Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and NIHR Collaboration

Craig P, Di Ruggiero E, Frohlich KL, Mykhalovskiy E and White M, on behalf of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)–National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Context Guidance Authors Group. Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research. Southampton: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre; 2018. (.PDF)

This report is the output from a collaboration between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The report provides guidance on taking context into account in population health intervention research (PHIR) for producers, users and funders of population health intervention research (PHIR). The report includes international case examples to help researchers to think about dimensions of context that might be significant in population health interventions. The work was funded by CIHR – IPPH and NIHR.