The Collaborative Graduate Program in Musculoskeletal Health Research will provide transdisciplinary research training. Discovery research will continue to provide a foundation for advancing knowledge, but a collaborative, transdisciplinary research paradigm will accelerate the translation of new knowledge into improvements in disease prevention, advances in health care, more effective public policies and opportunities for commercialization.

The program will develop scientists with the research and leadership skills necessary to build transdisciplinary research teams focusing on integrated therapeutic, surgical and rehabilitative approaches for the management of bone and joint diseases. Specifically, the objectives are:

• to enhance the number of trainees involved in transdisciplinary musculoskeletal health research,
• to support the career advancement of trainees, and
• to foster the development of future leaders in Canadian healthcare, science and technology.