BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The TD Aboriginal Nursing Fund will support First Nation Status or Non-status, Inuit or Métis* nurses at the Bachelor, Master’s, PhD and Nurse Practitioner levels. This fund aims to support Canadian Aboriginal nursing students who intend to practice nursing preferably in Aboriginal communities, Aboriginal health settings or any health settings.

One of the goals of the Kloshe Tillicum Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research BCWAY is to recruit and improve access to Aboriginal health research training programs and promote and support health research careers. The Aboriginal Health Research Fellowships are intended to support and increase the number of health professionals with Aboriginal health research skills and experience.

The Bullitt Environmental Fellowship is a two-year, $50,000/year fellowship for graduate students interested in pursuing leadership positions within the environmental field. an outstanding, environmentally knowledgeable graduate student from a community under-represented in the environmental movement, who has demonstrated exceptional capacity for leadership as well as scholarship, will receive a two-year, $50,000/year fellowship award.

The purpose of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Scholarship supplement is to foster graduate research in atmospheric and oceanographic sciences in Canada. The first supplement was initiated by Weather Research House Inc. and the second by the Canadian National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (CNC-SCOR). Both are sponsored by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS).

The CREATE Program will provide an enriched integrative experience for the next generation of researchers in the NSE, and will help develop the professional and personal skills needed to build capacity within Canada's research community to address significant research challenges. The program will better prepare new researchers for their future careers in academia and in other sectors. To build on Canada’s research strengths and priorities and to enhance our success, at least 60 percent of the CREATE funding will be directed to the following priority areas: Environmental science and technologies; Natural resources and energy; Health and related life sciences and technologies; and, Information and communications technologies.

The primary focus of the Canadian Nurses Foundation Scholarship Program is to provide students with financial assistance on a timely and fair basis.
Canadian Nurses Foundation scholarships are awarded based on merit.
To be eligible the applicants must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident in Canada; must be studying in Canada at a Canadian University or College; normally be enrolled in Nursing PhD, and if not (health related field) must provide a rationale for how their studies will promote advancement in nursing.
Please note that RNs doing thesis work are also eligible.

The Eli Lilly Graduate Scholarship enables a Diabetes Educator Section (DES) member to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in a diabetes related field. Recipients of the scholarship will receive $5,000 paid in two instalments: the first upon receipt of proof of acceptance in a program; the final upon completion of the program.

The primary goal of the CANADA-HOPE Scholarship Program is to further develop international collaborative efforts between researchers. The short term goal is to enable promising individuals to be mentored by prominent Canadian researchers. The long term objective of the Program is to enable promising scientists and clinicians from Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC), as identified by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the United Nations (UN), to be exposed to some of the best science, laboratories and training environments in Canada. The next two rounds of this program will focus on sub continental South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The goals of the Program are to encourage a broad spectrum of foreign post-doctoral scholars (PhDs, MDs or health professionals) to train in health and health related areas which in the long term, would lead to the development of sustainable programs to help people in developing countries.

Canadian Blood Services offers a Graduate Fellowship Program to attract and support young investigators to initiate or continue training in the field of blood transfusion science. This program is offered to graduate students who are undertaking full-time research training leading to a Ph.D. degree. The fellowship is awarded directly to the student, with a value of $21,000 per annum. A yearly research and travel allowance of $1,000 per annum is provided with each fellowship. Students may be supported for a maximum of 4 years.

PICS Graduate Fellowships are available on an annual basis to outstanding Masters and PhD students at the Institute's four collaborating universities (UBC, UNBC, SFU and UVic) conducting research in an area related to climate change impacts and adaptation. Fellowships are valued at $12,000 per year for Masters and $18,000 per year for PhD students.

Short-Term Fellowships are reserved for those who wish to work for a short period in a laboratory in another country for example: to learn or develop new techniques, to use instruments or technology not available in their own country, to establish collaborations in a new area of research rather than ongoing projects, to obtain pilot results to establish a new international collaboration. Independent young researchers, early in their careers, are encouraged to apply. Doctoral students may apply only under certain conditions.

This scholarship is intended to support CFPC members in activities engaging in global health care projects either in Canada or abroad, and in promoting family medicine abroad. Clinical activities, teaching, research or conference attendance will be considered.

The Lung Cancer Research Foundation will award up to five $50,000 individual grants for lung cancer focused research projects in basic science, translational applications, clinical care programs, and/or outcomes science. The LCRF welcomes submissions of grant requests for funding covering all aspects of lung cancer. Grant requests can include new project submissions as well as request for renewal of current funding. The submissions are evaluated according to the standard NIH guidelines for scientific merit and originality of concept by the Medical Advisory Board of the LCRF. Additional consideration is given to the project's consistency with the mission of the LCRF and support for a broad distribution of research across many fields of lung cancer research in the final LCRF Board of Directors decisions.

NRC-IRAP delivers two youth initiatives. NRC-IRAP’s Internship Program with Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Collaborative Research Internships Program provide firms with support to hire post-secondary graduates. Both firms and graduates benefit from these programs: firms benefit from the graduate’s expertise in a diverse variety of disciplines and graduates gain valuable work experience that will help open the doors for future employment.

The course provides substantive and methodological training in human fecundity and fertility, pregnancy and perinatal outcomes, maternal health, fetal growth and development, developmental disabilities, and promising new approaches for studying these outcomes.

Northern Research Internships are tenable in a northern Canadian organization that will benefit from the research conducted, either directly or through the sharing of knowledge. Partner organizations can include colleges, federal, provincial and territorial government departments, companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or communities. Students/fellows should consult with their supervisors and/or the potential research organizations themselves to find a suitable partner for an internship.

