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Your Candidates, Your Health

Your Candidates, Your Health is an election initiative created by Research Canada: An Alliance for Health Discovery. This website provides an information-sharing resource for Research Canada Members, Supporters and Partners as well as for federal election Candidates and Canadians generally.

Research Canada hopes it will stimulate discussion during Election 2015 among all Canadians about the critical importance of health research and health innovation to the health and well-being of Canadians.

Research Canada

Research Canada is a national, broad-based alliance dedicated to advancing health research through collaborative advocacy.

Canadians have long been concerned about diseases such as cancer, heart and stroke disease, diabetes and arthritis. Increasingly, they are also concerned about respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia. But they also understand the importance of health research and look to health researchers to find solutions to a wide range of health challenges.

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Canadians are also increasingly aware that progress in health research leads to tangible economic benefits for Canada. Investments in health research lead to innovation and commercialization opportunities and ultimately jobs for Canadians.

Through Research Canada’s strategic activities, we engage all sectors – including government – to build support for health research. We reach out to media, elected officials, and policy makers to bring greater attention to the critical importance of long-term, sustainable health research funding as an investment in Canada’s future. Only through sustained and balanced investments in health research will Canada succeed in keeping its citizens the healthiest in the world and in becoming an innovation nation. Our Mission is to improve the health and prosperity of all Canadians by championing Canada’s global leadership in health research.

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Members, Supporters and Partners

Healthcare facilities, hospitals and research institutes

– Advanced Medical Research Institute of Canada

– Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care

– Canadian Institutes for Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction

– Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science

– Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

– CHEO Research Institute

– Child & Family Research Institute

– Covenant Health Research Centre

– Douglas Mental Health University Institute

– Hôpital Sainte-Justine Research Centre

– Infectious Diseases Research Centre of Laval University

– Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM)

– Kingston General Hospital

– Lawson Health Research Institute

– Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

– MaRS Innovation

– McGill University Health Centre Research Institute

– Montreal Heart Institute

– Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (McGill University)

– NeuroDevNet

– Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

– Providence Health Care Research Institute

– SickKids Research Institute

– Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

– Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre

– Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute

– Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

– University Health Network

– University of Ottawa Heart Institute

– University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research

– Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

Universities and faculties

– McMaster University

– PERFORM Centre, Concordia University

– Queen’s University, Faculty of Health Sciences

– University of Manitoba, Faculty of Medicine

– University of New Brunswick

– University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine

– University of Western Ontario

– York University

– University of Saskatchewan

Health authorities

– Alberta Health Services

– Capital District Health Authority and IWK Health Centre

– Provincial Health Services Authority, BC

 

National organizations

– BIOTECanada

– Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D)

– HealthCareCAN

Networks and consortia

– Friends of CIHR

– Canadian Consortium for Nursing Research

– Council for Canadian Child Health Research

– Invest Ottawa

– Pan Provincial Vaccine Enterprise (PREVENT)

Health charities and foundations

– Alzheimer Society of Canada

– Brain Canada Foundation

– Crohn’s and Colitis Canada

– Cystic Fibrosis Canada

– Canadian Diabetes Association

– Canadian Pain Society 

– Graham Boeckh Foundation

– Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

– Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

– Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada

– March of Dimes Canada

– National Initiative for Eating Disorders

– Neurological Health Charities Canada

– Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation

– Parkinson Society Canada

Professional associations

– Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists

– Canadian Dental Hygienists Association

– Canadian Nurses Association

– Canadian Physiotherapy Association

– Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario

– Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Scientific societies

– Canadian Society for Immunology

– Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences

 

Granting councils

– Canada Foundation for Innovation

– Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

– Genome Canada

– Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

Private sector

– AstraZeneca Canada

– Bioniche Life Sciences

– Fisher Scientific Canada

– GE Healthcare Canada

– Genzyme Canada

– GlaxoSmithKline Inc.

– Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd.

– Janssen Inc.

– Lilly Canada

– Merck Canada

– Paladin Labs

– Pfizer Canada Inc.

– Purdue Pharma Canada

– Sanofi Pasteur

– Shift Health

– Valeant Canada

– Wellbeings Pain Management and Dependency Clinic

International organizations

– Research!America

– Research Australia

– Research!Sweden

R7*

– Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations

– Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada

– BIOTECanada

– Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D)

– Health Charities Coalition of Canada

– MEDEC – Canada’s Medical Device Technology Companies

*The R7 is a partnership of organizations that develops consensus around policy focused on improving the health and wealth of Canadians.

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