Centre for Health Services and Policy Research’s (CHPR) mission “is to stimulate scientific enquiry into issues of health in population groups, and ways in which health services can best be organized, funded and delivered. CHSPR is based at the University of British Columbia, and positioned within the College of Health Disciplines, an innovative affiliation of seven faculties providing leadership in interdisciplinary and interprofessional education.”
See http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/About/whatwedo.htm(Canada)

Centre for Research in Women’s Health (CRWH) “is a research centre dedicated to creating knowledge that improves women’s lives. Established as a partnership between an academic institution (The University of Toronto) and a clinical institution (Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre), CRWH unites a variety of perspectives in understanding women’s health. CRWH works with partners, in clinical settings, academic institutions and communities around the world to create and disseminate knowledge about women's health.” Their mission is to “integrate scientific and humanistic perspectives to conduct and foster research relevant to women’s lives and to promote its application in diverse communities.”
See http://www.crwh.org (Canada)

Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) at St Michael’s Hospital “is becoming recognized nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence for inner city health research. It is the first research centre of its kind in Canada whose mission is to improve the health of urban populations through a program of policy relevant research, with particular emphasis on the needs of socially disadvantaged and economically deprived groups. The goals of this Centre include creating knowledge about health issues affecting inner city populations, working with community partners through such avenues as community-based participatory research, and sustaining and growing research capacity.”
See http://www.crich.ca/ (Canada)

Centre for Social Justice “is an advocacy organization based in Ontario with national and international links that seeks to strengthen the struggle for social justice.” It works with various partnerships in the social movement and conducts research in order to narrow income and wealth disparities and build peace. In 2002, it organized a conference on the social determinants of health. All the papers and presentations from the conference can be downloaded from the web site.
See http://www.socialjustice.org/ (Canada)