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Innovation Policy encompasses all policies governing the Canadian innovation ecosystem, which includes all areas of innovation and economic development, private sector R&D, commercialization and technology policies and more. This also includes social innovation.
Science for Policy is the application and use of scientific research and knowledge to inform evidence-based decisions for public policy and regulations in all policy areas, not limited to but including public-interest policy priorities such as health, environment, national security, education, criminal justice and others.
The Policy for Science Award recognizes an individual who has pioneered policies and practices to improve the development of new technologies, capacity building and research infrastructure. Policy for Science focuses on management of science enterprises, the production of new knowledge, the development of new technology, capacity building, training highly quality personnel and research infrastructure. In general, the key targets of Policy for Science are post-secondary institutions, research funding organizations and government science-based departments and agencies.
Science Policy is inclusive of both policy for science and science for policy. Policy for Science focuses on management of science enterprises, i.e., the generation of new knowledge, the development of new technology, capacity building, training highly qualified personnel and research infrastructure. In general, the key targets of policy for science are post-secondary institutions, research funding organizations and government science-based departments and agencies. Science for policy is the application and use of scientific research and knowledge to inform evidence-based decisions for public policy and regulations in all policy areas, not limited to but including public-interest policy priorities such as health, environment, national security, education, and criminal justice and others.
Science & Society focuses on strengthening public understanding and engagement with science, including the relationship between science and society. This includes but is not limited to science communication, science journalism, public engagement, citizen scientist and more.
Frédéric Bouchard is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Full Professor in the Philosophy Department at Université de Montréal. As a philosopher of science, his interdisciplinary research focuses on the relationship between expertise, science and society as well as on the theoretical foundations of evolutionary biology and ecology.
Dr. Alan Bernstein, OC, OOnt, PhD, FRSC became President & CEO of CIFAR in May 2012. CIFAR is a Canadian-based, global, charitable organization that convenes extraordinary minds to address science and humanity’s most important questions. In 2000, he was named founding President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). In 2010, Dr. Bernstein became Executive Director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise in New York, where he led an international alliance of organizations funding HIV vaccine research. A sought-after science advisor, Dr. Bernstein chairs and serves on numerous advisory and review boards around the world, including Stand Up 2 Cancer Canada and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. Lisa Kalynchuk joined the University of Victoria in 2017 as Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation and was appointed Vice-President on July 1, 2019.
Dr. Kalynchuk is passionate about interdisciplinary health research that extends beyond the bench to the patient bedside. In 2019, she created the UVic Health Initiative (UHI), recognizing that many of society’s pressing challenges are directly or indirectly related to health or wellbeing. Her own research focuses on the effects of chronic stress, depression and other neurological diseases on the brain and behavior.
Dr. Laurel Schafer is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on developing novel organometallic catalysts to carry out difficult transformations in small molecule organic chemistry. Her numerous accolades include a Teaching Excellence Award (2003), the Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis (2004), the Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2013) and the Clara Benson Award as a woman who made distinguished contribution to chemistry while working in Canada in 2015. As a result of her research, Dr. Schafer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017.
Dr. Baljit Singh is a highly accomplished researcher, educator and administrator in the field of veterinary medicine, with specific expertise in lung biology and anatomy. He began his role as Vice-President Research at the University of Saskatchewan in 2021, after serving as Dean of the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (2016 – 2020), and as Associate Dean of Research at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan (2010 – 2016). He also was a Special Advisor (Experiential Learning) to the Provost (2010-2012) at the University of Saskatchewan. Recently, he served on a seven member Advisory Panel on the Canadian Federal Research Support System.
Dr. Janet Rossant, CC, PhD, FRS, FRSC is Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, and President and Scientific Director of the Gairdner Foundation. She led the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children from 2005 to 2015. In 2018 she received the N. American L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Award and in 2021 the ISSCR Achievement Award.
