Table 3.
THINC funding initiative eligibility and application review criteria: an overview
| Program Component | Program Information | Program Metrics |
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Hub – Knowledge Mobilization and Impact Hub |
Objectives: Foster initiative wide coordination, learning and collaboration, capacity development, KM and collective impact to advance integrated care transformation |
Grant Value: $2.2 M Duration: 6 years Partners: 2 Total Investment: $2.2 M Projects Funded: 1 |
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Eligibility Criteria: Hub team must include: • Scientific Lead • Knowledge Mobilization and Brokering and Impact Lead • Community Engagement Champions • Individuals with lived/living experiences related to integrated care • Sex and Gender • Indigenous Health Research and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion champions (learn more) | ||
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Review Criteria: Research approach must include: • Originality and value-add of the proposal • Applicant team, including diversity, qualifications and expertise of team members, • Environment for research, including suitability for hub’s activities and training and mentoring • Impact of the research, geography, training, expertise and a meaningful engagement plan for overall Hub activities | ||
| Teams – Implementation Science Teams (learn more) | Objectives: Advance the implementation, evaluation, and spread/scale of transformative evidence-informed integrated care policies and interventions towards advancing the Quintuple Aim |
Grant Value: $2 M Duration: 5 years Partners: 11 Total Investment: $24.4 M Projects Funded: 13 |
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Eligibility: Core leadership team must include: • Quadripartite leadership model (researcher, decisionmaker, healthcare provider, person with lived/living experience) Sex and gender champion • Equity, diversity and inclusion champion | ||
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Review Criteria: • Equity, diversity and inclusion in all research stages • Experience in patient-oriented care, meaningful engagement with knowledge users of the research • Interdisciplinary, multisectoral collaborations (learn more) | ||
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Catalyst Grants 1—Accelerate Evidence on Healthcare Delivery System Innovations that Achieve the Quadruple Aim and Improve Health Equity |
Objectives: Support Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Implementation projects to generate relevant and timely evidence about the impacts of innovations in how healthcare systems and services are organized, delivered, governed, held accountable, financed, and/or funded on the Quintuple Aim, and which innovations have the most potential for transformative impact in the Canadian context |
Grant Value: $100,000 Duration: 1 year Partners: 6 Total Investment: $4.9 M ($1.8 M focused on integrated care) Projects Funded: 50 (18 focused on integrated care) |
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Eligibility Criteria: Research must be co-led by: • Researcher and a knowledge user with direct experience in the research area | ||
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Review Criteria: • Meaningful collaboration of knowledge users as part of the research team • Alignment with priority evidence-needs • Plans for integrated knowledge translation plans • Future collaborative partnership opportunities | ||
| Catalyst Grants 2 – Policy Research for Health System Transformation (learn more) | Objectives: Support retrospective policy evaluation and/or prospective policy development and implementation that generates evidence to inform macro-level policies to support high-performing health care and public health systems that advance the Quintuple Aim |
Grant Value: $150,000 Duration: 1 year Partners: 13 Total Investment: $9 M ($2.25 M focused on integrated care) Projects Funded: 60 (15 focused on integrated care) |
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Eligibility Criteria: Research team must include: • tripartite leadership researcher, policymaker, and person with lived experience) | ||
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• Review Criteria: Integrated knowledge translation approach • Diverse disciplinary expertise • Meaningful engagement and commitment from the research team • Contributions of all applicant partners in advancing the research objectives | ||
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Embedded Research – Health System Impact Fellowships and Embedded Early Career Researcher Awards |
Objectives: Grow a strong cadre of embedded researchers positioned to play a key role in evidence-informed health system improvement that advances the Quintuple Aim |
Grant Value: Varies by career stage Duration: Varies by career stage Partners: 13 + Total Investment: $45 M over 8 years Projects Funded: Varies by career stage |
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Eligibility Criteria: Applicant must • Be a doctoral trainee, postdoctoral researcher, or early career researcher • Have a dyad supervisor/mentor model including a health system supervisor/mentor as an executive level decision-maker within a health system organization and an academic at a Canadian university |
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Review Criteria: • Applicant – Experience, Contributions and Career Development • Research Program and Knowledge Mobilization Plan • Environment, Support and Mentorship • Potential Impact (including value-add of the award to the individual and organization) |