AHFMR Programs

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1. Grants and Awards

2. ForeFront   Applying Health Research through Commercialization

3. Research Ethics Initiatives

   • Community Research Ethics Board of Alberta (CREBA)

   • Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI)

4. Health Technology Assessment

5. Research Transfer Initiatives

6. Communications and Education
   

7. Performance Management

1. Grants & Awards

   AHFMR offers personnel support to senior researchers in the province. The Foundation also provides support to researchers-in-training to pursue their training through studentship, fellowship, and clinical fellowship programs.

2. ForeFront

   AHFMR'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.

3. Research Ethics Initiatives

   The Research Ethics Initiative unit of AHFMR 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:

   • Community Research Ethics Board of Alberta (CREBA)

     Although supported by AHFMR, 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.

   • 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.

4. Health Technology Assessment

   The Health Technology Assessment Unit (HTA) has moved to the Institute of Health Economics (IHE).

5. Research Transfer Initiatives

   Research Transfer Initiatives (RTI) champions the use of knowledge transfer 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 transfer
   • Disseminates research and other information on knowledge transfer
   • Creates opportunities for decision makers and researchers to interact

   RTI supports the Research Transfer Network of Alberta; a unique network of more than 400 researchers, policy and practice decision makers interested and engaged in knowledge transfer.

6. Communications and Education

   AHFMR's Communications and Education staff bring Heritage 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 the AHFMR story.

7. Performance Management

   The Performance Management unit evaluates the effectiveness of AHFMR'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.