Hacking CIHR Funding with an EDI Lens

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*Cette session sera interpréter en direct de l’anglais vers le français.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research provide trainee scholarships for Masters, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral level trainees. CIHR Trainee applications require a significant time investment and months of preparation. Moreover, while the instructions are available online, there is a lot of knowledge between the lines that come from decades of experience supporting and writing award-winning applications for CIHR. Join Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell for a frank conversation about applying for CIHR trainee awards, with unique considerations for individuals with lived experience with marginalization. Because applications should be a collaboration between trainees and supervisors, supervisors are also encouraged to attend.

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  Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell is the Nominated Principal Investigator for DIVERT Mental Health. She is the Tier 1 York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health and Director of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt Laboratory (OUCH Lab ; www.yorku.ca/ouchlab) in the Department of Psychology of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is also a registered clinical psychologist, focused on her practice in perinatal/parent mental health, infant mental health, and chronic pain. As both a basic behavioural scientist and a clinician-scientist, Dr. Pillai Riddell leads a multi-national research program that studies parents and babies during painful procedures. Her research is funded by all three national Canadian research councils (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council). She is also involved extensively in supporting EDI initiatives in research ecosystems. She also leads an open-access online learning platform for Canadian researchers on how to adjudicate more inclusively and supportively (https://www.yorku.ca/research/project/polaris/). Dr. Pillai Riddell is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. She was also recently awarded the 2020 Canadian Pain Society’s Outstanding Mentorship Award and the 2019 American Pain Society’s Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain.