The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has commissioned Ipsos Reid to conduct a survey of Canadian researchers regarding communications by CIHR and its institutes.

The survey should take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete. The deadline to respond is November 29th, 2013.

Your results will be kept completely confidential. Your personal information will not be shared without your consent, and you will be assigned a random study number. Information collected will only be reported for the entire population and will not contain any information corresponding to individual organizations or respondents. It will not be possible to identify you in any reports, and your individual responses will NOT be shared with CIHR or any third parties.

To participate in the survey, please go to the following website:
http://ipsospasurveys.com/s/CIHR-IRSC/

If you know of someone who did not receive an invitation from CIHR but would like to participate, please forward them the following link:
http://ipsospasurveys.com/s/CIHR-IRSC/.

If you have any technical questions or issues with answering this survey, you may contact:

Will Daley
Will.Daley@ipsos.com
613-688-8979

Ruth Davy
Ruth.Davy@ipsos.com
613-688-8981

For any other questions regarding the survey, please feel free to contact Karen Spierkel, Director, Communications and Public Outreach by phone at 613-954-1812 or at karen.spierkel@cihr-irsc.gc.ca .

Thank you in advance for your participation in this study.