Team Grant: Health Effects of Ultra-Processed Foods │ Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

For an application to be eligible, all the requirements stated below must be met:

1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be an independent researcher affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution and/or its affiliated institutions (including hospitals, research institutes and other non-profit organizations with a mandate for health research and/or knowledge mobilization).
2. The NPA must have their substantive role in Canada for the duration of the requested grant term.
3. The Institution Paid receives and administers the funds on behalf of the NPA and therefore must be authorized by CIHR before the funds can be released.
4. Research teams must be comprised of no more than four (4) Principal Applicants (PAs) in addition to the NPA. Note that an individual can fulfill multiple participant types.
5. The NPA and all PAs must have successfully completed one of the Sex and Gender Training Modules available online through the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and submit a Certificate of Completion by the full application deadline (see How to Apply for more details).
6. Inclusion of other applicant roles (i.e., Co-Applicants, Knowledge Users (KUs), and collaborators) is optional, but the following eligibility criteria must also be met by the NPA and PAs or additional applicants.
   1. The research team must be interdisciplinary and must include at least one (1) Early Career Researcher (ECR) in the role of NPA,PA or Co-Applicant. ECR eligibility status must be met by the full application deadline date. Refer to How to Apply to provide ECR status.
   2. For any research applications involving First Nations, Inuit, and Métis populations, research teams must include at least one applicant who self-identifies as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis) and/or provides evidence of having meaningful and culturally safe involvement with Indigenous Peoples (see How to Apply for more details).

Notes:

1. An individual cannot submit more than one (1) application to this funding opportunity as an NPA and cannot participate on more than two (2) applications as PA. If the NPA submits more than one application, CIHR will automatically withdraw the subsequent application(s) submitted based on timestamp of submission.
2. PAs can be added to a team but not removed or exchanged between Letter of Intent and Full Application.