Richard Koestner, University of Ottawa

Research

Big Data Health Equity Health Services Language Linguistic Minorities

Latest funding

Advancing Equitable Access to Healthcare for Quebec English-Speaking Minority Communities
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$1,455,119

Advancing Equitable Access to Healthcare for Quebec English-Speaking Minority Communities

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Team Grant: OLMC in Health Research - English speaking OLMC

Principal investigators: Karunananthan, Sathya; Montour, Derek; Auger, Nathalie; Bergman, Howard; Koestner, Richard; Loiselle, Carmen G; Tanuseputro, Peter

Keywords: Big Data; Health Equity; Health Services; Language; Linguistic Minorities

$1,455,119

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Big Data Dear Professor Koestner, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on big data connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Advancing Equitable Access to Healthcare for Quebec English-Speaking Minority Communities" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]