Supporting health researchers to come to Ontario, to stay, and to succeed

J A N u A r y. 2 0 0 9 Supporting Health Researchers To Come To Ontario, To Stay, and To Succeed The Ontario government is asked to contribute to building a stable infrastructure of knowledge and dedication to make Ontario’s Innovation Agenda a success and to improve health care for Ontarians. [...] What is not commonly understood is that 80% of the innovative health research and graduate student training in Ontario belongs to researchers in our academic hospitals and their research institutes. [...] Our capacity to recruit and retain is in jeopardy due to the lack of a strategic and collaborative provincial approach to investment in health research human resources. [...] CAHO’s Council of Ontario Research Directors (CORD) has identified the current salary support requirements at our research institutes and hospitals to be close to $100 million.i As academic hospitals and research institutes, we are committed to continuing to do our part in supporting our researchers. [...] Supporting HealtH reSearcHerS to come to ontario, to Stay, and to Succeed Researchers are the Engine in our Health Research Enterprise •. As the fourth largest biomedical research centre in North America, Ontario has 10,000 health researchers working within its academic hospitals.