Graduate students awarded Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship, national essay competition prize

Two students in the School of Population and Public Health’s Master of Public Health program were awarded this week for their academic achievements. 
 
UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies awarded Miranda Kelly a 12-month Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship for the academic year 2010/2011. She will receive a $10,000 Pacific Century Graduate Scholarship, a $7,000 Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship and tuition.
 
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Christine Soon will receive an award from the Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation’s 2010 Student Essay Competition at next week’s Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research conference. The Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation awards three prizes annually for the best student essay submissions addressing any topic in health services or health policy. Soon’s paper, Remuneration of Primary Care Physicians-Steps towards Reform, won for the Masters level.

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