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Research can help ensure responsible applications of AI.

Digital solutions are helping countries recover from COVID-19 and move toward more equitable health systems.

IDRC’s strategic investments are helping local researchers find innovative solutions to regional challenges while also supporting the Plan of Action to implement the Joint Declaration on ASEAN-Canada Enhanced Partnership (2021–2025).

Early in the pandemic, health workers faced many unknowns as they worked to protect communities against a new infectious threat — SARS-CoV-2. Globally, health systems needed to quickly train, equip and support health workers to provide care under increasingly difficult circumstances.

Healthcare workers have continued to provide patient care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, often during exhaustingly long shifts and amidst the fear of becoming infected and transmitting the virus to family, friends, patients and co-workers.

Collaboration between researchers and decision-makers can shorten the distance from evidence to policy uptake, leading to better-targeted programs and timely improvements in maternal and child health.

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have limited capacity to respond to the COVID-19pandemic.

IDRC invests in evidence, innovations, and policies to improve health and prevent chronic diseases through healthier food systems in low- and middle-income countries—more than CA$20 million in support of over 35 projects.

If no action is taken, tobacco will kill more than 8 million people globally by 2030, with 80% of these deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Seven projects on three continents designed and tested innovative ways of using eHealth to reach those with the greatest need: vulnerable women and children.

Although digital technologies hold great promise for increasing access to healthcare, this potential is largely untapped in Bangladesh.

For more than a decade, IDRC’s Governance for Equity in Health Systems program has supported researchers and health reformers in their efforts to strengthen health systems and find health financing solutions that reflect local needs and priorities in low- and middle-income countries.