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Health Solutions Strategy Highlights
Turning research into Health and Wellbeing

OUR VISION
Transforming Health and Wellness through Research and Innovation

OUR MANDATE
We support health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans and create through innovation, health related social and economic benefits for Albertans.




Building better health and wellbeing

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions manages initiatives, investments and partnerships and has processes and expertise to help develop globally competitive health research and innovation capacity and activity in Alberta.

Key areas of focus:

  • Application and translation of knowledge
  • AIHS offers expertise, funding, and activities in Knowledge Transfer, Communications and Education, and Research Ethics.

  • A balanced portfolio of high quality curiosity-based and problem-led health research
  • AIHS has systems, processes, expertise and funding to ensure supported health research and innovation activity is relevant, competitive, and of the highest quality. AIHS maintains support for legacy programs of the former AHFMR.

  • Measure the impact of our investments
  • AIHS has performance management expertise to evaluate health research activity for impacts and delivery on mandate.

  • Align to Alberta’s needs and priorities
  • AIHS strategies and operations support the Alberta Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS).

  • Build on our assets and opportunities for partnership
  • AIHS develops and sustains partnerships within and beyond Alberta to leverage funding and impact; and, with stakeholder engagement, creates new initiatives to build upon our health research and innovation strengths.