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Kathryn Aberle, SFU Media & Public Relations, 604.291.3929, aberle@sfu.ca
Paul Woolley, Communications Director, Ministry of Advanced Education, 250.952.6508 (office), 250.213.1171 (cell)
March 23, 2005
A $41.5-million health sciences building at Simon Fraser University's Burnaby campus will bring together a variety of disciplines related to public health and provide classroom and lab space for 800 students, Advanced Education Minister Ida Chong announced today.
“Our 25,000-seat expansion has provided SFU with 3,000 new student spaces, and 800 of them will be accommodated by the health sciences building when it opens in 2007,” said Chong. “We're fully funding the province's share of the new seats around B.C., and we're also investing $800 million over the next three years in facilities to make room for the added students who will have access to B.C.'s excellent post-secondary system through this expansion.”
The building will house SFU's faculty of health sciences, established in September 2004 to focus on population and public health, with the goal of reducing the amount of disease, premature death and disability in a population through prevention programs.
The provincial government is providing $34.5 million for design and construction of the 11,758-square-metre health sciences building, which will contain classrooms, teaching and research labs, and academic support space. The university is contributing $7 million.
“The health sciences building will house innovative research and teaching programs in public and population health, infectious and chronic disease control, and global health management, drawing on expertise in complementary disciplines as diverse as geography, communications, epidemiology, molecular biology and administration,” said SFU president Michael Stevenson. “They will build on SFU's long and respected history of health research and education to bridge issues of science, public policy and health-care practice.”
The faculty of health sciences first program, starting this September, is a masters of science in population and public health, designed to prepare established professionals and recent graduates for positions of leadership in health research and in the health professions to meet a rapidly growing need in health care across Canada. PhD and undergraduate programs will be added in coming years.
“Simon Fraser University's faculty of health sciences will offer public health programs that are unique in Canada,” said Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy. “As one of Burnaby's major employers, SFU makes a huge contribution to our community. Through the health sciences faculty, SFU's contributions will extend even further.”
Construction of the new building is scheduled to begin in spring of 2006. Funding is provided from the Ministry of Advanced Education's regular capital budget.
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Websites:
Faculty of Health Sciences: www.fhs.sfu.ca/
Achieve B.C.: www.achievebc.ca/
Government of B.C.: www.gov.bc.ca
“Our 25,000-seat expansion has provided SFU with 3,000 new student spaces, and 800 of them will be accommodated by the health sciences building when it opens in 2007,” said Chong. “We're fully funding the province's share of the new seats around B.C., and we're also investing $800 million over the next three years in facilities to make room for the added students who will have access to B.C.'s excellent post-secondary system through this expansion.”
The building will house SFU's faculty of health sciences, established in September 2004 to focus on population and public health, with the goal of reducing the amount of disease, premature death and disability in a population through prevention programs.
The provincial government is providing $34.5 million for design and construction of the 11,758-square-metre health sciences building, which will contain classrooms, teaching and research labs, and academic support space. The university is contributing $7 million.
“The health sciences building will house innovative research and teaching programs in public and population health, infectious and chronic disease control, and global health management, drawing on expertise in complementary disciplines as diverse as geography, communications, epidemiology, molecular biology and administration,” said SFU president Michael Stevenson. “They will build on SFU's long and respected history of health research and education to bridge issues of science, public policy and health-care practice.”
The faculty of health sciences first program, starting this September, is a masters of science in population and public health, designed to prepare established professionals and recent graduates for positions of leadership in health research and in the health professions to meet a rapidly growing need in health care across Canada. PhD and undergraduate programs will be added in coming years.
“Simon Fraser University's faculty of health sciences will offer public health programs that are unique in Canada,” said Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy. “As one of Burnaby's major employers, SFU makes a huge contribution to our community. Through the health sciences faculty, SFU's contributions will extend even further.”
Construction of the new building is scheduled to begin in spring of 2006. Funding is provided from the Ministry of Advanced Education's regular capital budget.
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Websites:
Faculty of Health Sciences: www.fhs.sfu.ca/
Achieve B.C.: www.achievebc.ca/
Government of B.C.: www.gov.bc.ca