Team Grant : Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness
“Canadian Institutes of Health Research”
$2,000,000.00
Maximum Eligible Amount
Government Grant
Fund Type
The Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness will support Indigenous-led and community-driven research that aims to reverse the upward trajectory of diabetes and associated co-morbidities (e.g. cardiometabolic disease) among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples and their communities. The objective of this component is to define and integrate models of resilience and wellness into diabetes prevention and treatment approaches among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples.
The Team Grants in Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness will support Indigenous-led and community-driven research to define and integrate models of resilience and wellness into diabetes prevention and/or treatment approaches among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples, covering at least one of the following research areas: mental wellness, spiritual health, ceremony, and connection to community, the land and culture; social determinants of health; health promotion and prevention research, especially among children and youth; supporting the health of community health workers/workforce; integrating Indigenous knowledges and Western science (Indigenous and non-Indigenous research paradigms); related diabetes complications and co-morbidities e.g. heart failure/coronary artery disease, stroke, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis.
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