Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions Programs
Grants & Awards
AIHS offers personnel support to senior researchers in the province. AIHS also provides support to researchers-in-training to pursue their training through studentship, fellowship, and clinical fellowship programs.
ForeFront
AIHS's technology commercialization program - ForeFront - assists researchers and innovators in knowledge translation by providing mentorship, education and early stage funding for the development of new and innovative products and services that lead to improved health.
Research Ethics Initiatives
The Research Ethics Initiative unit of AIHS serves as a catalyst to capacity building action on emerging issues related to the dynamic area of health research ethics. It currently provides leadership and support to such action through two unique initiatives:
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Community Research Ethics Board of Alberta (CREBA)
Although supported by AIHS, CREBA is an autonomous research ethics board. Its mandate is to provide Alberta researchers, who don't have access to another research ethics board, with the opportunity to receive ethics review of proposed research.
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Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI)
ARECCI is a collaboration of Alberta's Research Ethics Boards, Regional Health Authorities, and Alberta Health and Wellness working together to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the ethics review process for knowledge generating processes across the health system. Recommendations are currently being pilot tested across the province.
Knowledge Translation Initiatives
Knowledge Translation Initiatives (KTI) champions the use of knowledge translation strategies to promote evidence-informed decision making in Alberta's health care community; in other words, helping to ensure that research results inform practice and practice, and that policy and practice concerns inform research:
- Supports and participates in research on knowledge translation
- Disseminates research and other information on knowledge translation
- Creates opportunities for decision makers and researchers to interact
KTI supports the Health Research Transfer Network of Alberta; a unique network of more than 700 researchers, policy, practice decision makers and Knowledge Brokers interested and engaged in knowledge translation.
Communications and Education
AIHS's Communications and Education staff bring Alberta research accomplishments, innovations, and discoveries to public and government attention. Publications, media work, website management, and educational events are just some of the tools to tell these stories.
Performance Management
The Performance Management unit evaluates the effectiveness of AIHS's programs in order to improve the foundations impact at provincial, national and international levels. The unit works in collaboration with its stakeholders in order to implement performance measures and disseminate the findings to improve the transparency, performance, and accountability of the Foundation.
Health Technology Assessment
The Health Technology Assessment Unit (HTA) has moved to the Institute of Health Economics (IHE).