Awards and Funding

The annual PHC Research and Mission Award recognizes a scientist in our organization who demonstrates the mission and values of Providence Health Care while conducting outstanding research. 

2025 nominations are now closed.

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The PHC Practice-based Research Challenge is an annual competition open to point-of-care PHC staff. The Research Challenge offers research teams the opportunity to work with a mentor to develop a research proposal around a research question. They will learn basic research skills and compete with other teams for funding to conduct a small-scale research project.

Applications for 2025 are now closed

General questions? Contact researchtraining@providencehealth.bc.ca

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Knowledge Translation is the art and science of moving evidence into health care policy and practice.

Have you identified a need for practice improvement? Your knowledge translation (KT) project will help you integrate evidence into best practices.

The PHC and VCH Knowledge Translation Challenge will:

• Support staff who do not have knowledge translation experience
• Help design your own KT project
• Provide easy access to KT resources, mentorship and funding

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DEADLINES

• Letter of Intent (LOI) due: October 18, 2024
• Application due: April 14, 2025

This competition supports early-career clinician investigators by providing funds that will help them explore questions identified in the early stages of their medical profession.

Thanks to St. Paul’s Foundation (SPF) support and the Carraresi Foundation’s contribution, Providence Research is pleased to fund two research projects of up to $35,000 each. SPF and Providence Research are grateful to the Carraresi Foundation in Memory of Augusto Carraresi for its interest in supporting an early career research program at St. Paul’s Hospital.

Application Deadline: January 16, 2026

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