Yakovenko, Igor

Purpose

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to: • Generate new knowledge around the risk and protective factors for the full spectrum of problematic gambling and/or gaming; • Generate intervention-related evidence to address the needs of knowledge users in this space, including health care and/or health services policy and practice, as well as for regulatory aims; • Generate data and evidence to monitor and evaluate the potential benefits, harms, and unintended consequences of federal and/or provincial/territorial gambling and/or gaming regulations on health; • Facilitate consideration and application of new evidence to inform ongoing and future development of policies, practices and programs related to gambling and/or gaming; • Encourage approaches that consider different populations, particularly those from marginalized populations and/or the implications of the social determinants of health in problematic gambling and/or gaming.