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Current Grants
Date | Program/Entity | Project Title | PI/NPI | Co-PI/Co-I/ Co-Applicant | Amount | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2024-Mar 2029 | SSHRC Partnership Grant | TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change | Claudia Mitchell | Neil Andersson, Anne Cockcroft | C$2,500,000 | 5 years |
| Apr 2024-Mar 2025 | McGill PBRN | Working with teenagers to understand their health needs and how these can be met by services from the Teenage Health Unit | Yvonne Quan | Anne Cockcroft | C$15,000 | 12 months |
| Apr 2024-Mar 2027 | CIHR Project Grants | Reviving social interaction for healthy aging: a feasibility study of participatory engagement of older adults in dementia prevention | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$888,165 | 3 years |
| Apr 2024-Mar 2025 | CIHR Project Grants, Priority Announcements Funding | Youth co-design prevention of gendered personal and interpersonal violence in Botswana | Anne Cockcroft | Neil Andersson | C$100,000 | 12 months |
| Feb 2023-Jan 2025 | NFRF 2022 Special Call | Building on strength: using local knowledge to inform evidence-based community-led decision-making for COVID-19 recovery | Anne Cockcroft | Neil Andersson | C$497,869 | 2 years |
| June 2021-Mar 2024 | WAGE (Women and Equality Canada) Pathways2Equity: | Youth-led, Indigenous-Focussed, Gender-Transformative, Arts-Based Approaches to Challenging Gender Norms in Addressing gender-based violence | Claudia Mitchell | Neil Andersson | C$1m | 3 years |
| Oct 2021-Sep 2026 | CIHR Project Grants | Co-designed cultural safety in Nunavik: proof-of-impact | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$1,889,550 | 5 years |
| Oct 2021-Sep 2026 | CIHR Project Grants | Impact oriented dialogue for culturally safe adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Bauchi State | Anne Cockcroft | Neil Andersson | C$1,430,550 | 5 years |
| 2021-2026 | University of Limerick, Ireland | Health Research Board-Clinical Research Facility | Paul Burke | Neil Andersson | €333,57 | 5 years |
| Mar 2020-Mar 2025 | CIHR Project Grants | Decolonizing childbirth with Nunavik Inuit women transferred to high-risk hospitals for childbirth: a co-designed pilot intervention | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$1,718,955 | 5 years |
| 2020-2025 | SSHRC Partnership Development Grant | Anti-Indigenous racism and cultural safety in maternal and child healthcare for Inuit: Perspectives from Arviat, Nunavut | Zoua Vang | Neil Andersson | C$450,000 | 3 years |
| 2020-2024 | CIHR Network Catalyst Grant | Training Network for Youth Mental Health | Jai Shah | Neil Andersson | C$700,000 | 4 years |
| 2020-2024 | CIHR Project Grant. | Development and piloting of culturally safe training programs for community health workers on TB in Nunavik | Faiz Ahmad | Neil Andersson | C$700,000 | 4 years |
| 2019-2024 | CIHR | NEIHR Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research | Treena Delormier | Neil Andersson | C$3,500,000 | 5 years |
Previous Grants
Date | Program/Entity | Project Title | PI/NPI | Co-PI/Co-I/ Co-Applicant | Amount | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2024 | SSHRC | Building a theoretical framework for a youth-led videogame intervention: Lessons from the Road Ahead videogame | Manuela Ferrari | Neil Andersson | $75,000 | 2 years |
| 2021-2022 | CIHR Project Grants, Priority Announcements Funding | Impact oriented dialogue for culturally safe adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Bauchi State | Anne Cockcroft | Neil Andersson | C$100,000 | 12 months |
| 2020-2021 | Quebec Population Health Research Network | Socialising evidence for participatory action: promoting local sustainability of universal home visits in Bauchi State | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$7,500 | 12 months |
| 2020-2021 | Quebec Population Health Research Network | Exploring equity, diversity, and inclusion in a home visits program to improve maternal and child health | Loubna Belaid | Anne Cockcroft | C$5,000 | - |
| 2020-2021 | FRQ Solutions COVID-19 | Young People, Well-being, and Connectedness in the Time of Distancing | Claudia Mitchell | Neil Andersson | C$200,000 | 12 months |
| 2017-2021 | IDRC with CIHR and Global Affairs Canada | Synergies in video edutainment: child spacing and regional training for rollout in Bauchi | Anne Cockcroft | Neil Andersson | C$484,598 | 3 years |
| 2015-2020 | IDRC with CIHR and Global Affairs Canada | Video edutainment on the doorstep: impact on maternal mortality and morbidity in Toro local authority in Bauchi State | Yagana Gidado | Anne Cockcroft | C$997,102 | 61 months |
| 2019-2022 | CIHR | IIIip Paanganik Quajisamiq: Adapting cervical cancer screening strategies for Inuit women of Nunavik | Paul Brassard | Neil Andersson | $450,000 | 3 years |
