Students and Trainees

IPPH is committed to supporting a new generation of population and public health researchers who are dedicated to research and its application. This section includes various resources designed to help you throughout your career path.

If you have any comments or other useful links that would help us better respond to your needs, please send an email to IPPH.

Training Opportunities

For potential training opportunities, please contact researchers funded through these IPPH Strategic Initiatives.

• Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR)
  • General Information about the STIHR Program
  • STIHRs listed by province(s) of principal investigator(s)
• Applied Public Health Chairs
• Centres for Research Development
• External Training Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

• Travel Awards – Have you been accepted to present at a conference? You might be eligible for a CIHR travel award, offered multiple times a year. Visit ResearchNet for details.
• Skills Update Awards – Apply now to visit Research Centres or Institutes that could enable you to acquire specialized skills or research/knowledge translation experience relevant to IPPH strategic research priorities. Visit the IPPH website for details.
• Mentorship Opportunities – Apply now to to establish relationships that foster interdisciplinary and intersectoral exchanges (i.e. within and outside of public health), including relationship building between academic and policy settings. Visit the IPPH website for details.
• CIHR Grants and Awards Funding Database – search for and view CIHR-funded researchers that might have the means to hire students

Tips for Writing Grant Applications

Dr. Patricia O'Campo, Director of the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael's Hospital and a Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health Sciences, developed helpful points to consider for writing a grant application. CIHR has also developed a resource called "The Art of Writing a CIHR Application". It is intended to assist applicants in writing a successful CIHR application, from the planning stages through writing and finalization.

In addition to these tips, potential applicants can review the document entitled "Understand Peer Review: Process (Start to Finish)", which provides a general overview of each step in the peer review process.

Recognizing Student Excellence

• Population and Public Health Student Awards & Dr. John Hastings CPHA Student Award
  • Past winners:
    • 2012
    • Past Award Recipients

PPH Student Profiles

• Jenny Munro - Redesigning care models for HIV-positive indigenous women in Papua, Indonesia
• Dan Werb - Investigating public health approaches to controlling drug use harm
• Alannah Brown and Max Deschner - IPPH students reflect on summer employment
• Carmen Dell, Alycia Fridkin and Fareen Karachiwalla- Health Equity Workshop Reflections
• Evan Castel - PHIR Conference Reflections
• Catherine Jones - PHIR Conference Reflections
• Rachel MacLean - Thinking About Implementation Systems Research for Population Health Interventions 2.0
• Daniel Fuller - Medical Research Council Population Health Methods and Challenges Conference Reflections
• Trang Nguyen - pH1N1 workshop
• Chardé Morgan - A Fishery on the Edge
• Kristy Buccieri - pH1N1 workshop
• Chatura Prematunge - pH1N1 workshop
• Lyanne Foster - pH1N1 workshop
• Kathleen Deering - Gender and sexual health
• Chris Connolly - Policy Fellow, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
• Kate Neufeld - Turning on the SWITCH

IPPH-IHSPR Summer Institute

The Summer Institute is one of many strategic capacity-building activities that was planned by IPPH and IHSPR to foster the creation and maintenance of complex interdisciplinary research teams and their community/policy-maker/practitioner partners. Such collaborations are increasingly recognized as critical to ensuring high-quality population & public health (PPH) and health services & policy (HSP) research.

The Summer Institute was intended as an annual event (subject always to the availability of funding and local organizers and hosts) that would contribute to the evolution of a network of PPH and HSP researchers and research users across the country.

There are no Summer Institutes being planned at this time.

Past Summer Institutes

• Primary Healthcare Research: Revisiting the Foundations of Primary Healthcare Research - Calgary, Alberta - June 20-23, 2010
• Space, Place and Health - Hamilton, Ontario - July 9-12, 2009
• Innovation in Knowledge Translation Research and Knowledge Translation - Cornwall, Ontario - June 22-25, 2008
• Population Health Intervention Research: Creating New Ways Forward - Banff, Alberta - June 24-27, 2007
• Using population-based health and health services data for research: challenges and opportunities in an intersectoral environment - Winnipeg, Manitoba - June 19-21, 2006
• Rural and Remote Health Research: Rhetoric and Reality - Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland - June 5 - 10, 2005
• Negotiating the Shoals of Applied Research in Population and Public Health and Health Services and Policy Research - Whistler, British Columbia - June 12 - 16, 2004
• Interdisciplinary Health Research - La Sapinière Resort in Val David, Québec - June 4 - 7, 2003
• Doing Interdisciplinary Partnered Health Research - held in Talisman Resort in Kimberley, Ontario - June 9 - 11, 2002

Useful Links

• Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)
• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
  • list of graduate programs in Public Health
  • learning opportunities at PHAC

For more information, please contact:

IPPH Funding
Tel: 613-957-6128
Fax: 613-954-1800