The Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award Program aims to establish a research community that meets or exceeds internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence in its 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 health care system.
Established in 1827, University of Toronto is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the large city of Toronto (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), Ontario. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Ontario, University of Toronto (UofT) is a very large (uniRank enrollment range: over-45,000 students) coeducational higher education institution. University of Toronto (UofT) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details. International applicants are eligible to apply for enrollment.
Eligibility Criteria
Application Deadline December 5, 2025
Value $25,000 - $50,000
Study Level Masters , PhD , Postdoctoral Fellowships
Sponsor University of Toronto
City to study Toronto
School to study University of Toronto
Eligible Country Canada
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2 Master's Awards—$?25,000 plus $1,000 research allowance; 3 Doctoral Awards—$35,000 plus $2,000 research allowance; 2 Postdoctoral Awards—$50,000 plus $5,000 research allowance
Application Process
All applicants must be sponsored and endorsed by the Dean of Graduate Studies at the Ontario university at which they are undertaking graduate study or postdoctoral research (Applicants do not need to obtain the Dean’s signature or endorsement when submitting the application. The Graduate Awards Office will provide this endorsement to those applications selected by SGS to put forth to COU).
Applicants must submit to their graduate unit (not Dean of Graduate Studies) an electronic copy of their application as a single PDF file via email by the graduate unit application deadline. All applications must include:
The completed application form from the COU website
A curriculum vitae – no page restrictions (must include information concerning the eligibility criteria)
A statement of research written by the candidate (maximum 1,000 words; must describe the research to be undertaken during the period of graduate or postdoctoral study and any progress already made in this research)
A non-technical summary written by the candidate (maximum 500 words)
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 issued by the university’s Registrar’s office (legends must be included for all transcripts including those from U of T); or
Copies verified and certified as accurate by the Registrar’s office of the nominating university. ACORN print-outs are acceptable for the departmental and university-wide review; however, nominees selected to be forwarded to the COU must provide official U of T transcripts in order to be forwarded. All other transcripts must be official.
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 (maximum 300 words)
Confidential letters of appraisals of the applicant from four assessors, signed and on letterhead***.
Mandatory arm’s length assessors: Postdoctoral applications must have two arm’s length assessors from among the four assessors. The arm’s length assessors:
Must not have been associated with the applicant as a supervisor, a member of the applicant’s supervisory committee, or a co-author; and
Are, if at all possible, not at the university at which the applicant was a doctoral student.
***The letters of appraisal for all awards (master’s, doctoral, or postdoctoral) should focus on an evaluation of the applicant’s research to date, and on the research the applicant proposes to undertake during the period of the award, paying particular attention to the criteria for selection described below. Assessors should also provide a short description of the relationship, if any, with the applicant.
The applicant must ask for the appraisals to be emailed directly from the referee to the Graduate Administrator at the graduate unit/department by the student deadline.
The University of Toronto is permitted to put forth two applications per award category to COU. Therefore, each graduate unit may nominate one candidate per award level to SGS for central adjudication.
For more details, visit University of Toronto Scholarship webpage
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Established in 1827, University of Toronto is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the large city of Toronto (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants), Ontario. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Ontario, University of Toronto (UofT) is a very large (uniRank enrollment range: over-45,000 students) coeducational higher education institution. University of Toronto (UofT) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor degrees, master degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details. International applicants are eligible to apply for enrollment.