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Making a difference.
That is what the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation strives toward every day, by fostering the development of our Scholars who use their knowledge and skills as engaged leaders to help make a difference in their communities, and in the world.
The Foundation is proud to build strong and meaningful relationships with organizations that share our common goals of greater inclusion, diversity, innovation and sustainability.
That is what the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation strives toward every day, by fostering the development of our Scholars who use their knowledge and skills as engaged leaders to help make a difference in their communities, and in the world.
The Foundation is proud to build strong and meaningful relationships with organizations that share our common goals of greater inclusion, diversity, innovation and sustainability.
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation names 2019 Scholars
20 outstanding Scholars first to enter the Foundation’s new Leadership Program
This year, a record 20 Scholars have been named as recipients of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s unique and bold doctoral scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.
This year, a record 20 Scholars have been named as recipients of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s unique and bold doctoral scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.
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The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation appoints 2019 Fellows
This year, the Foundation embarks on a new chapter, as we launch the Institutes of Engaged Leadership. This program will support the development of leadership skills among the Foundation’s Scholars, helping them to increase the impact of their research in their institutions and communities.
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation appoints 2019 Mentors
This year’s Mentors are an outstanding group of accomplished real-world actors who bring a rich and diverse set of experiences to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation community. Mentors play a critical role supporting our Scholars with valuable advice and insights.
One Year Already
This has been an extraordinary year in the life of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
July 9th, 2019 marks one year since Pascale Fournier officially became President & CEO with a mandate to innovate the programs of the Foundation. Every member of the Foundation’s community can be proud of the strides the Foundation has taken toward sharpening its focus on the development of Scholars as engaged leaders. The innovation of our programs brings into sharper focus the mission of the Foundation: to support and empower our Scholars so they can have meaningful impact and bring positive change in the world.
Many milestones have been met over the last twelve very busy and exhilarating months.
July 9th, 2019 marks one year since Pascale Fournier officially became President & CEO with a mandate to innovate the programs of the Foundation. Every member of the Foundation’s community can be proud of the strides the Foundation has taken toward sharpening its focus on the development of Scholars as engaged leaders. The innovation of our programs brings into sharper focus the mission of the Foundation: to support and empower our Scholars so they can have meaningful impact and bring positive change in the world.
Many milestones have been met over the last twelve very busy and exhilarating months.
Lessons Learned From Te Urewera and Te Awa Tupua’s Guardianship
A tale from a visiting researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article was authored by 2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Stéphanie Roy
Thanks to my Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, I had the opportunity last spring to complete a two-month internship as a visiting researcher at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa, New Zealand. This was an invaluable opportunity for someone with a vast interest in environmental issues, as New Zealand possesses such a rich natural heritage.
This article was authored by 2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar Stéphanie Roy
Thanks to my Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, I had the opportunity last spring to complete a two-month internship as a visiting researcher at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa, New Zealand. This was an invaluable opportunity for someone with a vast interest in environmental issues, as New Zealand possesses such a rich natural heritage.
Gillian McKay: World Humanitarian Day
Gillian McKay is a 2016 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. From January to May 2019 Gillian was on leave from her program to support the World Health Organization (WHO) in the fight against an outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She reflects on her time there in this first-hand account:
People always ask me when I’m deploying out to Ebola outbreaks, “Aren’t you scared?” and the answer is usually, “No, not really, I’m pretty good at this”. Which I know must sound a bit strange: it’s odd to be good at a viral haemorrhagic fever. But after working for nine months on the big West African outbreak back in 2014 and 2015, and then doing my doctoral study on reproductive health during outbreaks of Ebola, it’s now very much my speciality. So, when I was asked to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the WHO to support the infection prevention and control team in the current Ebola outbreak, I thought I was right in my zone. Turns out, there is so little about stopping Ebola that is about technical solutions. It is almost entirely about local contextual factors, and I found the learning curve very steep given the unique circumstances of this outbreak.
The current outbreak is happening mostly in North-Kivu, an area of the DRC that has been experiencing conflict for more than 20 years. There are more than 100 armed groups, a deep mistrust of the Congolese government, and poor health infrastructure. Put together, these elements make fighting an outbreak of a deadly disease incredibly difficult.
