Our Mission:
- To facilitate research and knowledge translation aimed at understanding and promoting the health of people living in rural and remote Canada
Our Goals
- To build inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, mutually supportive and community-focused research networks concerned with rural and remote health
- To develop health research that is responsive to the needs of people living in rural and remote communities
Our Targets
- Increase in the number of researchers active in rural and remote health research
- Increase in the number of nationally funded peer-reviewed research projects in rural and remote health
- Increase in the number of studentships, post-doctoral fellows and research chairs with a focus on rural and remote health
- Increase in the involvement of rural and remote communities in planning, implementing and evaluating health research