Western University has become the hub of a provincial network of Indigenous health training guided by a Community Advisory and Elders Council, who support the program in its mission to serve community research needs and capacities. The Indigenous Mentorship Network Program (IMNP), with 13 research institutions and a team of 70 researchers, trainees and community collaborators — more than half of whom are Indigenous — aims to grow and support community-based health research and training opportunities for Indigenous trainees and researchers across Ontario.

IMNP-Ontario will provide scholarships, seed grants, webinars, research innovation and publishing opportunities to trainees, postdoctoral fellows and new investigators, while hundreds of young researchers will receive training through the program.