Descending from the university Ivory Tower: training future researchers to address applied public health problems

A renewed vision of public health research training is needed to ensure that future researchers will address complex “real-life” public health (PH) problems. The Strategic Training Program in Transdisciplinary Research on Public Health Interventions : Promotion, Prevention and Public Policy (4P) is an unique research training initiative based on a partnership of Quebec (Canada) universities and the PH milieu. Since 2003, the Program has recruited and funded 60 graduate students from various …