Services

We co-ordinate operational and administrative reviews and approvals for all research that is conducted within Covenant.

We can help you find an appropriate grant for your research project. Covenant Health is a Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-eligible institution.

There are many sources of funding for health research projects. We recommend that you start searching for funding and preparing applications as early as possible since they can take weeks and even months to complete.

Covenant researchers can email researchprojects@covenanthealth.ca for research development, grant assistance and other internal services.

Primary external grant opportunities

• Alberta Innovates: a provincial organization that provides funding for health research
• Canadian Institutes for Health Research: the principal federal government health research funding mechanism in Canada
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and training in the humanities and social sciences
• National Institute of Health (NIH): the principal federal government research funding mechanism in the United States. Covenant Health is registered and eligible to receive grant awards through NIH.

We can help you share your research findings and offer appropriate knowledge exchange opportunities at Covenant. We offer a monthly update for subscribers about Covenant research publications, events and other research news.

We offer many opportunities for sharing findings and exchanging knowledge, including:

• professional practice/leadership review
• lunch and learn presentations
• stakeholder consults, engagement, meetings and workshops

All researchers at Covenant must provide a final report. Our professional practice leaders review relevant final reports to identify opportunities to bring findings into practice.

On completing your project, please also submit any outputs (e.g., articles, posters, publications, etc.) that were produced.

Submit a final report

Resources

• Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit’s Learning Health System
• Guide to Knowledge Translation Planning at CIHR

We offer Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) courses for researchers and their teams.

The Alberta Clinical Research Consortium — Education Working Group has developed a set of provincial training recommendations for anyone conducting clinical health research in Alberta.

All training is available free of charge for Covenant staff, physicians and volunteers.

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative

Covenant Health in partnership with N2 Canada provides the following CITI Canada courses:

• Good Clinical Practice
• Good Clinical Practice Refresher
• Health Canada Division 5 — Drugs for Clinical Trials Involving Human Subjects
• Biomedical Research Ethics
• Responsible Conduct of Research
• Transportation of Dangerous Goods

CITI courses are compliant with good clinical practice and Health Canada. Many pharmaceutical companies and clinical research associations, such as AstraZeneca, Novartis and TransCelerate Biopharma, have accepted them as evidence of training.

For course descriptions and access, visit CLiC and search “Research.” If you do not have access to CLiC, email research@covenanthealth.ca for more information.

Other research courses are available through CITI. Covenant Health does not fund them, and you may need to cover the cost.