Dementia Research and Innovation Funders Alliance
A voice for healthy brain aging
The Dementia Research and Innovation Funders Alliance (“The Alliance”) is an integral component of the new CIHR Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment in Aging (BHCIA) Research Initiative to foster collaboration between research funders across Canada to maximize impact in dementia research through collaboration.
The Dementia Research and Innovation Funders Alliance will support innovation, enhance collaboration, and find impactful ways to mobilize research findings from brain health and dementia research in Canada. To facilitate the launch of the Alliance, CIHR-IA worked with key partners (Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation, Healthcare Excellence Canada, Alzheimer Society of Canada and Brain Canada Foundation) to bring together research funders and other partners in research across Canada working in brain health and dementia research for an inaugural event in Toronto, Ontario on November 2nd, 2023.
Key objectives of the alliance
- Encourage dementia research and innovation funders to speak with one voice to align their dementia research investment strategy across Canada.
- Provide a forum for funders to work together to leverage and amplify dementia research, promote capacity building and training, scan the current dementia research landscape, compile and analyze data of all Canadian funded dementia research, identify research gaps and needs, and mobilize knowledge gained through dementia research.
- Support and enable the delivery and implementation of the research component of the research and innovation pillar of Canada’s National Dementia Strategy.
Key objectives of the launch event
- Generate excitement among future members and other interested parties for the possibilities of the Alliance to align, leverage and amplify dementia research investments and activities across Canada.
- Convene key players to define key deliverables, milestones, and identify future activities of the Alliance.
- Share with the public and research community the importance of the Alliance to enhance collaboration amongst the dementia community across Canada.
Partners
The launch of the Alliance would not have been possible without the participation of our partners:
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Society of Canada
- Alzheimer Society of Canada
- Azrieli Foundation
- Brain Canada
- Canadian Brain Research Strategy
- Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence
- Canadian Coalition for Seniors Mental Health
- Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation
- Canadians for Leading Edge Alzheimer Research
- Healthcare Excellence Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation
- HelpAge Canada
- Krembil Foundation
- National Research Council
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council
- Ontario Brain Institute
- Ontario Ministry of Health
- Parkinson Canada
- Reena
- Weston Family Foundation
- Women’s Brain Health Initiative
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