EDI Scholarship in Health and Medical Education Funding Competition

The Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES), the Office of Equity, Professionalism and Diversity (OPED), and the Office of Indigenous, Local and Global Health (ILGH) have partnered to host the 2nd annual funding competition focused on health and medical education scholarship in the areas of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and Indigenous health.

Letters of Intent are due 31 October 2022.  See full announcement for requirements and eligibility criteria.

Please note that all applicants are required to participate in the Indigenous Health Education Pathways to Healing Circle (see New Requirement – Pathways to Healing Circle section in the full announcement) prior to submitting an LOI.

Projects submitted to this competition cannot also be submitted to the OHMES Research & Innovation in Health & Medical Education Funding Competition. 

There were 9 Letters of Intent received with 7 of those invited to submit a full proposal.  Five full proposals were received and reviewed by the eight member EDI Funding Competition Review Committee representing ILGH, OHMES, OPED and a number of equity-deserving groups. 

The following were each awarded a $5,000 grant:

Dr. Jori Hardin
Enhancing Skin of Color Dermatology Training at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Dr. Laurie Hiemstra
Gender Equity and Inclusion for Canadian Orthopaedics (GDICanOrth)

Dr. Alyshah Kaba
Indigenous Themed Simulation: Practice for Change

Dr. Kannin Osei-Tutu
Exploring Undergraduate Medical Students’ Sense of Belonging across Medical Schools in Canada