Trainees are the future of Public Health and the focus for this year’s O’Brien Institute UCalgary Giving Day

The University’s annual Giving Day affords the O’Brien Institute an opportunity to raise money in support of public health. The past year has shown us just how important public health is and how public health research saves lives. To help keep these critical research projects going, all funds donated to the O’Brien Institute during this year’s UCalgary Giving Day will support trainees.

When you make a Giving Day donation, your gift can go twice as far ­– but only if you give early. All gifts up to $2,500 will be matched, dollar for dollar, while matching funds last – this year’s matching allocation is estimated to be exhausted in the first week of April. Over and above this initial University match, funds for trainees get leveraged even further (up to 400 per cent) through Cumming School of Medicine and O’Brien Institute matching programs, multiplying the impact of your gift. As a result, for every dollar you give, up to eight dollars are made available to support trainees.

Trainees are our future and a critical component of the high-quality research conducted by O’Brien Institute members. Funds to hire and pay for trainees are a force multiplier, while the inability to secure such funds can in many cases end projects before they begin. That is why this Giving Day, all matched funds coming to the Institute will be focused on trainees.

Through your support, we are working toward being the Institute you need us to be, and toward training the next generation of public health researchers and practitioners. Please join us in fostering impactful public health research by making your gift today. DONATE HERE and consider sharing this message with friends and associates who are similarly invested in public health.
The O'Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary supports excellence in population health and health services research, while realizing the benefits of such research by using that knowledge to inform community, policy and health practice stakeholders. 

The Institute's membership includes more than 500 multidisciplinary researchers from 13 Cumming School of Medicine departments, nine additional University of Calgary faculties, including Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Kinesiology and Arts; health professionals in Alberta Health Services; and, research users and policy makers from municipal and provincial institutions. As an Institute, we share a vision of "better health and health care," reflecting our two priority research areas of Improved Population Health and Enhanced Health Systems Performance. 

The Institute's success in brokering broader external relationships with provincial and national interest groups, policy makers, research agencies, the media, philanthropists, and community stakeholders, further extends the reach and impact of our members' significant research outputs.