A new funding opportunity from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is available to support research that uses existing cohort data, administrative datasets and data platforms that link to or allow access to datasets from multiple sources. Among the data sets that the CHIR wants to see used are those of the Canadian Partnership for

Data and samples from the Ontario Health Study will be used to research a range of health conditions that increase the risk of serious disease. Read the media release to find out more.

Dr. Philip Awadalla, the Ontario Health Study’s Principal Investigator, is part of a University of Toronto team that was awarded a $4 million grant in 2016 from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) for the Canadian Environmental Urban Health Research Consortium project. The consortium will play a key role in supporting the research needed