Canadian Harkness Fellowships

The Canadian Harkness Fellowship Award enables the best and brightest Canadian thinkers and leaders to participate in the Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice, a core program of The Commonwealth Fund's International Program in Health Policy and Innovation.

The Commonwealth Fund, in collaboration with CFHI, offers a unique opportunity for promising mid-career professionals — academic researchers, government policy-makers, clinical leaders, senior hospital managers and journalists — to spend a year in the United States studying healthcare delivery system reforms and critical issues on the health policy agenda in both the U.S. and Canada.

Canadian Harkness Fellows bring these lessons back to Canada and continue to work with CFHI (as faculty, speakers, attendees at key thought-leadership events) to inform and develop programming to accelerate health system transformation.