Collège Boréal and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine will soon be doing research aimed at improving access to health services for French-speaking minority communities in their own language.
It recently received funding approval from the Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS). The research will be conducted at the French River Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic.
This is the first time CNFS has granted research funding to a Canadian college.
“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,” Collège Boréal president Denis Hubert-Dustrisac said, in a press 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.”
Posted by Jenny Jelen