The Irvington Institute Fellowship Program of the Cancer Research Institute, formerly the Cancer Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, answers the need for more researchers in the field of cancer immunology. It supports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology or general immunology. The fellowship provides stipends of $45,000 for the first year, $47,000 for the second year and $49,000 for the third year. In addition, an allowance of $1,500 per year is allotted to the host institution for use at sponsor’s discretion to help pay for the fellow’s research supplies, travel to scientific meetings or health insurance.

Canadian Blood Services is accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships to work with our affiliated Research & Development groups across Canada. Canadian Blood Services has active research programs within transfusion science emphasizing platelets, stem cells, plasma proteins, infectious disease, epidemiology and clinical transfusion practice. The purpose of the Canadian Blood Services Postdoctoral Fellowship is to foster careers related to transfusion science in Canada. This is a two-year award with the possibility of a one-year renewal that includes salary, a research allowance and a benefits plan. The value of each Fellowship is related to the major degree(s) and experience the applicant holds.

A postdoctoral scholarship is offered by the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine Research Center in partnership with the Mentor-Canadian Institutes of Health Research Training Program in Musculoskeletal Health. The CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center musculoskeletal disease research team is a worldwide authority in the field of spinal deformity. The research team excells in everything from prevention to detection and investigation to the development of less invasive treatments. The team possesses significant expertise in various research fields including molecular biology, genetics of musculoskeletal diseases, biomechanics and biomedical engineering, diagnosis, development of therapeutic tools and readaptation.

This program gives students an opportunity to work side by side with some of Canada’s leading children’s rehabilitation scientists in an interdisciplinary research environment. The 12-week program runs during the period from May/June to July/August. Specific start dates are arranged directly with the hiring scientists.

The purpose of the Systematics Research Graduate Supplements (SRGS) is to:
• promote graduate research in systematics in Canada;
• encourage and support graduate students to carry out all or part of their research at centres of excellence in systematics research;
• maintain and strengthen the base of expertise for systematics research in Canada; and
• provide practical work experience with natural history collections within a professional setting.

The BC Industrial Internship Program is administered by MITACS Inc, a federally-funded Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE). In 2003, MITACS piloted an internship program for the mathematical sciences.  As a result of its success, the program has been expanded, in partnership with the Ministry of Advanced Education of the Government of British Columbia, to all disciplines and faculties at BC’s universities. The BC Industrial Internship Program will help to ensure that the research innovations developed in BC universities are utilized by BC industry, thus building our province’s competitiveness on the national and international stage.The BC Industrial Internship Program is an applied research program involving graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, their academic supervisors and participating non-academic partner organizations.  Such organizations can include companies, hospitals, government labs and agencies, and not-for-profit societies.

This program funds interns to undertake research on site with the partner organization, applying cutting-edge tools, techniques or methodologies to research issues and problems arising within the organization. This on site research is expected to account for approximately 50% of the intern’s internship. The intern will then spend the remaining time at his/her home university with their supervising professor, evaluating the best techniques or methodologies to address the identified research issue.

Program Specifics  

• Internship projects are a minimum of 4-months in duration
• Each 4-month internship project receives $15,000 in direct funding, with the partner organization and MITACS each providing $7,500 of this amount
• These funds are limited to supporting the direct costs of research as directed by NSERC and the NCE Program rules. 
• The intern will receive a stipend from the academic supervisor using the internship grant
• It is recommended that the intern receive approximately $10,000 per 4-month internship
• Any funds over and above the intern stipend will be used to support research related to the internship
• The intern must be a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow at a BC university
• The intern works directly with an academic supervisor at the university and a supervisor at the partner organization
• The intern, academic supervisor and partner supervisor will meet at the initiation of the internship to agree on the research plan
• The intern will undertake a research project which has the potential to lead to, or supplement, the student’s thesis in the case of a graduate student or to further the PDF’s research program
• The intern will remain a student of their university while (s)he is an intern and shall not be an employee of the partner organization during this time
• The internship funds will be awarded as a grant to the academic supervisor

Deadline: at least 4 weeks prior the planned start date of the internship.

This program gives students an opportunity to work side by side with some of Canada’s leading children’s rehabilitation scientists in an interdisciplinary research environment.
The 12-week program runs during the period from May/June to July/August. Specific start dates are arranged directly with the hiring scientists.

The objective of this funding is to facilitate rapid international transfer of cancer research and clinical technology, to exchange knowledge and enhance skills in basic, clinical, behavioural and epidemiological areas of cancer research and in cancer control and prevention, and to acquire appropriate clinical management, diagnostic and therapeutic expertise for effective application and use in the home organization upon return.

Deadline: Applications are accepted at any time.

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to provide undergraduate and health professional students with opportunities to undertake research projects with established health researchers in an environment that provides strong mentorship. In addition, the intent of the initiative is to develop human resources and expertise to facilitate the translational research objectives of CIHR (including clinical research). Furthermore, this opportunity targets the early stage of the student's academic training to encourage the pursuit of research in areas of strategic interest to CIHR's Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) and CIHR's Institute of Aging (IA).

This program provides promising emerging scientists and engineers with the opportunity to work with research groups or leaders in Canadian government laboratories and research institutions. Fellowships are awarded for one year with the possibility of renewal for a second and third year, at the discretion of the government department concerned. The number of awards varies according to the budgets of participating departments and agencies.

Deadline: There are no deadlines for application to this program; applications are processed and reviewed as they are received.