| 2019-2020 | Grand Challenges Canada | Beyond Victims and Villains: working with communities to reduce intimate partner violence among marginalized young women | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$100,000 | 12 months |
| 2019-2020 | CIHR | Co-designed universal home visits improve maternal and neonatal outcomes: Proof-of-impact in post-conflict northern Uganda | Loubna Belaid | - | C$100,000 | 12 months |
| 2019-2020 | CIHR project bridging grant | Culturally safe flyout, Nunavik | Neil Andersson | - | C$100,000 | 12 months |
| 2018-2020 | Grand Challenge Canada Innovation grant | A Community-based context-sensitive intervention to improve maternal, neonatal, and reproductive health in Northern Uganda | Neil Andersson | - | C$100,000 | 2 years |
| 2018-2021 | CIHR | Sustainable, healthy cities: A cluster randomized controlled trial for Aedes control in Brazil | Kate Zinszer | Neil Andersson | $1,063,351 | 3 years |
| 2017-2024 | CIHR Quebec Indigenous Health Research Mentorship Network | Network of five Quebec universities | Neil Andersson | - | C$1m | 7 years |
| 2017-2018 | Soutien-QC Participatory methods development fund | Validation and Refining of Weight of Evidence: Evidence synthesis to reconcile patient, provider, and policy perspectives | Neil Andersson | - | C$40,000 | 12 months |
| 2017-2020 | CIHR SPOR network Diabetes Action Canada | Indigenous People Health | Gary Lewis | Neil Andersson | $12.5m | 3 years |
| 2017-2020 | IDRC Synergy Grant | Antenatal care at the doorstep: Research and capacity building to support sustainability and scale-up of the home visits intervention | Anne Cockcroft | Neil Andersson | $500,000 | 3 years |
| 2017-2019 | Steinberg Fund for Multidisciplinary Global Health Research (McGill) | Men as protagonists in improving maternal and child health: Intervention research in marginalized indigenous communities in Guatemala | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$45,000 | 18 months |
| 2016-2018 | Steinberg Fund for Multidisciplinary Global Health Research (McGill) | Game of Zones: Transforming vector control mindsets to combat Aedes aegypti in Latin America | Neil Andersson | - | C$45,000 | 18 months |
| 2016-2017 | CIHR Funds for research dissemination | Disseminating findings from a social network analysis and co-designing strategies for reaching and engaging HIV vulnerable young women | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$20,000 | 12 months |
| 2015-2018 | ArcticNet | Diarrhoeal Illness and Enteric Infections Among Young Children in Nunavik and Nunavut | Cedric Yansouni | - | C$200,000 | 3 years |
| 2015-2020 | CIHR | Increasing immunization coverage among children in India through participatory learning and community mobilization | Mira Johri | Neil Andersson | C$569,292 | 5 years |
| 2014-2020 | CIHR and Graham Boeck Foundation | ACCESS Open Minds – Adolescent/young adult Connections to Community-driven, Early, Strengths-based and stigma-free Services | NPI: Ashok Malla | Neil Andersson | C$25m | 6 years |
| 2014-2018 | IDRC | Reducing HIV risk in Botswana: a national cluster randomised controlled trial (INSTRUCT) | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$2,397,500 | 5 years |
| 2014-2017 | CONACyT | Institutionalization of Camino Verde, an ecologically sustainable proposal to reduce the risk of dengue in Guerrero, Mexico | Elizabeth Nava | Neil Andersson | C$300,000 | 3 years |
| 2014-2017 | CIHR | ARHNETS for indigenous knowledge | Charlotte Reading | - | C$600,000 | 3 years |
| 2014-2016 | SADC HIV and AIDS Special Fund | Capacity building for HIV researchers in three SADC member states | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$653,236 | 2 years |
| 2014-2016 | SADC HIV and AIDS Special Fund | Capacity building for HIV researchers in nine SADC member states | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$658,508 | 2 years |
| 2013-2017 | CONACyT | Impact of intercultural brokers on safe birth in cultural safety in indigenous communities of Guerrero, Mexico | Sergio Paredes | Neil Andersson | C$300,000 | 4 years |
| 2013-2015 | CIHR | Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research (NEAHR) | Fred Wein | - | C$10m | 2 years |
| 2010-2014 | CIHR, DFATD, and IDRC | African Development of AIDS Prevention Trials capacities, Phase 2 (ADAPT 2) | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$1,800,000 | 5 years |
| 2009-2014 | CIHR | Centre for intercultural research on the prevention of gender violence | Neil Andersson | - | C$2m | 5 years |
| 2009-2014 | CIHR | Violence prevention projects with immigrant groups and urban Aboriginal residents | Neil Andersson | - | C$2m | 5 years |
| 2009-2013 | CIHR | Community-led reduction of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities | Neil Andersson | - | C$1.94m | 4 years |
