Grant: Training Grant

The WRTC program objectives to be extended and expanded to three new university sites (University of Calgary, University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina) include: providing formal course based and experiential applied health services research training opportunities to equip researchers to address the research needs of a wide range of health-care policy makers; attracting graduate students from a broad range of disciplines, including health and non-health backgrounds; involvement of decision-makers in all aspects of the training program; exposure of students to the interface of research and decision-making; providing interdisciplinary conceptual and methods training; and developing linkages with other departments, and universities. This proposal will extend the number of core WRTC sites from three to six, adding diversity and strength to the WRTC training mission to enhance health services and policy research capacity in western Canada.