether you’re looking to support a specific population, health issue, or type of research activity, we offer flexible, tailor-made models that reflect your mission and maximize your impact. Together, we can design an approach that supports meaningful outcomes for BC and beyond.
Connections
Build relationships with the best and brightest researchers in your field and help them understand research challenges in your area. Connect your community and donors to the research they support.
Leverage
Double the value of your available research funding — your health research dollars will go further with 100% of your contribution going towards co-funding an award.
Flexibility
We identify researchers who align with your needs and priorities, and then you decide whether to co-fund an applicant.
Hear from partners and researchers
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“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
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“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
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“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
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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