The Catalyst Grant : AI-enabled technologies and Brain & Mental Health (A Century of Screens: Research on the Benefits & Harms of AI-enabled Digital Technologies on Brain & Mental Health) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) supports interdisciplinary research in Canada.
Proposals must build the foundations for studying the benefits and harms of AI-enabled digital technologies on brain and mental health, including measurement frameworks, taxonomies, reporting guidelines, study designs, and policy-relevant preliminary evidence.
Applications must be led by a nominated principal applicant who is an independent researcher affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution or its affiliated institutions and who holds a substantive role in Canada for the duration of the grant. Teams must be interdisciplinary, with no more than four additional principal applicants, and must include expertise in mental health, psychiatry, cognitive or developmental psychology, neuroscience, public health, policy, or social sciences alongside technical expertise in computer science, mathematics, engineering, artificial intelligence, or human-computer interaction.
CIHR intends to make 2,400,000 CAD available to fund approximately 12 grants, with a maximum of 200,000 CAD per grant for up to 1 year.
Registration closes on March 11, 2027, and applications close on April 8, 2027.