BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The CFWH General Research Grants are awarded to those committed to finding solutions to the reproductive health issues that face women both in Canada and around the world. Open to any area within the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, these grants aim to help make further advancements in women’s health treatment, research, and education.

The Garfield Weston Foundation Awards are two grants focusing on projects that advance evidence-based research in pertinent female reproductive health issues. The 2011 Awards are concentrated on the area of obesity and reproductive health.

The CFWH General Research Grants are awarded to those committed to finding solutions to the reproductive health issues that face women both in Canada and around the world. Open to any area within the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, these grants aim to help make further advancements in women’s health treatment, research, and education.

The CFWH Research Grants are awarded to those committed to finding solutions to the reproductive health issues that face women both in Canada and around the world. Open to any area within the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, these grants aim to help make further advancements in women’s health treatment, research, and education.

The benefits, both short and long-term, of research into health are well recognized. Since the early 1900s, women’s longevity in North America has doubled from 39 years to 81 years as a result of, among other things, advances made through health research. Each year, a call for proposals goes out to medical researchers working in the field of women’s health. These proposals then undergo a blind peer review process to ensure that the most outstanding projects are funded. The successful research projects are recognized at a special ceremony during the Annual Clinical Meeting of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

The object of the Alva Foundation Award in Neonatal and Newborn Health is to advance evidence based research in paediatric neonatology and maternal fetal medicine. Grants may be awarded in a variety of areas related to maternal and newborn health. The successful research project will be awarded at a special ceremony during the annual clinical meeting of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada in Halifax.