Partners

The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS)’s mission is to maintain, improve and restore the health and well-being of Quebecers by providing high-quality, integrated health care and social services, thereby contributing to Quebec’s social and economic development.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is Canada’s federal funding agency for health research. Composed of 13 Institutes, the CIHR collaborates with partners and researchers to support discoveries and innovations that improve Canadians’ health and improve the health care system.

“To implement POR in Canada, the CIHR has concluded funding partnerships with the provinces and territories, philanthropic organizations, teaching institutions and health charities. The result: Canada’s Strategy for Patient-oriented Research (SPOR).”

CIHR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) is deployed by the Support Units and other SPOR entities that collaborate together and participate in various national committees and communities of practice. The Unité de soutien SSA Québec one of the SPOR’s provincial units.

Other units

Hotıì ts’eeda Northwest Territories (NWT) support unit

BC SUPPORT Unit

Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit (AbSPORU)

Saskatchewan Centre for Patient-Oriented Research (SCPOR)

George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation | University of Manitoba (Manitoba)

Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit – Strategy for Patient Oriented Research

The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU) (PEI,NS,NB)

NL SUPPORT (Newfoundland et Labrador)

Yukon Dr. Liris Smith lsmith@yukonu.ca

Other SPOR funded entities

• Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)
• CHILD-BRIGHT
• Chronic Pain Network
• Diabetes Action Canada
• IMAGINE (Inflammation, Microbiome, and Alimentation: Gastro-Intestinal and Neuropsychiatric Effects) Chronic Disease Network
• Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance
• Health Data Research Network (HDRN)
• National Training Entity (NTE)
• SPOR Primary Care Research Network
• Youth and Adolescent Mental Health – ACCESS Open Minds

Reporting to the Minister of Economy and Innovation, the mission of the Fonds de recherche du Québec is to ensure the strategic and coherent development of Quebec research and support it financially, support the training of researchers, establish the necessary partnerships for these researchers to carry out their mission, and promote and support the mobilization of knowledge.

The RUISSSs federate universities and their affiliated health and social services network institutions.

They were created to promote cooperation, complementarity and integration of the care, teaching and research missions of health care institutions with a university designation and the universities with which these institutions are affiliated.

The réseaux universitaires intégrés de santé (RUIS) were created in 2003; social services (RUISSS) were integrated in 2005, and their mission was defined in the Act respecting health services and social services.

The territory of Quebec is divided among the following four RUISSS, according to the four groups of university institutions (CHU, university institutes and CIUSSS), named after the four universities with a faculty of medicine, to which they are attached, namely

• RUISSS Université Laval
• RUISSS McGill University
• RUISSS Université de Montréal
• RUISSS Université de Sherbrooke

Réseau-1 Québec is a primary care knowledge network based on an infrastructure of member clinics attached to one of four practice-based research networks (PBRN) which cover all of Quebec. Each PBRN is under the responsibility of a department of family medicine and emergency medicine at Université Laval, McGill University, Université de Montréal or Université de Sherbrooke.

Oncopole is a Quebec research, development and investment hub advancing the fight against cancer. Created in February 2017, Oncopole is the result of a unique co-creation effort by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS). Oncopole’s mission is to act as a catalyst for actions rolled out by Quebec’s oncological research and innovation ecosystem and to position the province as a leader in the field. Its priorities—research, entrepreneurship, promoting and integrating innovations, and clinical relevance—are carried out to mobilize stakeholders, find innovative ways to fight cancer, and ultimately, to benefit patients.