Applications to the 2024 Catalyst Grant competition are now closed
Catalyst Grant Description:
The NHP’s Catalyst Grants will focus on building and growing collaborations between academics, researchers, clinicians and the Peel Region community. Grants will be awarded to support projects that aim to develop, expand, or adapt evidence-informed programs, interventions, or evaluations that align to the Network’s mission: To reduce social inequities in risk and burden of diabetes and other chronic diseases through better care, lower risk factors and healthier living environments.
Awards will be granted following a rigorous peer review by the Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations’ Review Committee which is comprised of individuals with expertise in the proposal’s subject area.
The goals of this catalyst grant opportunity are to:
Identify, adapt, and pilot test evidence-informed solutions to address the rising risk or burden of diabetes and chronic disease that are locally relevant, feasible, and equitable for Peel Region.
Spark interdisciplinary collaboration across sectors to foster the creation of partnerships between researchers, policymakers, knowledge users, and people with lived experience to collectively implement relevant, feasible, effective, and equitable solutions.
Mobilize diverse methodologies from across multiple disciplines and perspectives, and knowledge mobilization approaches to generate evidence that is relevant and useful for local stakeholders.
Generate pilot data on local implementation of evidence-informed interventions to support longer-term evaluation of impact on health outcomes and scale and scale to other regions.
Funding Guidelines:
Award Amount: Grants will be awarded up to $100,000 for 1 year, based on submitted budgets.
Deadline: Full applications are due April 1, 2024, 5:00pm EDT (Online Form)
Exclusions: Current Catalyst Grant Fund holders are excluded from applying as Nominated Principal Applicants and cannot hold funds for more than one NHP Catalyst Grant at a time. Current NHP Catalyst Grant holders may apply as Co-Applicants, Collaborators etc., as long as they are not holding funds.
This funding is not to be used as bridging or emergency funding, nor is it intended to support ongoing studies. It may, however, support a new direction of a previously funded project, and can be combined with additional funding to support new projects. A clear rationale for this should be provided in the application.
