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Harnessing the Power of Health Research
Harnessing the Power of Health Research | 2 December 2012
Health research supports British Columbians Health research takes place in our colleges and universities, our
hospitals, and our communities. It answers key questions that keep
British Columbians healthy and improve our health care system.
By supporting a vibrant health research community in BC, we can:
develop new treatments and cures
respond to emerging health threats
improve the delivery of health care
Health research is also an important catalyst for innovation and economic development. It creates high-quality knowledge economy jobs and attracts investment to BC.
“How can we optimize our response to emerging pandemic threats?”
MSFHR mobilizes priority research to ensure
BC’s health system leaders have the evidence
to address rapidly emerging health threats.
In 2009, we coordinated and funded a rapid
response study to understand which age
groups were most at risk from H1N1. This
real-time risk analysis was key to the effective
roll-out of BC’s immunization campaign.
“By partnering with MSFHR, we were able to bridge science and public health. We are now better prepared for the next pandemic.”
— Dr. Danuta SkowronskiPhysician epidemiologist, BC Centre for Disease Control
Clinical professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
>10 fold = leverage of foreign, federal, private sector and not-for-profit funding for each dollar invested in health research by the Government of British Columbia (based on Statistics Canada GERD data for 2006)
MSFHR supports health research
Harnessing the power of health research requires nurturing our province’s exceptional researchers and providing the training and tools they need to innovate. MSFHR is a vital pillar of support to BC’s health research community and plays a central role in fostering capacity for world-class research.
*Other includes separate additional grants to specific research initiatives including Terry Fox Research Institute, Rick Hansen Foundation, Pacific Alzheimer Research Foundation, and others. BCKDF, Genome BC, and LEEF numbers are for health research portion only.
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Genome BC
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Major health R&D investments by BC government since 2001 (%)1
Total health research funding = $917M
$300 millionAdditional CIHR dollars to BC over last decade as a result of investments in capacity building*
*cumulative benefit of shifting BC’s percentage of CIHR funding from 9% to 14%
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AlbertaBritish Columbia
Harnessing the Power of Health Research | 3 December 2012
“The establishment of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in 2001 was a game changer. It meant we could recruit, grow, and retain researchers of global stature and build teams focused on important health problems.”
— Dr. David Huntsman, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG
Director of OvCaRe, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Cancer Agency and UBC
Professor, Departments of Pathology and Lab Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UBC
Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Professor of Gynaecologic Oncology, UBC
Medical Director, Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency
We were founded in 2001 as part of the effort to revitalize health research in BC. Our province was losing ground to other provinces and struggling to recruit and retain top minds that could attract federal health research dollars.
1 British Columbia Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training, November 2012
39.5%
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Health research answers important questions that improve the health of British Columbians
Harnessing the Power of Health Research | 4 December 2012
Sustaining excellence
BC’s ability to respond to these and other questions must be sustained. Our province is home to world-class researchers and resources, and MSFHR is key to harnessing the power of health research for the benefit of all British Columbians.
The recent announcement of government funding to MSFHR allows forward planning through the next 16 months. Stable, sustained funding is needed starting in 2014. A three-year commitment of $30M per year would enable MSFHR to continue supporting excellence and expand its efforts to catalyze health systems transformation through innovation and learning from what we do.
Michael Smith Foundationfor Health Research200 – 1285 West BroadwayVancouver, British ColumbiaV6H 3X8 Canada
T 604 730 8322F 604 730 0524www.msfhr.org
“What can we learn from HIV/AIDS
research that can change how we think
about other diseases?”
Early treatment can equal prevention.
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
has improved outcomes and reduced the
chances of HIV transmission by more than
95% through the use of HAART (highly
active anti-retroviral therapy) and routine
testing.
“We are at the forefront in the global effort to confront HIV/AIDS and ready to transfer the success of the ‘Treatment as Prevention’ strategy to other chronic diseases because of investments made by the BC government and MSFHR.”
— Dr. Julio MontanerDirector, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Chair in AIDS Research and Head of Division of AIDS, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
“How do differences in community
size and access to health care affect
outcomes?”
Health research found that women
diagnosed with breast cancer while living
in rural BC used breast cancer screening
less frequently, presented at a later
stage and chose surgical treatment over
radiation therapy more often than women
from large cities.
“Through our work at the BC Cancer Agency, we are trying to understand how the health-care system affects patients so we can optimize access and use of services across BC.”
— Dr. Nadine CaronMember, MSFHR Board of Directors
Assistant Professor, UBC Northern Medical Program at UNBC in Prince George
Scientist, BCCA Genome Sciences Centre
“How can we use the wealth of information available to improve health?”
MSFHR supports Population Data BC,
a platform to provide researchers with
secure, coordinated, and effective access
to BC’s health databases so they can
develop better treatments and better
health policy.
“[Stakeholders] identified the need to explore greater use of de-identified data and broader support for data sources such as Population Data BC.”
— Elizabeth DenhamBritish Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner
Vancouver Sun, August 15, 2012