BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Thanks to the E. de Rothschild and Y. Mayent foundations, the Institut Curie is able each year to award grants enabling scientists of international renown to stay at one of the Paris or Orsay Research Center laboratories. The sabbaticals by these foreign professors are of at between four and nine months, during which they must present at least four conferences on a topic of their choice and visit the Orsay laboratories to meet the site’s researchers.

The Leiv Eiriksson mobility programme is a follow-up to the "Norwegian Strategy for Scientific and Technological Cooperation with North America" (2004). The programme aims to contribute to the long-term escalation of R&D collaboration with the USA and Canada by allowing more Norwegian researchers to spend time in the U.S. or Canada, and vice versa.

Population health sciences are concerned with the study of social and environmental influences on physical and mental health and well-being, with reference to a range of ‘up-stream’ influences such as early life experiences, the social and economic conditions in which we live and environmental exposures that can affect wellbeing. Relevant areas of enquiry include the distribution and social patterning of health and well-being, ill health and health related behaviours, social and biological determinants of health and their interaction, the accumulation of risk and health trajectories throughout the life course and across generations, and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventive or therapeutic interventions aimed at risk reduction in whole populations.

Graduate scholarships are intended for master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral candidates whose research program deals specifically with the prevention of industrial accidents and occupational diseases or the rehabilitation of affected workers.

This training program is aimed at students and their supervisors from Canadian Universities who are interested in interdisciplinary primary health care research regardless of their home discipline. Students could include: mid-career clinicians; post-doctoral fellows; residents doing research fellowships; graduate students; outstanding undergraduate students.

The $2,500 award is for a full-time graduate student registered at a Canadian University during the 2009-2010 academic year.
The scholarship is open to Canadian Citizens or landed immigrants who are graduates of any recognized university, with an Honours degree or its equivalent. She or he must be enrolled at the time of application and must be working toward a higher degree (e.g. Masters or PhD) in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. This could include disciplines such as biology, Canadian studies, education, global health, history, law, medicine, nursing, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, and women’s studies. Other fields of study can also be considered relevant if the research project clearly addresses sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDF) Program provides support to a core of the most promising researchers at a pivotal time in their careers. The fellowships are also intended to secure a supply of highly qualified Canadians with leading-edge scientific and research skills for Canadian industry, government, and universities. NSERC encourages qualified Aboriginal students who are interested in the program to apply.

The Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research is intended to support the development of outstanding investigators who plan careers in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Parker B. Francis Fellowship grants are awarded to institutions for the purpose of providing stipends, fringe benefits, and modest travel expenses in support of qualified post-doctoral fellows or newly appointed assistant professors. Award recipients will thereby be enabled to devote the major part of their professional effort to research related to pulmonary disease and lung biology.

For the third year, the Pacific Salmon Foundation Stewardship Community Bursary program was awarded to students in BC whom are dedicated to the conservation and restoration of Pacific salmon and their habitat. The financial contribution from the stewardship community was so strong that PSF was able to provide four students with $1,000 bursaries. Successful applicants were chosen based on their volunteer involvement with their local aquatic stewardship group, an essay detailing their chosen field of study, and need for financial support in order to pursue further education.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation’s capacity for research and leadership to address the multiple determinants of population health and contribute to policy change. The program is based on the principle that progress in the field of population health depends upon multidisciplinary collaboration and exchange. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to: investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge and interventions that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.

The Academic Achievement Award encourages academic excellence by recognizing contributions to the field of public water supply. All Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations that are relevant to the water supply industry are eligible. The manuscript must reflect the work of a single author and be submitted during the competition year in which it was submitted for the degree.

The BC Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America offers a number of scholarships to encourage students studying in disciplines related to solid waste management and environmental protection. Recipients of the scholarships will be determined by a panel of SWANA BC Chapter Directors and will be chosen on the basis of: intended course of studies and its relations to solid waste management
• academic performance
• involvement in school and community activities
• involvement in activities beside regular course work which is related to solid waste management or environmental protection
• a brief written submission (500 words or less)
• references
• preference may be given to SWANA members or their immediate relatives

The Postdoctoral Fellowships program supports the most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities and assists them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers. Fellowships will normally be awarded to candidates affiliated with a university other than that which awarded the PhD. SSHRC postdoctoral awards are tenable in Canada or at a foreign university.

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) and NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) provide financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in masters or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering. The CGS will be offered to the top-ranked applicants at each level (master’s and doctoral) and the next tier of meritorious applicants will be offered an NSERC PGS. This support allows these scholars to fully concentrate on their studies and seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields. NSERC encourages interested and qualified Aboriginal students to apply.
Application deadline through a Canadian university is set by the university.

The fellowship is to be awarded to an individual who wishes to undertake post-graduate training in preventive cardiology in a recognized institution in Canada or abroad. Preventive cardiology includes the study of the individual and population causes of cardiovascular (CVD), cerebrovascular (CBD) and peripheral vascular disease (PVD); the epidemiology of CVD, CBD and PVD; and the development and evaluation of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention measures for CVD, CBD and PVD at the individual or population level. Primary prevention refers to measures taken to prevent the appearance of disease; secondary prevention refers to the prevention of recurrences; and tertiary prevention deals with the prevention of complications of disease, the limitations of severity and includes rehabilitation. Economic analyses of preventive practices, studies of public policy, clinical epidemiology and studies of the social and behavioural determinants of risk factors and disease are also eligible. The object of study must be individual humans or human populations.

The emphasis of this strategic initiative is on building capacity in the later themes/pillars of stroke research (i.e., clinical, health services/policy, and/or population health research) and supporting research training of health professionals (e.g. nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, speech therapists).
Funding priority will therefore be given to highly rated applicants whose research is 60% or more in the area of clinical, health services/policy, and/or population health research. While applications with a basic biomedical research focus are eligible for this competition, a limited amount of funds is available to support research in this area.

Confirmed Canadian researchers who wish to pursue their researches in a French Institution may submit an application under this program. The selected applicants will receive a monthly grant that does not include the travel expenses. This last will be taken in charge by the researcher. The stay has to last between 1 and 3 months. The applicants have to own a Canadian passport OR to have permanent status in Canada. The candidates have to have a tenured position in a research institution.

Confirmed Canadian researchers who wish to pursue their researches in a French Institution may submit an application under this program. The selected applicants will receive a monthly grant that does not include the travel expenses. This last will be taken in charge by the researcher. The stay has to last between 1 and 3 months. The applicants have to own a Canadian passport OR to have permanent status in Canada. The candidates have to have a tenured position in a research institution.

The Priority Announcements on Doctoral Research Award competitions offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific CIHR research priority areas or mandates. Applications are submitted through the "200910MDR" competition of the Doctoral Research Award: 2009-2010 funding opportunity.
Doctoral Research Awards are intended to provide special recognition and support to students who are pursuing a PhD degree in a health-related field in Canada or abroad. These candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Doctoral Awards administered by CIHR are intended to provide special recognition and support to students who are pursuing a doctoral degree in a health related field in Canada. These candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity. This funding program will be administered through the CIHR Doctoral Research Award competition, with the top candidates meeting the eligibility criteria below receiving a CGS award.