Collège Boréal in Sudbury has secured funding for health research for a collaborative project with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. This marks the first time funding has been directly awarded to a Canadian college by the CNFS Fonds national de la recherche.
The research project is aimed at improving access to health services for French-speaking minority communities in their own language.
“The project is important to Collège Boréal in several ways because it marks the start of research initiatives in the health sector by our institution for the first time,” college president Denis Hubert-Dutrisac said in a news release. “Moreover, this project undeniably strengthens the position of our institution in the area of ensuring the fundamental rights of francophones in Ontario, and indeed, throughout Canada. In this case, the fundamental right relates to the availability of French-language health services.”
The CNFS is a pan-Canadian umbrella organization bringing together 11 university and college educational institutions as well as regional partners. Member institutions offer educational programs delivered in French in various health disciplines, while regional partners help improve access to these health training programs.
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