====== Centre for Research on Inner City Health ======

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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 =====

==== Team ====

^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Years  ^
| [[Patricia O'Campo]]  | Director  | 2010-2011  |

==== Partners ====

CRICH has partnered with a range of private and public organizations, including the [[AIDS Committee of Toronto]], [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], [[Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies]], [[Centre for Addiction and Mental Health]] (CAMH), [[Center for Disease Control and Prevention|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]], [[Chile Ministry of Health]], [[China-Canada Colloquium on Modeling]], [[Citizenship & Immigration Canada]], [[City of Toronto]], [[Health Canada]], [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES), [[Mount Sinai Hospital]], [[Ontario HIV Treatment Network]], [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]], [[public_health_Agencies:Peel Public Health]], [[public_Health_agencies:Public Health Agency of Canada]] (PHAC), [[SickKids]], [[St. Michael’s Hospital]], [[Statistics Canada]], [[Toronto District School Board]], [[public_health_agencies:Toronto Public Health]], [[United Way]], and [[World Health Organization:WHO Kobe Centre on Health Development]].((//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))

Additional research partners include [[Mount Allison University]], [[Ryerson University]], L’[[Université
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.