1) Evidence-based advocacy messages:

As a member of Research Canada, your organization is provided with health research advocacy messaging based on polling data. While the development of accountability metrics and a strategic framework for producing health research impacts data will take time to deliver, Research Canada is committed to working with its partners to ensure that our analytical capacity is increased, and that we capitalize on initiatives already underway.

2) An alliance speaking with a collective voice:

Research Canada members are part of a multi-stakeholder alliance that speaks with a collective voice. It is timely to bridge the gap among the many constituencies within the health research community that bring different expertise, experience and interests to the table. In a climate of competing priorities, the health research community needs to send a clear and consistent message to government.

Research Canada’s alliance will build consensus on high-level priorities through the partnerships forged, achieving a cornerstone for a common vision and integrated plan of action for health research advocacy in Canada.

3) Working through partnership:

Research Canada evolved from the Council for Health Research in Canada, which had a strong partnership ethic that resulted in the creation of the Health Research Advocacy Network (HRAN) and the Leaders’ Forum Steering Committee, which successfully delivered the Leaders’ Forum for Health Research in Canada.

Research Canada will carry on this tradition    of partnership building by implementing systematic mechanisms for on-going communication with our members and partners, such as our Annual Value Report, to ensure that we remain relevant to the sector, and at the same time, are always supportive of, and not in conflict with, sector-specific advocacy efforts.