Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Doctoral Foreign Study Award

The Doctoral Foreign Study Award (DFSA) provides special recognition and support to students who are pursuing a doctoral degree in a health-related field abroad. Candidates apply to the CIHR Doctoral Research Awards competition and top-ranked candidates are awarded a CGS-D or DFSA depending on the proposed location where the doctoral degree will be pursued and granted. All candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity.

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Listing Details

Organization Name

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

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Organization Mandate

CIHR was designed to respond to the evolving needs for health research and seeks to transform health research in Canada by:

funding both investigator-initiated research as well as research on targeted priority areas;
building research capacity in under-developed areas and training the next generation of health researchers; and
focusing on knowledge translation that facilitates the application of the results of research and their transformation into new policies, practices, procedures, products and services.

Countries

Regions

North America, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, North Africa, Central Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Oceania, Antarctica

Subcategory

graduate

Subject - funding opportunities

Health-related, including biomedical, clinical, health services and social, cultural, environmental and population health

Application deadline

Early Fall

Amount of the award

Trainee stipend: $30,000 per annum.
Research allowance: $5,000 per annum.

Eligibility - nationality

Canada

Eligibility

The Nominated Principal Applicant must be a trainee.
A primary supervisor must be identified on the application. An additional supervisor may be identified.
The program is open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada at the time of application.
Only students engaged in a full-time doctoral program that has a significant research component are eligible to apply. An eligible program of study must require that 75% of the students' time be devoted to research training. The research component must be a requirement for completion of the program, such as the completion of a thesis, a major research project, a dissertation, a scholarly publication, a presentation and/or an exhibit that is merit/expert reviewed at the institutional level. Doctoral programs that are based only on course work are not eligible. Joint doctoral programs with a professional degree (e.g. MD/PhD, MBA/PhD, DVM/PhD, etc.) and clinically-oriented doctoral programs (e.g. PhD in Clinical Psychology) are eligible if they have a significant research component as described above. For the purposes of eligibility assessment, the health professional degree portion of the combined degree program will not be counted as graduate study.
The table below outlines the maximum amount of time a candidate can be registered as a full-time student in a doctoral program (as of the application deadline), in order to be eligible to apply.1, 2
The maximum duration of award funding from all federal sources to undertake graduate studies is four years, including at the Master's level. Individuals who hold or have held a doctoral award from a federal source for a term of three years are not eligible to apply.
Individuals eligible to apply to the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program or the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program may also submit an application to the Doctoral Research Award program.
As of the application deadline, all candidates must have completed a minimum of 12 months of graduate study at the Master's or doctoral level.1

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