We have new innovations that we didn’t have during the West Africa outbreak, including a very effective vaccine and experimental treatments to improve survival among those who have the disease. But these tools are only useful when the responders can access the people in need, and when sick people have enough confidence in the response and the health system to seek care. In a conflict-affected setting with a population that has been highly marginalized for years, neither of these things are guaranteed. A quote in a recent Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) report explains why it’s so hard to gain the trust and engagement of the local population for Ebola response activities:
“If you cared about us, you would ask us our priorities. My priority is security and making sure my children don't die from malaria or diarrhea. My priority is not Ebola. That is your priority.”
To try and build some trust between response workers and the community, one of my first tasks in DRC was to conduct a small study through series of discussions on how the response is impacting health workers, as well as the community. The results were both surprising and unsurprising. I hadn’t anticipated how scared and alone the health workers were feeling. They told me that they often feel like the enemy of the people because if someone comes to their facility with symptoms that could suggest Ebola (i.e. fever, vomiting, fatigue) they have to call the case investigation teams to come and assess whether the person in fact has Ebola. After doing this, the health workers can be threatened or attacked by local people, in retaliation for “collaborating” with the response.
People always ask me when I’m deploying out to Ebola outbreaks, “Aren’t you scared?” and the answer is usually, “No, not really, I’m pretty good at this”. Which I know must sound a bit strange: it’s odd to be good at a viral haemorrhagic fever. But after working for nine months on the big West African outbreak back in 2014 and 2015, and then doing my doctoral study on reproductive health during outbreaks of Ebola, it’s now very much my speciality. So, when I was asked to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the WHO to support the infection prevention and control team in the current Ebola outbreak, I thought I was right in my zone. Turns out, there is so little about stopping Ebola that is about technical solutions. It is almost entirely about local contextual factors, and I found the learning curve very steep given the unique circumstances of this outbreak.
The current outbreak is happening mostly in North-Kivu, an area of the DRC that has been experiencing conflict for more than 20 years. There are more than 100 armed groups, a deep mistrust of the Congolese government, and poor health infrastructure. Put together, these elements make fighting an outbreak of a deadly disease incredibly difficult.
We have new innovations that we didn’t have during the West Africa outbreak, including a very effective vaccine and experimental treatments to improve survival among those who have the disease. But these tools are only useful when the responders can access the people in need, and when sick people have enough confidence in the response and the health system to seek care. In a conflict-affected setting with a population that has been highly marginalized for years, neither of these things are guaranteed. A quote in a recent Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) report explains why it’s so hard to gain the trust and engagement of the local population for Ebola response activities:
“If you cared about us, you would ask us our priorities. My priority is security and making sure my children don't die from malaria or diarrhea. My priority is not Ebola. That is your priority.”
To try and build some trust between response workers and the community, one of my first tasks in DRC was to conduct a small study through series of discussions on how the response is impacting health workers, as well as the community. The results were both surprising and unsurprising. I hadn’t anticipated how scared and alone the health workers were feeling. They told me that they often feel like the enemy of the people because if someone comes to their facility with symptoms that could suggest Ebola (i.e. fever, vomiting, fatigue) they have to call the case investigation teams to come and assess whether the person in fact has Ebola. After doing this, the health workers can be threatened or attacked by local people, in retaliation for “collaborating” with the response.
International Day of Charity
Each year, the Foundation selects Mentors who are real-world actors from all areas of endeavour and who devote themselves to developing the capacity for engaged leadership among Scholars.
On the International Day of Charity, we are shining a spotlight on three Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Mentors whose dedication to their areas of interest and expertise go the extra mile.
2018 Mentor André Picard is the Globe & Mail Health Columnist and author of A Call to Alms: The New Face Of Charity In Canada. In 2011, he received the CFPC/Scotiabank Family Medicine Lectureship Award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in which he donated the $15,000 prize money to Doctors Without Borders, the charity of his choice. In 2012, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to improving health care in Canada.
His advocacy work has been honoured by a number of consumer health groups, including Safe Kids Canada, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and the Canadian Hearing Society.
