About the CTN+

To make big change, you need big impact — the type of impact that stretches from coast to coast to coast. The CTN+ plays a central role in driving Canada’s HIV and STBBI research efforts.

The Network’s Vision

Despite tremendous progress in the treatment and prevention of HIV and STBBIs, important disparities across regions and populations remain in Canada. There are also many opportunities to develop new technologies, models of care, and curative therapies.

CTN+ builds upon the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) originally established in 1990 as a cornerstone of the federal AIDS strategy, and now encompasses all STBBIs. With four Scientific Think Tanks and five Regional Teams, our Network facilitates and supports high-quality, investigator-driven clinical trials and innovative non-interventional research in a range of clinical areas.

Focus on Regional Priorities

The CTN+ prioritizes the growth of regional research capacity by fostering, developing, and supporting research teams across Canada. These regional teams, which include researchers, community members, and Indigenous representation, champion the knowledge needs of those in their local communities, with a focus on capacity building, engagement, upholding Indigenous rights, and recognizing the power of research and knowledge mobilization to improve health equity across the country.

Once informed by regional teams, local partners, and people with lived and living experiences, these projects are then facilitated by our Scientific Think Tanks, who provide scientific and methodologic support to CTN+ projects. From idea development to sharing results, our Community-Centred Knowledge Hub works with researchers, communities, and knowledge users to ensure CTN+ research answers the right questions, in the right way, for the greatest possible impact.

Regional Teams

Each Regional Team is made up of researchers, clinicians, Indigenous team members, and people with lived experience. Their expertise informs the Network’s research priorities, special initiatives, and knowledge translation efforts.

Scientific Think Tanks

Our Think Tanks act as science accelerators, facilitating innovative pan-Canadian trials informed by our regional teams and people with lived and living experiences, ensuring they are well-designed, address priority research questions, are inclusive of diverse participants, and have adequate statistical power to produce actionable evidence.

Our Committees

CTN+ committees meet to review studies, monitor trials in progress and help set priorities. This ensures that all trials maintain the highest scientific and ethical standards while addressing the needs of local communities and meaningfully advance commitments towards Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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Our Collaborators

The CTN+ is supported by CIHR and administratively coordinated at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. The strength of the Network comes from partnerships and engagement with diverse people with lived and living experiences, communities, clinicians, research scientists, and organizations across Canada.

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Knowledge Mobilization Hub

The CTN+ Community-Centred Knowledge Mobilization Hub promotes and facilitates community engagement, creates knowledge tools related to CTN+ studies, shares research findings to a broad array of stakeholders and audiences, and evaluates the Network’s impact within, and across, communities.

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CTN

Interested in joining our team? Here are the current career opportunities with the CTN+ and our collaborators. For Fellowship opportunities, please visit our Postdoctoral Fellowship program page.


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