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SEED GRANT CALL SUMMER 2006 CALL IN THE AREAS OF:  
Urban Physical Environments and Health
		Food Security and Urban Agriculture
		Neighbourhoods and Health

Deadline for application:  September 29, 2006

The Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI), funded by the Canadian
Institute of Health Research (CIHR), facilitates the development of
high-quality, innovative, action-oriented research that investigates the
effects of local physical and social environments on the health of urban
residents.  CUHI is committed to supporting research that privileges
community input and/or whose outcomes have community and policy relevance. 

To help fulfill this mandate, CUHI provides seed grants for pilot projects,
literature reviews, testing of innovative methodologies and partnership
building.   Priority is given to funding research development activities
that will help with the background preparation and submission of grant
proposals to other funding agencies.  Priority will also be given to
research applications that have partnerships between academics, community
agencies and policy-makers.  

Research projects should relate to the topics of interest in this seed grant
call by one or more of CUHI's Research Interest Groups: 

1.         Urban Physical Environments and Health 

*	Relationship between environmental quality, exposure to a range of
toxins and/or pathogens and/or potential health effects 
*	Neighbourhood-scale differences in selected aspects of environmental
quality 
*	Explorations of the impact of selected policies and/or best
practices on urban environmental quality and by connection, wellness.
 
2.	Food Security and Urban Agriculture

*	mechanisms to assess neighbourhood-level food security
*	interventions to improve food security in neighbourhoods
*	analysis and evaluation of Canadian food policy at the local,
regional, or national scales

3.         Neighbourhoods and Health.

*	research that describes, analyzes and investigates the pathways by
which the dynamics of social, economic, service and built environment
attributes of urban neighbourhoods shape health status across the life
course.


Seed grant awards are available for projects of up to one year in length.

For more details of the Seed Grant Award and copies of the application
guidelines and forms, please visit us online at http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca 



Alexis Kane Speer
Centre Coordinator
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI)
University College, Room 259
University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
416-978-7223
FAX: 416-946-0669


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