Digital Health Priority

Special Call for Proposals

The 2023 to 2025 call is closed. The deadline to apply was September 5, 2023

Overview

Dialogue McGill is launching a special call for research proposals that address the relation between language and access to health care and social services, with a focus on digital health innovation. We welcome proposals from medicine, nursing, psychology, social work, speech pathology, and any other relevant fields.

$ 50,000 per year maximum

2-year research projects conducted between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2025

Eligibility

The principal applicant must be an independent researcher affiliated with a Québec institution with a research ethics office (e.g., university, research institute, clinical settings).
Postdoctoral fellows with a formal university appointment are eligible to apply (if granted, the postdoctoral fellow’s supervisor will formally be the fund holder). Affiliation confirmation must be established prior to submitting the application.
Project proposals with researchers at institutions outside Québec and Canada are eligible, provided that the Principal Investigator is based in Québec and the funds are managed and disbursed by the Québec-based institution.

Digital Health Proposals

This research funding call is for proposals that focus on digital health innovation to enhance access to health care and social services for English-speaking communities in Quebec.

Example projects:

Web-based and mobile applications for English language interpretation
Artificial intelligence applied in health and social service fields
Remote clinical, community, and professional health and/or support interventions
Testing of digital health care access for English-speaking communities in remote regions
Replication studies of previous successful research projects at new sites
Secondary data analyses, literature reviews, and meta-analyses on digital health access needs
Digital strategies to recruit and/or retain bilingual health care and social service professionals based in Quebec

Ethics Approval

Proposals should already have research ethics approval or be exempt from ethics approval at the time of application. If ethics application is under review, the timeline for completing the project must account for the ethics evaluation time. Applicants will need to clearly demonstrate that projects can be completed within the applicable call’s funding period.

Objectives

Dialogue McGill's research mandate focuses on understanding the key factors that facilitate or impede access to health and social services for Quebec’s Official Language Minority Communities.

Our main objectives are to support, consolidate and expand a growing body of original and interdisciplinary research on the equity and quality of healthcare access for linguistic minorities. The long-term objectives of these initiatives are to understand the ways in which access to health and social services by English speaking Quebecers may be limited, develop strategies so that identified barriers may be overcome or reduced, and Increase dissemination and uptake of related knowledge, strategies, and best practices.

To meet these objectives, Dialogue McGill funds research projects that improve the access and delivery of health and social services by generating new knowledge or by evaluating initiatives in applied settings.

Funding Announcement

Funding results will be announced in October 2023. If there are discrepancies between the results date on this website and any application forms, the date on this website is considered correct.

For approved proposals beginning prior to September 2023, funding will be retroactive to April 1, 2023.

Questions

For any questions regarding this funding call, please email research.dialoguemcgill@mcgill.ca

This Dialogue McGill initiative is possible thanks to a financial contribution from Health Canada.

Application Process

Researchers will need to submit application the required documents by email to Dialogue McGill by September 5, 2023. In the application process, researchers will be asked to provide the following elements:

Research Project proposal (2-4 pages, single spaced) including:
- Lay abstract/resume
- Title
- Theoretical background, rationale, and objectives
- Study design
- Setting(s)
- Procedures
- Timeline
- Ethical considerations
- Statement of alignment with Dialogue McGill’s mandate
- References
Sources of funding for the project
A description of expected research deliverables and outputs (e.g., publications, reports, toolkits, conferences)
A budget summary and justification, including a breakdown of projected costs per budget category (see eligible expenses)
List of previously funded Dialogue McGill research projects or involvement in related activities (e.g., Dialogue McGill conference, supervision of Dialogue McGill-funded students).

Required Documents

Duly completed and signed Form 1: Proposal
Any supporting documentation
A Curriculum Vitae for each investigator (professional or Canadian Common CV)

Application Forms

Form 1: Proposal

Conditions for Funding

This funding call’s fiscal period begins on April 1st, 2023 and ends on March 31st, 2025. Projects that began prior to funding approval can be retroactively reimbursed starting April 1, 2023. Indirect costs are not eligible. Funds cannot be carried over from one fiscal year to the next (April 1 – March 31 of each year). Funding can only be used for eligible expenses incurred during the funding period.

Successful applicants external to McGill University will be required to sign a subaward agreement with cost reimbursements issued every three months. Upon approval, applicants receive a reporting package that specifies payment schedules and reporting requirements.

Funded applicants must acknowledge Dialogue McGill in all formal communications and publications related to the project. Guidelines are provided upon acceptance. Funded applicants must also report any knowledge transfer activities resulting from the completed project up to 5 years.