| 2009-2014 | DFATD-IDRC | Nigerian Evidence-based Health Planning Initiative in Bauchi and Cross River State | Neil Andersson | - | C$12.5m | 5 years |
| 2008 | IDRC | Nigerian Evidence-based Health Planning pilot in Cross River State | Neil Andersson | - | $800,000 | 12 months |
| 2008-2013 | IDRC | AIDS prevention for the underserved majority of the AIDS epidemic: the choice disabled. A randomised controlled trial of prevention interventions in Southern Africa | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$840,000 | 5 years |
| 2008-2013 | CIHR | ACADRE/NEAHR: Mentoring and fellowships for 44 Aboriginal health researchers | Neil Andersson | - | C$6m | 5 years |
| 2008-2015 | UBS Optimus Foundation | Camino Verde: Cluster randomized controlled trial of dengue prevention in Mexico and Nicaragua | neil Andersson | - | C$3.5m | 7 years |
| 2008-2009 | IDRC | Demonstration community-based social audit of health services in two districts of Afghanistan | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$150,000 | 12 months |
| 2007-2011 | UBS Optimus Foundation (Switzerland) | Infant survival in cultural safety – cluster randomized controlled trial in Xochistlahuaca, Mexico | Neil Andersson | - | $482,500 | 4 years |
| 2007-2014 | Global Health Research Initiative | African Development of AIDS Prevention trials (ADAPT): training of planners and legislators | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$3.65m | 7 years |
| 2007 | EU (Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication) | Evaluation of mass media campaign on HIV knowledge, attitudes and practices | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$638,821 | 12 months |
| 2006 | IDRC | Community views of antiretroviral therapy: strengthening stakeholder information systems in southern Africa | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$150,000 | - |
| 2005-2011 | CIHR-ACRA | The role of resilience in responding to blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections in indigenous communities | Neil Andersson | - | $1.65m | 6 years |
| 2004-2010 | CIHR-ACYRN | Aboriginal community youth resilience network: A suicide prevention initiative in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Alberta | Neil Andersson | - | $1.44m | 6 years |
| 2004-2005 | UNDP | Social audit: local tools for poverty reduction and local empowerment in Thailand | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$165,087 | 18 months |
| 2004 | DfID, UK | Madarsahs as social support (in Pakistan) | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$42,272 | 12 months |
| 2003-2005 | UNDP | Social audit in Pakistan | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$1,631,030 | 3 years |
| 2002-2006 | CIDA | Citizen community boards: local tools for governance and community monitoring in Pakistan | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$1,000,000 | 5 years |
| 2001-2004 | DfID, UK, and UNDP | Social audit of abuse against women in Pakistan | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$935,062 | 4 years |
| 2004 | UNFPA | Maldives follow-up reproductive health survey (technical support) | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$26,364 | 12 months |
| 1999-2004 | CIDA via World Bank | Three service delivery surveys for evaluation of the Health and Population Sector Programme (HPSP) in Bangladesh | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$1,000,000 | 5 years |
| 1999-2003 | DfID, UK via Health and Life Sciences Partnership | Baseline and follow-up community based surveys for evaluation of the Hospital Improvement Initiative | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$90,136 | 12 months |
| 2002 | OECD | Community-based surveys on corruption in key service sectors in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$355,918 | 12 months |
| 2001 | Royal Netherlands Embassy, Ethiopia | Pilot social audit of relief food aid in Ethiopia | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$131,822 | 12 months |
| 1999-2000 | Health Canada | Local Public Health Infrastructure Development (LoPHID) | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$4,000,000 | 2 years |
| 1998-1999 | UNFPA | Maldives baseline reproductive health survey | Anne Cockcroft | - | C$77,774 | 12 months |
| 1998 | World Bank via Government of Uganda | National Integrity Survey | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$272,212 | 12 months |
| 1996 | World Bank | Service delivery survey: police, judiciary, revenue and lands services in Tanzania | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$114,685 | 12 months |
| 1995-1998 | UNICEF | Nepal Multiple Indicator Surveillance (NMIS). Four cycles of data collection and use | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$395,465 | 4 years |
| 1995–1996 | World Bank via Government of Uganda | Service delivery survey of health and agriculture services | Neil Andersson | Anne Cockcroft | C$60,000 | 12 months |
