The Collaborative Program in Public Health Policy will contribute to the creation of the next generation of public health policy research leaders by teaching students to be creative agents for change, and better able to address the health issues and challenges of today and tomorrow. Graduate students will be provided with real world skills to address the complex and demanding task of public health policy by fostering insight into a wide array of legislative and regulatory interventions, administrative practices, financing and funding decisions, and various forms of soft law that operate at the international, federal, provincial and municipal levels. The program will give students the capacity to engage in current events and contribute to the development, refinement and evaluation of policies to address society’s pressing and emerging public health priorities. It will be cross-disciplinary, bringing together a broad range of disciplines, substantive foci, and theoretical and methodological underpinnings, to synergistically build an engaged community of practice of students and faculty focused on public health policy.