Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

2003-2004 Strategic Development

Title

Kokum - what makes a baby well? Improving community/research understanding of how to measure infant health using oral history

Funding Received

SHRF

30,000

About Program

The Strategic Development Grant Program was intended to improve the success rate of Saskatchewan-based research proposals in national health research funding competitions, ultimately increasing the amount of national health research funding flowing to Saskatchewan and boosting health research capacity. It provided financial support to Saskatchewan university faculty members for preparing full proposals of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary nature that would be submitted to a strategic health research funding initiative offered at the national level. --- Developmental work focused on obtaining support from a national strategic initiative, defined as a special call for proposals that would develop specific areas of health research or address gaps in health research capacity in Canada. For this program, strategic initiatives did not include regular operating grants or other regular programs. Typically, the strategic calls would come from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research or one of its institutes but may come from other national granting or voluntary agencies.

Janet Smylie

Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre

Family Medicine

Medicine

University of Saskatchewan

Birth weight alone is a common perinatal health indicator and one that is problematic for the First Nations population. Working toward First Nations infant health also requires an understanding of traditional, community relevant indicators. Dr. Smylie and her team will work with at least two Aboriginal communities to develop an effective perinatal health information system that is informed both by quantitative epidemiologic analysis and qualitative oral history. The goal of this participatory research process is to develop and evaluate national best practice models for Aboriginal perinatal health information systems.

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Recipients

Janet Smylie