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.
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Council of Ontario Universities Ontario Ontario Women's Health Scholars PhD Award
Aim and Benefits of Council of Ontario Universities Ontario Ontario Women's Health Scholars PhD Award
For the academic year 2025-26, the program offers up to:
- three renewable one-year awards of $35,000 (plus a research allowance of $2,000) at the doctoral level; and
Requirements for Council of Ontario Universities Ontario Ontario Women's Health Scholars PhD Award Qualification
- To be eligible for a doctoral award, an applicant must be registered as a full-time student in a doctoral program at an Ontario university at the beginning of the award period (i.e., fall 2025) and must remain registered as a full-time student throughout the term of the award; a doctoral student remains eligible until the end of the 15th term of full-time study.
- To be eligible for an Ontario Women’s Health Scholars award, an applicant must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada at the time of the application deadline (January 31, 2025).
Application Deadline
December 2, 2024
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to
Council of Ontario Universities on cou.ca to apply
- Application forms are available here or from the offices of the Deans of Graduate Studies in Ontario universities.
- A complete application requires:an application form completed by the applicant; the applicant’s curriculum vitae, which should include information regarding the eligibility criteria; a statement of no more than 1,000 words describing the research to be undertaken during the period of graduate or postdoctoral study and any progress already made in this research, and a non-technical summary of no more than 500 words, both written by the applicant (one additional page is allowed for diagrams, bibliography, etc.) . An application for a master’s or a doctoral award must also include the applicant’s undergraduate and (if appropriate) graduate transcripts, which may be either
- official transcripts sent directly by the Registrar's office of the issuing university, or
- copies verified and certified as accurate by the Registrar's office of the sponsoring university;
- confidential letters of appraisal of the applicant from two assessors.
- An application for a postdoctoral award must also include a brief summary of the doctoral thesis of no more than 300 words; confidential letters of appraisal of the applicant from four assessors, signed and on letterhead, of whom two must not have been associated with the applicant as a supervisor, a member of the applicant’s supervisory committee, or a co-author; and
For more details, visit Council of Ontario Universities Ontario Women's Health Scholars PhD Award 2025-2026
