Our Research Network
Investigator Driven Funding by Research Area
Investment in Investigator Driven Research
Working with our Research Network, the OHTN:
- Leveraged the Positive Spaces Healthy Places findings to secure $19 million in government funding for new supportive housing for PHAs in Toronto (a 35% increase) and $200,000 in new funding for supportive housing for PHAs in southwestern Ontario
- Linked the OHTN Cohort Study with the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD). Data from the NA-Accord led to the WHO recommending that doctors initiate HAART at a CD4 count between 351 and 500 cells/mm3
- Supported 148 Investigator Driven Research Projects between 1998 and 2008
- Supported 110 researchers through salary awards between 1998 and 2008
- Between 1998 and 2008, invested $17.6 million in basic science, $7.8 million in clinical research, $5.6 million in socio behavioural research $3.3 million in epidemiological research, $850,000 in community-based research, and $500,000 in prevention research
- Attracted 3,450 researchers, policy makers, community members and people with HIV to research conferences between 1998 and 2008
- Provided a venue for 165 researchers to present 70 oral abstracts and 95 posters to 682 participants at the 2008 Conference