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Medical grants

GSK Canada supports independent medical education, professional organization memberships and sponsorships, and other medical grants

GSK recognizes a responsibility to support activities in our medical community, whether related to our commitment to support medical education where there is patient need and mutual scientific interest, to support professional societies’ initiatives, or to assist healthcare organizations or projects that promote other healthcare goals. In all of our interactions we aim to be transparent about our work, operate with integrity, and always put the interests of patients first.

GSK Canada Medical will review qualifying grant requests and may reach out for additional information.

Timeline: Decisions on funding requests may take 8-10 weeks and decisions will be communicated when each review is complete.

Specifically, for independent medical education requests, applications will be accepted two times per year during Call for Proposals:

  • April 15th 
  • September 15th 

For Other Medical Grants, Professional Organization Memberships and Sponsorships requests, applications will be accepted throughout the year.

Exception: Independent medical education grant requests related to Specialty Care areas of interest are accepted throughout the year.

To qualify for a Medical Grant, you must meet the criteria below, and submit a completed application form with all supporting documents to medicalgrants.canada@gsk.com.

Please ensure you meet the following criteria before submitting an application:

  1. I confirm that the event or activity will not start for 12 weeks following date of application submission.
  2. I confirm that the application is on behalf of an organization (not an individual).
  3. I confirm the request is in one or more of GSK’s disease area of interest.
  4. I confirm the request is for an eligible Canadian medical organization.

Conference Sponsorship Requests:

If the funding request offers any sort of commercial benefit (e.g. booth or complementary conference registration in exchange for sponsorship) the request is a Conference Sponsorship. Please submit these requests to the conference sponsorship team at email: ca.conference-sponsorship@gsk.com.

 

Select the appropriate tab based on the type of request:

GSK funds education initiatives for Canadian healthcare professionals in disease areas where there is patient need and mutual scientific interest. Our support of these initiatives is at arm’s-length – we have no involvement or influence on the education development, logistics or selection of participants. We focus our resources on programs that have the greatest potential to close learning gaps and to improve patient health.

Applications will be accepted two times per year during Call for Proposal months: April and September.

Decisions on funding requests will be made available following the close of each Call for Proposal.

Applications along with any supporting material should be submitted to medicalgrants.canada@gsk.com at a minimum of 12 weeks prior to the program start date. Anything less is subject to decline based on time constraints.

 

Additional Information:

Eligible Medical Organizations

  • Scientific or professional organizations
  • Professional medical, pharmacy and nursing societies
  • Patient advocacy groups, patient centred organizations (e.g. seniors’ or community services)
  • University Faculties
  • Integrated Health Networks and Health Authorities
  • Hospital departments or divisions

Please note that applications from the following organization types will not be accepted:

  • Individual HCPs (Healthcare Professionals) or small working groups of HCPs
  • For-profit online education, publishing or communications companies and similar ventures
  • Non-Canadian organizations

Disease areas of interest

Oncology

  • Endometrial Cancer
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Ovarian Cancer

Respiratory

  • Asthma
  • COPD
  • Chronic cough

Vaccines

Specialty Care

  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
  • Anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD)

COVID-19 Therapeutics

Funded IME initiatives

In 2023, a total of $287,960 has been provided to support seven independent medical education programs. These programs include:

  • Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), B the change you want to see: Updating the narrative on MenB
  • Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), Meningococcal B update
  • International Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Canada (ICEBM), Maximizing survival in advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer: the evolving role of immunotherapy
  • io Health Association, Vaccine center of excellence innovative content campaign
  • io Health Association, Vaccine center of excellence pharmacist and student education
  • Ontario Pharmacist Association, Delivering a comprehensive pharmacy-based vaccines program: travel consultation and routine vaccine recommendations
  • Ordo Pharma, Panel on respiratory infections in pharmacies: from cough to vaccination

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