Heart and Stroke Cardiac Arrest Research Team Grants

Sponsor

Heart & Stroke, together with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) and Brain Canada

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Description

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (“Heart & Stroke”) is supporting the development of a National Action Plan for Cardiac Arrest to increase survival and optimize quality of life of those impacted (directly and indirectly) by cardiac arrest.

As a key pillar of the action plan, Heart & Stroke together with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (“CIHR-ICRH”) and Brain Canada Foundation (“Brain Canada”) are collectively committing $5,000,000 CAD over five (5) years to fund the Cardiac Arrest Research Team Grants funding opportunity. This funding opportunity is coordinated with the American Heart Association (“AHA”) Cardiac Arrest funding opportunity to encourage collaboration and partnership of funded Cardiac Arrest Research Teams (“Research Teams”) to leverage, amplify and coordinate research activities where appropriate.

Despite sustained efforts to improve cardiac arrest survival rates, the overall figures have predominantly remained unchanged for several decades. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to address the most urgent and emergent questions as well as current evidence gaps in cardiac arrest with the aim of improving prediction and early detection of cardiac arrest, increasing survival rates, and optimizing survivor health outcomes and quality of life (QoL) outcomes for all affected. 

To achieve this, the Research Teams will focus on one of three priority research areas: 

• Prediction and Early Detection of Cardiac Arrest;
• Accelerate Response and Increase Survival of Cardiac Arrest; or,
• Optimize Brain Recovery After Cardiac Arrest. 

The Research Teams are expected to bring together multi-institutional, multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary health research teams (e.g., researchers, clinicians, health care providers, people with lived experience (PWLE) including equity-deserving groups, Indigenous community members, Elders and/or Knowledge Keepers, government, policy makers, not-for-profit organizations and industry) to create and mobilize knowledge that will improve survival and optimize recovery of individuals who experience a cardiac arrest, their families and caregivers.

Indirect Costs

0% per guidelines