Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Together for better health.
Training the health professionals and scientists who are taking on the most pressing health challenges of our time.
The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has been at the forefront of discovery throughout its history.
Today, the world is facing unprecedented health challenges. Climate change is undermining decades of improvements in human health, while healthcare systems around the world are struggling under the growing burdens of chronic disease and aging populations.
And once again, the Faculty is ready to lead the way to solutions.
With your support, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences can train brilliant, compassionate and curious minds, encourage innovative thinking, translate research into improved health, and help create sustainable healthcare systems.
Join us as we build healthier futures – for Quebecers and communities around the world.
The Medicine Opportunities Fund
Giving through the Medicine and Health Sciences Opportunities Fund is one of the most impactful ways to make a difference with your donation. In this time of great change and volatility, discretionary funding is essential to ensuring our Faculty can take advantage of emerging opportunities and respond strategically to the needs of our community.
Your gift will help us advance our major priorities, as well as meet emerging needs and opportunities such as:
- Seed funding to catalyze research and partnerships
- Attracting and retaining top faculty
- Adopting new technologies and upgrading facilities
- Responding to large-scale grant opportunities
Outstanding training for outstanding students
Students are at the heart of what we do. Learning from world-leading faculty, community partners and each other, our students acquire an outstanding education and the skills required to keep learning and growing. With your support, we can ensure our students are equipped to meet future challenges by:
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Outstanding faculty
The success of the Faculty is built on the strengths of the health professionals and scientists who together work to improve health outcomes for our communities.
Your gift will help us attract and retain outstanding faculty members and support them in leading transformative interdisciplinary research with direct impacts on clinical outcomes and policy.
You can make a difference by giving to:
- Our flagship Clinician-Scientist Initiative: Offering start-up funding and stipends for the first three years of new clinician-scientists’ careers, positioning them to succeed in the largest provincial competitions; and awarding professorships for outstanding senior clinician-scientists
- Program support: Providing administrative, finance and communications support to enhance the success of large grant applications, emerging translational teams and research centres
The School of Biomedical Sciences
In 2020, the Faculty launched a new School of Biomedical Sciences, a powerhouse of research, graduate training and discovery.
Your gift will support:
- Collaborative research initiatives: Retaining top-notch technical staff, managing large-scale datasets, and harnessing AI and other tools to drive breakthroughs in personalized medicine
- Equity and community engagement: Raising the School’s profile through public events, social media, and outreach initiatives in French and English
- The Educational Delivery and Graduate Experience (EDGE) Initiative: A new project to integrate industry knowledge and skills into graduate programs
- Experiential learning: Creating new opportunities for hands-on learning through clinical, government and industry partners
- Innovation and entrepreneurship: Providing seed funding and related support for innovation and curriculum development and commercialization
Healthy people, healthy planet
From infectious disease to climate change, global health security requires a truly interdisciplinary approach. At the School of Population and Global Health (SPGH), we bridge silos to bring together world-class expertise in epidemiology and biostatistics, health and social policy, medical ethics, and occupational and environmental health.
With your support for the School of Population and Global Health, we can grow our capacity to help build healthy, sustainable and resilient communities while reducing health disparities in Canada and around the world.
Your gift will support:
- Our new Centre for Climate Change and Health, a world-leading interdisciplinary hub dedicated to solving urgent global environmental problems that affect human health and wellbeing
- McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health
- Undergraduate and graduate programs in global health
Healthcare on the front lines
As healthcare systems reach a breaking point, the Faculty is training more healthcare professionals than ever before. With your support, we can enhance professional training to strengthen frontline healthcare. You can make a difference by giving to:
- The Ingram School of Nursing: Strengthening our Integrated Bachelor of Nursing program, nurse practitioner-led clinics, and Executive Leadership Program
- The School of Physical and Occupational Therapy: Upgrading our facilities to train top-notch rehabilitation science professionals
- The School of Medicine: Offering training and clinical placements in regional and rural settings, and supporting initiatives that promote Family Medicine
- Community-based learning opportunities such as the Mobile Pediatric Clinic and nurse-led clinics in homeless shelters
- Innovative online training opportunities
- Indigenous healthcare: Supporting community partnerships, professors of practice and the recruitment of Indigenous youth to health professions