Peer Review
Submission to the CIHR International Peer Review Expert Panel
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently introduced a number of changes to the peer review process for its investigator-initiated funding programs. These changes were highly controversial. In June 2016, an  (CIHR falls under the Minister's remit) raising significant concerns with CIHR's reforms to peer review garnered signatures from over 1,300 Canadian health researchers. In response, CIHR convened a  to advise CIHR on the implementation of the proposed changes before the launch of its next Project and Foundation competitions in the fall of 2016. Subsequently, CIHR also convened an  to study the reforms, hold hearings with members of the Canadian research community, and deliver a report to CIHR. Read (JSM, LLM) to the CIHR  on 17 Jan 2017.
Herder, M. (17 Jan 2017). .Ìý
