the hiv endgame program supports people and projects (including innovative, discovery-based and investigator-driven-game-changing projects) that have the potential to:

• meet the needs of populations in ontario most affected by hiv.
• drive changes in policy and practice across the hiv prevention, engagement, and care cascade.
• lead to more integrated health and social services.
• identify effective ways to address the social determinants that have a negative impact on the health of communities most affected by hiv.
• contribute to a rapid learning hiv health and social system.

cimvhr is administering a call for proposals (cfp) to identify a researcher/research team that can successfully undertake a literature review examining the body of literature on volunteering among canadian armed forces veterans and military members. it will aim to identify volunteering preferences, patterns, and key impacts on veteran well-being, particularly to improve the military-to- civilian transition.

for more information, please contact jill sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

the specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

1. support the development of structured, openly available, diverse, inclusive and sustainable training and mentoring platforms that build canadian capacity in areas of health research, health issues, scientific opportunities and critical gaps by:
   • supporting the engagement of diverse trainees and early career researchers (ecrs) in collaborative research across institutions, disciplines, jurisdictions and sectors;
   • incorporating diverse training approaches, including experiential training opportunities;
   • including diverse and inclusive paradigms of research training and mentoring (e.g., indigenous ways of knowing and community-based research) in a meaningful and culturally safe manner; and
   • implementing recruitment, training, and mentorship strategies to attract trainees and ecrs from a diversity of population groups and communities, including those who have been historically excluded, by embedding and applying equity, diversity and inclusion (edi) best practices in these strategies.
2. support the development of skills that increase the likelihood of employability and career prospects of diverse trainees and ecrs across sectors, by integrating training on:
   • approaches to advance rigorous, responsible, and impactful research (e.g., edi considerations and analysis – including sex- and gender-based analysis, embedding inclusive patient and persons with lived or living experience (pwle) engagement in all stages of research, knowledge mobilization, research data management, research involving indigenous peoples, ethics, unconscious bias);
   • grant/proposal writing, budgeting, and peer review;
   • professional development skills (including transferrable skills, such as communication, analytical thinking, problem solving, project management, leadership, etc.);
   • applying knowledge mobilization strategies (e.g., priority-setting and co-production, dissemination and communication, evidence synthesis, implementation of high-quality evidence, embedded research, etc.) and advancing knowledge mobilization science (e.g., implementation science, embedded research, evaluation of km strategies) and,
   • diverse career options and opportunities available across the different sectors (academia, private/for profit, public, and not-for-profit).

the objective of the indigenous forestry initiative (ifi) is to advance reconciliation in the forest sector by supporting indigenous-identified priorities to accelerate indigenous awareness, influence, inclusion, and leadership.

the ifi provides financial support to inclusive, indigenous-led activities in the forest sector, such as:

• gathering, developing, using, and protecting indigenous knowledge and science
• indigenous leadership and participation in forest stewardship
• the identification, consideration, and pursuit of economic development opportunities