Team Grants: Strengthening Resilient & Equitable Public Health Systems (STEPS)

• Tri-agency CVs for all participants except collaborators
• Sex and Gender Training Module Certificate
• Participant table
• Letters of collaboration, if applicable
• Letters of support, if applicable

Who is eligible?

• Canadian postsecondary institutions and affiliated institutions
• Canadian independent researchers and knowledge users
• Indigenous non-governmental organizations in Canada
• Public health organizations
• Community-based non-profit organizations

Who is not eligible

• Governmental organizations applying as NPA
• Applicants without a Canadian affiliation for the NPA
• Applicants seeking to implement existing solutions or service delivery models

Eligible expenses

• Staff salaries and compensation for team members
• Payments to knowledge users and people with lived or living experience
• Space rental for project-specific needs
• Community engagement and culturally relevant costs for Indigenous research
• Translation and public-facing materials

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Funding or implementing a solution or intervention
• Implementing or financing a service delivery model

Eligible geographic areas

• Canada
• Quebec-based projects are eligible for FRQ-Santé co-funding
• British Columbia-based projects are eligible for Health Research BC co-funding

• Applications are checked for relevance at registration and/or full application.
• Non-relevant applications may be withdrawn from the competition.
• Eligible applications undergo peer review.
• Successful applicants are funded in rank order within each pool.
• Funding requires reporting and may involve a funding agreement with the partner.

• This competition uses the tri-agency CV.
• Applicants may use the Partner Linkage Tool to find collaborators.
• Quebec-based applicants have an extra administrative step for FRQ-Santé co-funding.
• Applicants may be invited to webinars to explain program requirements.