CIHR Training Program in
Health Law, Ethics and Policy
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C5
email: info@healthlawtraining.ca
Tel: 1 + 416.978.3724
Fax: 1 + 416.978.2648
Terms of and Conditions
The following conditions apply to students
admitted to the program:
Funded students many not exceed 12 hours per
week of paid employment during academic year.
Funded students must immediately advise the
program coordinator of any scholarships, grants, or awards
received in support of your graduate studies. Award
recipients are allowed to hold additional awards (excluding
additional awards from any of the Tri-Agency: CIHR, NSERC &
SSHRC) provided that the total value of the additional
awards during the period of overlap with the CIHR award does
not exceed 50% of the CIHR stipend. The Program Coordinating
Committee recognizes that students may, on occasion,
experience exceptional financial hardships. In the event
that a student can demonstrate exceptional financial need,
he or she can apply to the Program Coordinating Committee to
request that the 50% rule be waived. The discretion rests
entirely with the PCC.
All students must attend/participate in the
Annual Boot Camp session – held every year
All student must present their research work
at the Annual Colloquium and participate in all event
sessions - presentations are made before an audience of
leading health law academics and government decision-makers,
you are expected to attend both days of the conference .
All students must attend/participate in the
Annual Skills Workshop – during this workshop students are
given training in research grant writing, pedagogical
skills, and research methodologies.
All student are expected to attend the
Health Law Seminar series workshops organized at their home
university – refer to the program benefit session for more
information
All students must acknowledge the training
program in publications or presentations arising from the
research supported by the program.
All students are expected to complete the
ethics training requirements as set out by the Program
Coordinating Committee and their home university
Over the course of the academic year,
students are expected to provide feedback on the program.
All students are expected to complete at
least one significant Knowledge Translation Project. Options
include making a presentation to health professionals or
medical students, writing an opinion/editorial article for a
newspaper, or preparing an article submission for a
professional journal.
