MRC Notes
This series is based on notes that I took when I attended the Medical Research Council (MRC) HCV Conference in Ottawa on January 15 &16, 1999. While every attempt has been made to maintain accuracy, you must keep in mind that these are only my personal notes.
Darlene Morrow
Mark Wheeler from Health Canada
Funding
1. The Goals of HCV Research
- to improve the cope come up those people who have become HCV infected and to reduce the probability of infection among those who do not have it.
2. Research
-not a freestanding strategies but rather an integral part of a larger knowledge strategy.
- knowledge generation: to expand the stock of relevant knowledge.
- knowledge transfer: to assemble, package and delivered to the right people.
- knowledge use: the best practices of prevention and care.
3. Integration is the key
- lookback/traceback
- communities/NGO action
- research
A Vision of Transformation Through Integration
- CIHR: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research www.cihr.com
This network will be integrated across the country. It will involve scientific disciplines, Health Systems, and national health agendas. It must be in competitive, sustainable Research enterprise. The strategy will evolve and integrate with public health and health care.
How Do We Do It?
1. Time limited funding to incubate Research to/from the networks.
2. Linkages with HIV/AIDS injection drug programming
3. CFI proposals for infrastructure
4. An NCE application in two or three years
5. Fully competitive MRC and NIH grant proposal
6. Perhaps a separate Institute for Infectious Disease and Immunology
The present sources of funding are the MRC, CLF, and the NCIC.
We need to address:
1. how to bring the power of science on HCV
2. create intelligent networks
MRC Supported Research
HCV grants- 3
Liver Research- 41
Indirectly related Research- 47 ( immunology, drug therapy, etc)
CLF
3 establishment grants-1 in hepatitis
5 operating grants-2 in hepatitis
NCIC 1998-not including MRC
675 grants- 2 on liver cancer
NHRDP 1996
6 in hepatitis
Future 96 - 01 accepted studies in
Population Health
Health impact of public policy
Renewals and restructuring the health care system
Research on methodology
Health Transition Fund
Three year -$150 million in 1997
- no HCV
We do not know if this program will be renewed.