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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 29 © SHRF 2015 The Value of Aboriginal Health Research in Saskatchewan Introduction Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre (IPHRC) Commentary In 2001, the Globe and Mail published a series of articles under the headline “Canada’s Apartheid,” providing example after example of the silent division between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities and the devastating effect on Ab [...] As one of its first initiatives, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health established the Aboriginal Capacity and Developmental Research environments (ACADRe) funding competition as a catalyst to create a network of supportive research centres across Canada that would facilitate the development of Aboriginal capacity in health research. [...] Many successful partnerships exist and the province’s First Nations communities are leaders in delivering health services to their people, but in Saskatchewan, like the rest of Canada, there is a long way to go in bringing the health status of Aboriginal people in line with that of the general population. [...] Making this process more difficult is the complexity of the research environment and the numerous metrics and indicators used to assess the impact of health research. [...] The end result, Measuring the Value of Saskatchewan’s Health Research, was the first attempt to take an in-depth look at the outcomes and impact of Saskatchewan health research using five case studies that represented the full range of provincial health research priority areas.