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 The **Centre for Research on Inner City Health** (CRICH) is a research program based at [[St. Michael's Hospital]] in Toronto, Ontario.((Brown, J. //Centre for Research on Inner City Health - St. Michael’s Hospital.// Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy. Retrieved February 24, 2022, from https://archive.ph/NOzKb)) CRICH conducts research to better understand the linkages between poverty, social exclusion and poor health.
+CRICH operates under the umbrella of the [[Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute]], and is a member of the [[National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health]].((//Centre for Research on Inner City Health.// National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. Retrieved February 24, 2022, from https://archive.ph/G3wjZ))
+The organization is notable in the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] due to its origination of [[BlueDot]], and its close ties to the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), [[center for disease control and prevention|U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) and the [[University of Toronto]].
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 ===== Affiliations =====
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 du Québec à Montréal]], [[Canadian Institute for Health Information]] (CIHI) and [[University of Washington]].
+==== Funding ====
+CRICH's 2010/2011 Annual Report discloses funding from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], [[BMO Financial Group]], [[Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation]], [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR), [[Cancer Care Ontario]], [[center for disease control and prevention|U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC), [[MacArthur Foundation]], [[Mental Health Commission of Canada]], [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]], [[Mitacs-Accelerate]], [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), [[Ontario HIV Treatment Network]], [[Ontario Institute for Cancer Research]], [[Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre]], [[Peterborough KM Hunter Charitable Foundation]], [[public_health_agencies:Public Health Agency of Canada]] (PHAC), [[RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)]], [[Social Science and Humanities Research Council]] (SSHRC), [[St. Michael’s Hospital]], [[Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network]], and the [[University of Toronto]].
 ==== BioDiaspora ====
 CRICH was involved in the development of BioDiaspora, a web application that "analyzes airline routes in real time to predict the international spread of infectious diseases." The project was the precursor for [[BlueDot]], an [[artificial intelligence]] software company that claims to have been the first to detect the initial [[COVID-19]] outbreak in Hubei province, China.((Niiler, E. (2020, January 25). //An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus.// Wired. https://archive.ph/EAiP4))
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 ===== Research =====
+==== "Health in All Policies" ====
+At the request of [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]] (MOHLTC), CRICH worked with the [[World Health Organization]] to develop an online database of research on "Health in All Policies." HIAP is a strategy that "makes health a priority in a range of different policy sectors. It also involves measuring the impacts of social, environmental, economic and other policies on health and health inequities."((//Impact Report 2010/2011.// (2011). Centre for Research on Inner City Health; St. Michael’s Hospital. https://web.archive.org/web/20130721142723/http://www.stmichaelshospital.com:80/pdf/crich/crich-impact-report-2010-11.pdf))
+==== HIV ====
 Included in its research portfolio is work related to [[HIV]] testing.