• Diversity in Health Care Bursaries

    Diversity in Health Care Bursaries

    Investing in tomorrow’s healthcare professionals.

Supporting a healthcare system that is representative of the communities it serves.

Diversity in Health Care
An investment in the future

Education is an investment in stronger, more diverse healthcare teams that better reflect the many communities served by the QEII Health Sciences Centre. The QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursary helps remove barriers for students – who are African Nova Scotian/Black, Indigenous, immigrants, 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or students with disabilities – pursuing a career in health care and, in turn, aligns healthcare professionals with the community’s cultural profile.

Education creates possibility and by investing in education and training, the QEII attracts and maintains the best healthcare professionals in the country and, often, the world.

Diversity in Health Care
Since 2018, the QEII Foundation has provided Diversity in Health Care Bursaries to 58 post-secondary students studying in a healthcare field.
Impact story
Meet Zeina Atwi, a 2018 QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursary recipient

Now that the QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursary program has been in place for several years, former recipients are joining Nova Scotia Health's workforce, including at the QEII Health Sciences Centre. Not only is this creating a richer work environment but, most importantly, patients from diverse communities are seeing themselves reflected in the healthcare teams providing care and service.

Zeina Atwi, a 2018 QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursary recipient, is now a respiratory therapist at the QEII. Born in Lebanon, Zeina says the bursary inspired her to think more about diversity and its impact on healthcare delivery. Since beginning her role at the QEII, Zeina has been able to communicate with, and bring a sense of calm to, patients in critical situations by speaking Arabic – their shared mother language.

Zeina Atwi, a 2018 QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursary recipient

Your support of the QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursaries will help students achieve their dreams of becoming healthcare professionals and help ensure compassionate and inclusive care for every Atlantic Canadian who visits the QEII.

Help fund QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursaries.

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Applications are now open for our 2021 bursaries! To learn more and apply for a QEII Foundation Diversity in Health Care Bursary, click here.