December: Quench Your Scientific Thirst, Canada

Main Category: Conferences
Also Included In: Public Health
Article Date: 05 Dec 2008 - 4:00 PST

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CIHR is helping to make the latest health and science research accessible to the general public.

Café Scientifiques bring together researchers and the general public in informal venues (such as restaurants, pubs or cafés) for an evening of lively and informative discussion.

CIHR and some of its Institutes and partners have already hosted Cafés dealing with health subjects such as obesity, healthy aging, mental health in the workplace, Edmonton housing, the positives and negatives of personalized medicine, the hazards of urban living and the effects of air pollution on Toronto residents.

An exciting new season of Café Scientifiques in cities across Canada started in September 2008. Please stay tuned for upcoming details!

For more information, please visit http://www.cafescientifique.cihr.gc.ca

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

The CIHR is the Government of Canada's health research funding agency, and is involved in׃

-- Supporting the work of more than 11,000 researchers and trainees in universities, teaching hospitals, and research institutes across Canada

-- Developing high-quality people, excellent science and training the next generation of health researchers

-- Funding research that improves Canadians' health, health care system and quality of life

-- Fostering commercialization, moving research discoveries from academic setting to the marketplace

-- Allocating 94 cents of every dollar directly to fund Canadian health researchers

Source
David Coulombe
Media Relations
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
http://cihr-irsc.gc.ca