Ontario Women's Health Scholars Award

Award type:
Scholarships

Award description:
Funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, a Scholar Awards Program in Women's Health has been established to ensure that Ontario attracts and retains pre-eminent women's health scholars. The community of women's health scholars fostered by this Awards program will excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge about women's health and its translation into improved health for women, more effective health services and products for women, and a strengthened heath care system.

Value description:

  • Master's Awards - $25,000 plus $1,000 research allowance
  • Doctoral Awards - $35,000 plus $2,000 research allowance
  • Postdoctoral Awards - $50,000 plus $5,000 research allowance

Eligibility & selection criteria: 

Level:
Masters, Doctoral

Program:
Open to any program

Citizenship:
Canadian/Permanent resident

Selection process:
Application required 

Term:
Fall

Application deadline:
December 1

Additional instructions:
Applicants must email the following application materials to GSPA (gspa-awards@uwaterloo.ca) by December 1: 

  1. Include in body of email: Full name, Waterloo ID
  2. Application: available at https://cou.ca/resources/awards
    • Prior to submission, applicants must select “PRINT FORM” located at the top right of page 1 and save a copy. This action ensures that all form field entries are securely recorded.
    • The field labeled “Signature of Dean of Graduate School” must remain blank at the time of submission. This section is reserved for institutional-level authorization if the application is selected for nomination.
    • The supervisor's signature, if applicable, should be obtained prior to submission. If a proposed PhD supervisor has already been identified, that individual should sign. If a supervisor has not yet been determined, this section may be left blank.
  3. Curriculum vitae: including information concerning the eligibility criteria
  4. Summary of thesis (for postdoctoral applicants only): a brief summary of the doctoral thesis of no more than 300 words.
  5. Statement of research: explaining the research to be undertaken during the period of graduate study and any progress already made in this research (maximum 1,000 words). Must be written by the candidate.*
  6. Non-technical summary (maximum 500 words). Must be written by the candidate.*

*one additional page may be included for citations/diagrams.

Transcripts (masters and doctoral applicants only):

  • Upon receipt of a complete application, GSPA will automatically generate an official UW transcript and retrieve copies of official non-Waterloo transcripts which were submitted as part of the applicant’s admission application.

Reference Letters:

  • Two reference letters are required for master’s and doctoral applicants; Four reference letters are required for postdoctoral applicants.
  • Applicants must ensure that their referees email their letters directly to GSPA (gspa-awards@uwaterloo.ca) by December 1. All letters must be signed and on letterhead.
  • Letters should focus on an evaluation of the applicant’s research to date, and on the research the applicant proposes to undertake during the period of the award, paying particular attention to the criteria for selection. The assessor should also provide a short description of the relationship, if any, with the applicant.
  • For postdoctoral applications, two of the assessors must not have been associated with the candidate as either a supervisor, a member of the candidate’s supervisory committee, or a co-author; and if at all possible, not at the university at which the applicant was a doctoral student.
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