Picard has participated in a number of professional organizations and non-profit groups and is a former member of the advisory committees of the Canadian Institute for Child Health, Active Healthy Kids Canada, Centraide/United Way Montréal, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
2019 Mentor Lia Grimanis is the Founder and CEO of Up With Women, a growing registered charity dedicated to helping recently homeless and at-risk women build sustainable, prosperous careers and businesses with the aim of permanently exiting poverty. Her work in the homelessness sector is informed by lived experience as an abuse survivor and formerly homeless autistic teen. Grimanis climbed the corporate ladder to become Regional Head of Financial Services, Americas for a division of the global technology firm TIBCO. She now manages Up With Women’s career program fulltime.
“Conducting our lives with purpose & meaning has been found to increase resilience, to reduce anxiety and depression and increase our overall sense of vitality. We were born to take care of each other.”
We are also shining a spotlight on 2018 Mentor Mary Anne Chambers. Chambers has personally funded scholarships for more than 35 university and college students in Ontario. From 2007 to 2017, in partnership with University of Toronto Scarborough, she sponsored and served as an adviser for the IMANI Academic Mentorship Program, which has benefitted hundreds of middle- and high-school students.
Chambers has served on the boards of many not-for-profit organizations including Cuso International, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education, the United Way of Canada, United Way Toronto, YMCA Toronto, and the Rouge Valley Health System.
She has also been named to the Order of Ontario and is a recipient of the Governor General of Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal.
International days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity.
On the International Day of Charity, we are shining a spotlight on three Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Mentors whose dedication to their areas of interest and expertise go the extra mile.
2018 Mentor André Picard is the Globe & Mail Health Columnist and author of A Call to Alms: The New Face Of Charity In Canada. In 2011, he received the CFPC/Scotiabank Family Medicine Lectureship Award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in which he donated the $15,000 prize money to Doctors Without Borders, the charity of his choice. In 2012, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to improving health care in Canada.
His advocacy work has been honoured by a number of consumer health groups, including Safe Kids Canada, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and the Canadian Hearing Society.
Picard has participated in a number of professional organizations and non-profit groups and is a former member of the advisory committees of the Canadian Institute for Child Health, Active Healthy Kids Canada, Centraide/United Way Montréal, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
2019 Mentor Lia Grimanis is the Founder and CEO of Up With Women, a growing registered charity dedicated to helping recently homeless and at-risk women build sustainable, prosperous careers and businesses with the aim of permanently exiting poverty. Her work in the homelessness sector is informed by lived experience as an abuse survivor and formerly homeless autistic teen. Grimanis climbed the corporate ladder to become Regional Head of Financial Services, Americas for a division of the global technology firm TIBCO. She now manages Up With Women’s career program fulltime.
“Conducting our lives with purpose & meaning has been found to increase resilience, to reduce anxiety and depression and increase our overall sense of vitality. We were born to take care of each other.”
We are also shining a spotlight on 2018 Mentor Mary Anne Chambers. Chambers has personally funded scholarships for more than 35 university and college students in Ontario. From 2007 to 2017, in partnership with University of Toronto Scarborough, she sponsored and served as an adviser for the IMANI Academic Mentorship Program, which has benefitted hundreds of middle- and high-school students.
Chambers has served on the boards of many not-for-profit organizations including Cuso International, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education, the United Way of Canada, United Way Toronto, YMCA Toronto, and the Rouge Valley Health System.
She has also been named to the Order of Ontario and is a recipient of the Governor General of Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal.
International days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity.
Benjamin Gagnon Chainey honors Hervé Guibert
2017 Scholar Benjamin Gagnon Chainey has co-organized an international study day of Hervé Guibert, a multidisciplinary writer who died in 1991.
Almost 30 years after his death, Hervé Guibert who was HIV-positive is one of the central authors of Benjamin Gagnon Chainey’s doctoral research that looks at the relationship between literature, sexual and cultural identities, and the practice of care and medicine.
This study day will bring together a community of intellectuals, writers, and researchers specializing in Guibert's work including renowned Montreal hematologist, Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy of the MUHC.
The free event takes place on September 16th, 2019 at the University of Montreal.
The full program is available here.
Almost 30 years after his death, Hervé Guibert who was HIV-positive is one of the central authors of Benjamin Gagnon Chainey’s doctoral research that looks at the relationship between literature, sexual and cultural identities, and the practice of care and medicine.
This study day will bring together a community of intellectuals, writers, and researchers specializing in Guibert's work including renowned Montreal hematologist, Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy of the MUHC.
The free event takes place on September 16th, 2019 at the University of Montreal.
The full program is available here.