Bursaries

The Isabel Loucks Foster Public Health Bursary fund has been set up to provide bursary funding for public health post-graduate studies.

The funds are managed by the Vancouver Foundation and the Bursary funds will be released to a successful applicant(s) annually on the recommendation of the Health Officers’ Council.  The Health Officers’ Council is comprised of the Medical Health Officers and public health physicians of British Columbia.

This bursary was established by The Associated Boards of Health with funds which they had raised prior to their dissolution in 1997.  The bursary is named in honour of Dr. Ken Benson who, during a long career in public health in British Columbia, was a Medical Officer of Health, an Associate Deputy Minister and public health consultant to the Associated Boards of Health of British Columbia.

The funds are managed by the Vancouver Foundation and the Bursary funds will be released to a successful applicant(s) annually on the recommendation of the Health Officers’ Council.  The Health Officers’ Council is comprised of the Medical Health Officers and public health physicians of British Columbia.